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I'm looking at the recipe editor and its giving me amount of yeast to pitch as # "each". Each what?
You'll buy your yeast in various containers, like sachets, pouches, tubes, etc. So it's however many of those.
Each manufacturer puts a different amount of yeast into their container. That means checking with the manufacturer how many cells they're putting in their container and then using the yeast and pitching rate calculator to work out how many of each container you need for a particular batch. 6.2 containers is probably going to be too many, but it depends on the recipe.
@Ward Chillington is on the mark. Yeast producers package the yeast for use in the most common size batch, that of the 5 gallon bucket.What Mark said or you can just eyeball most of your 5 gallon batches with an abv around 4.5 to 5 % with an 11 gram sachet and get in the ballpark.
Yeast is a living creature and will try to adjust to the conditions.