Came across this whole process of yeast harvesting and thought it was a good thing to do and would like to get into doing it . then I started looking into more seen its possible to harvest some commerical beers .
Anyone ever tried it and what they use and the results?.
Great book out there for a reference called Yeast by Chris White (Brewcon 2015 speaker) of White Labs and Jamil Zainasheff (Heretic Brewing Company).
I would harvest quite alot of commercial sours and old bottles I come across aswell as build up yeast cultures for use in our brewery. Not as daunting as it first may seem and, as per all aspects of brewing, cleanliness is king.
I owe Shiny Shane alot of thanks for being able to do this!
Might look into that book , does all seem abit daunting like a lot could go wrong , but id say done correctly you could get yourself some good yeast strains .
The best. You get a yeast who has been trained in beer if you know what I mean. As opposed to the liquid vials (although fantastic) who have been trained in a lab.
Yeah do understand what your saying :) , I would imagine alot of the bigger brewerys would filter there beers so be no yeast left on the bottles?
Not sure but is the Fullers IPA yeast the same as the brewing yeast or a different strain used for bottling. :-\
Heard about that bottling yeast to and its not the primary yeast used in the fermenting, sierra nevada id like to try id say be a good strain of yeast , nice pale ale 2 :)
Not a bad wee list and give me some ideas, http://www.nada.kth.se/~alun/Beer/Bottle-Yeasts/
I have not seen 1845 for sale in a while but do love this beer. :)
Quote from: Tube on April 07, 2015, 09:47:58 PM
There are a few two readily available good ones: Fullers IPA (not LP) and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Both have good yeasts, one English style, one US-style. There are lots of other ones too, but just not so easy to get.
Are Sierra still using Chico?