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Free yeast in bottle conditioned beer

Started by Tom, December 22, 2017, 09:58:29 PM

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Tom

Merry Christmas.

Since it's the season of receiving beer from the inlaws, now seems like a good time to bring up culturing yeast from bottle conditioned beers. I won't go into detail because it's all in the WIKI (probably), and plenty of information abounds online. But I'd like to share with you that Fuller's Bengal Lancer (also known by a number, IIRC) cultures up wonderfully. Didn't attenuate very low for me, but the beer tasted delicious, and the ferment was a delight to behold. I've a bottle of Proper Job here that apparently uses the primary strain to condition. Might give that a go.

So, any more out there that you've tried and tested? Any interesting Irish ones?

TheSumOfAllBeers

Proper Job & lancer are well known in culturing circles, but I would struggle to think of a single Irish brewery who is using a strain unique enough to bother with.

Rosmucman

The bretts in Crooked Stave's beers cultures up nicely,I've done it a few times