Northern Brewer
Landlord.
I bought one of these from Leyland HBS recently not really checking what it was, thinking it was probably a phial of yeast culture of several billion cells that just needed two days or so as a starter before pitching.
Well I boiled up some spray malt, cleaned and sterilised the flask etc. and then read the instructions. Its an agar "plate" in a small bottle, at an angle, hence the term slope. It has the yeast on the plate, you put some of the wort into to wash it off then stick it back in the flask and incubate. So likely to take some time, so not ready for yesterday's 65 litre brew which I used 2 packets of dried Nottingham for that I hastily dehydrated. They have quite a decent range of yeasts - never tried them before though.
So I'm thinking of incubating the yeast from the slope for a couple more days then sticking it into little phials I bought for the purpose and putting them in the fridge. Not done this before, any tips?
Cheers
NB
Well I boiled up some spray malt, cleaned and sterilised the flask etc. and then read the instructions. Its an agar "plate" in a small bottle, at an angle, hence the term slope. It has the yeast on the plate, you put some of the wort into to wash it off then stick it back in the flask and incubate. So likely to take some time, so not ready for yesterday's 65 litre brew which I used 2 packets of dried Nottingham for that I hastily dehydrated. They have quite a decent range of yeasts - never tried them before though.
So I'm thinking of incubating the yeast from the slope for a couple more days then sticking it into little phials I bought for the purpose and putting them in the fridge. Not done this before, any tips?
Cheers
NB
