I fumbled around looking for a place on the forum to post this and ended up thinking i'll stick it here and Admin can move it to where it should be.
Can we have a yeast section on the forum please? :pray: :grin: I find yeast culturing and ranching almost as interesting as brewing itself. :ugeek:
As requested, offered and offer accepted i'll post 'My way' of how i deal with my liquid yeasts. I'm not trying to say do it exactly like this-this is just how i find it easiest. There's probably lots of things a real brewer would scorn but thus far the method serves me well and works. I'm sure you could easily adapt and improve it for yourself. Pretty much what i have done.
As all my yeasts come in from Aus, who have got them from USA, chances are that they haven't been kept in perfect conditions at all times. :nono: So rather than continually buying and importing my own liquid yeasts i get as much out of mine that i can. This means being able to re-use my yeast as many times as i like.
I find scooping out some of the krausen too time restrictive for me-my schedule is changing constantly. It's a great way to re-use top fermenting yeast though. I also find collecting the yeast cake, washing it and splitting it often doesn't fit in with my schedule. I have done both a few times and they seem to work well. I've done it to S04(dried) with good results too. And with Nottingham(dried) used on a 1080 wort.
First i'm going to post how i grow on a liquid yeast from a portion of the original. I split the original into 6. This is how to then grow that on again. Then in a few days/weeks i'll post what i do from the smack pack. Backwards i know :whistle: but i haven't got any smack packs at the minute. it's really similar anyway.
I'm just sorting my pic's out on Photoshop-correcting colour, sharpening slightly and converting to jpeg from RAW. I really should use my point and shoot cam but i enjoy my DSLR sooooo much. :grin:
Can we have a yeast section on the forum please? :pray: :grin: I find yeast culturing and ranching almost as interesting as brewing itself. :ugeek:
As requested, offered and offer accepted i'll post 'My way' of how i deal with my liquid yeasts. I'm not trying to say do it exactly like this-this is just how i find it easiest. There's probably lots of things a real brewer would scorn but thus far the method serves me well and works. I'm sure you could easily adapt and improve it for yourself. Pretty much what i have done.
As all my yeasts come in from Aus, who have got them from USA, chances are that they haven't been kept in perfect conditions at all times. :nono: So rather than continually buying and importing my own liquid yeasts i get as much out of mine that i can. This means being able to re-use my yeast as many times as i like.
I find scooping out some of the krausen too time restrictive for me-my schedule is changing constantly. It's a great way to re-use top fermenting yeast though. I also find collecting the yeast cake, washing it and splitting it often doesn't fit in with my schedule. I have done both a few times and they seem to work well. I've done it to S04(dried) with good results too. And with Nottingham(dried) used on a 1080 wort.
First i'm going to post how i grow on a liquid yeast from a portion of the original. I split the original into 6. This is how to then grow that on again. Then in a few days/weeks i'll post what i do from the smack pack. Backwards i know :whistle: but i haven't got any smack packs at the minute. it's really similar anyway.
I'm just sorting my pic's out on Photoshop-correcting colour, sharpening slightly and converting to jpeg from RAW. I really should use my point and shoot cam but i enjoy my DSLR sooooo much. :grin: