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Bottle recovered yeast

1 year ago | Gun_Plumber (Member)

Good Evening everybody,

This week I have mainly been following GW's tips on recovering yeast from bottled conditioned beer. Just a dry run really as i've not got a brew to pitch them into.

I've had a dabble with Fullers 1845 and Brakspears triple. Both took a couple of days to kick off but seem to be working.

Has anyone successfully used bottle recovered yeast? Also is there a way to tell if they have gone wrong, by smell or appearance?

Cheers
Si

Planning: To drink/brew more home brew
Fermenting: GW's Timothy Taylors - Landlord AG

Conditioning: nowt

Maturing: GW's Fuller London Porter AG, GW's Gales Festival Mild AG

Drinking: Excellent English shop bought stuff with depth and character
that the Canadians cannot even imagine.

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Nath:

Posted 1 year ago by Moderator

I did this with some St Austall Proper Job as its bottle conditioned. I used about 6 bottles worth and made up the starter as per GW's. It started off fine and smelt great and looked fine, but at the ens there was some suspect deposits around the rim of the wort and it started to smell a wee bit funny. This may be due to the fact I left it a bit too long and kept on introducing air after it fermented.

I think Varnish may have done better but I cant quite remember as it was about a year ago! Im sure as long as your careful all will be fine.

Drinkin' - nowt, it's all gone

Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!

nathbrew@gmail.com

Greg:

Posted 1 year ago by Admin

I've not tried recovering yeast myself but I think its fairly easy if you have the right beer to start with (ie has a yeast which is capable of healthy recovery). You also need to be very careful with cleanliness.

I would step the starter up by making up a 10ml starter, ferment for 24hr then stepping up to 100ml then to 1 litre which should then give you enough yeast to pitch. Make sure you shake as often as possible to get plenty of oxygen into it to promote lots of healthy yeast.

Tony:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Another thing to remember - do a little research before you select your beer. Quite often the 'bottle conditioning' involves adding yeast specifically for the conditioning - meaning that you'll get that yeast rather than the yeast used to brew the beer!

Beer will get you through the times of no money better than money will get you through the times of no beer
(with grateful thanks to the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and slightly adapted)

alikocho:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Worth pointing out that 1845 is not bottle conditioned using Fuller's yeast strain, but a champagne yeast.

Fuller's yeast can be got hold of though - Wyeast 1968 or White Labs WLP002

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