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Pivzavod · 10-17-2009, 03:42 PM

Ever since I started harvesting yeast I have more yeast than I can use on my own. I have been rocking Wyeast 3942 (Belgian Wit) for a few batches now, recently collected and reused Wyeast 3711 (French Saison) and have Wyeast 3333 (German Wheat) that I only used for 2 batches. I liked the flavor of Wyeast 3068 (Weihenstephan Wheat) a lot more (more banana flavors) and want to get rid of 3333 and eventually buy 3068 and use that instead.

What I propose is you give me your empty White Labs yeast vials and I will fill one of them up with my 3333 yeast (2nd generation, harvested 2-3 months ago) and ship it to you. I keep my yeast in a big 1 gallon mason jar as well as pint mason jars and use a lot of my fridge space to accomplish that. I want to switch to using vials for storage and need 20+ to get started.

I recently got AHS membership and will be getting a White Labs vial every 2 months and will only have 3 vials that I will purchase on my own with the 6 months of membership. I need help!!!

**conpewter** · 10-17-2009, 04:15 PM

I don't buy white labs but you can just get the soda bottle blanks if you want

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/1367

probably can look around for a better price too.

Edit:
comes with a rack
http://www.sciencebobstore.com/products.php?product=Plastic-Test-Tubes-With-Rack

Pivzavod · 10-17-2009, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by conpewter

I don't buy white labs but you can just get the soda bottle blanks if you want

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/1367

probably can look around for a better price too.

Thanks I did find other vials for sale on the web, these only hold 60ml of liquid and you need ~100ml of yeast slurry. I was looking at 125ml vials I found on some site but I'd rather try to trade than purchase.

**conpewter** · 10-17-2009, 04:41 PM

Ah ok, if I ever get some white labs vials I'll keep you in mind

Scut_Monkey · 10-17-2009, 05:36 PM

Seems like a cool idea. I only have about 3 empty white labs containers but I'm saving them for my yeast purposes. Good idea though. I'm sure some will do a trade with you.

sd38 · 10-18-2009, 01:06 AM

I might have 10 or so laying around,if your interested.Im not sure on the number but i should have around that maybe more.

Pivzavod · 10-21-2009, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by sd38

I might have 10 or so laying around,if your interested.Im not sure on the number but i should have around that maybe more.

Let me know! I was out for a few days, went salmon fishing but now I'm back baby!!!

Bokonon · 10-21-2009, 04:30 PM

Just recently I ended up tossing out all my old white labs vials. I was saving them for some unknown purpose but realized that they were taking up too much space and I wasn't really going to do anything with them

There must have been 30-50 of them in that bag

I'll start saving them again but since I don't get to brew as often as I used to it will be a while before I get a decent quantity again.

Pivzavod · 10-21-2009, 04:47 PM

That sucks, if you still had them you alone would fullfill my need for vials for a long ass time. I would get some kind of custom made rack for them and keep them on the door side of my kegerator.

Bokonon · 10-21-2009, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Pivzavod

That sucks, if you still had them you alone would fullfill my need for vials for a long ass time. I would get some kind of custom made rack for them and keep them on the door side of my kegerator.

I might still have 5-6 in the fridge with saved yeast in them. I'll have to check when I head downstairs later.

What I did for my rack was just to take some pretty rigid foam I had laying around from some packing material and cut holes in them that were about the right size. Worked perfectly