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Title says it all, I'm curious if there's ever been a home brewer to either isolate the yeast from finished beer or receive a culture and use it? I would like to get my hands on some and see how it acts. I tried searching all over and have come up with little to nothing.

I was bored and emptying the junk out of the ultrasonic cleaner while having a pint and decided to see if I could get a guinness like head out of homebrew without the fuss of nitrogen and restrictor faucets. Apparently you can. This is an irish red ale I have kegged (my first kegged beer) and...

So I've done 12 beers, 3 ciders, and 3 wines, and some spirits, mostly in the last few months. Only problem is I tend to keep my beer drinking to nights of binging with friends so most of my beer is given away. At the bar I'll usually drink a cocktail or a guiness but I enjoy brewing beer as it...

I have some first gen cultures I'd like to trade or give away. Shipping is cheap so its an easy way to give back to the community that I've been quietly trolling. I can supply them as wedges, slants, micro slants, plates, or mini/micro liquid starters. The micro sized are 5ml cryo vials and the...

Has anyone tried capping on top of a piece of parafilm as extra insurance when using questionable bottles like heineken or screw offs? I'm using a hand capper and have an unacceptable failure rate. Of course the usual advice would be use better bottles but I don't know anyone that drinks pop...