Found Yeast Older than me!

So I told my dad I have gotten into homebrewing and handed him a beer from our first two batches. Much to my surprise he told me he homebrewed up until I was born. So fast forward a few weeks to tonight, we dig through our current basement to find what was left of his old equipment and found five packets of this:


The yeast is older than me! Just for ****s and giggles I am going to brew up a starter and see if i can get any activity out of them.


Here is other stuff I found and sorry about the clutter: (left to right: Dextrose, yeast packets, airlock, sodium bisulfite and two bench cappers in the back)


I just had fun going through this stuff and as well as all the unused bottle caps so I figured I would share!

Nice find!! Should be fun to feed them and harvest them. A true heirloom strain!!

That's pretty cool. I am interested to see what kind of beer you get from that yeast.

p.s. That bottle says Sodium Bisulfite, not Sodium Bicarbonate...

weirdboy said:

That's pretty cool. I am interested to see what kind of beer you get from that yeast.

p.s. That bottle says Sodium Bisulfite, not Sodium Bicarbonate...

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Haha nice catch! I didn't look at it too closely once he told me it was a sanitizer, I was more interested in the old Malt Extract labels.

Sounds like time to brew with dad! I know my dad and I had a great time brewing together last year when he came out from California.

3 Dog Brew said:

Sounds like time to brew with dad! I know my dad and I had a great time brewing together last year when he came out from California.

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Funny you should mention it because he said my first two batches were better than anything he ever brewed. He decided to fund the purchase of a fermenter (since he got rid of his plastic carboy 15 years ago) and a premade beer ingredient kit. He has moved to BCM beers for the last 20 years because the frugal part of his german blood proved greater than his beer-pallet part haha.

So I picked up some cleanser, a fermenting bucket and a German Style Light kit to brew whenever we get free time.

Good on ya! Can't wait to hear the stories of you guys brewing together. Keep a brew diary!