Yeast vials....should I be keeping these things or just chucking them.... My inner pack-rat wants to keep 'em cause they are so neat.....What can I use them for, if anything....?
if they are white lab vials
you can save em up to turn in for brew stuff look at white labs website
if you save up 5000 of em the owner of white labs will come to your house with a brand new all grain setup and brew a batch with you
and you get to keep the AG setup
I think for 5000 vials, Chris White should pay for the batch too.
I keep mine over 1 year sometimes. Really depends on the style. Sometimes I'll use 2 vials for a starter.That is beautiful... How long are you able to keep those vials for? You talking about a 3-6 month timeframe max? Funny thing is we're trying to keep our own banks so we don't have to buy new yeast, but then where would we get the bottles from?
if they are white lab vials
you can save em up to turn in for brew stuff look at white labs website
if you save up 5000 of em the owner of white labs will come to your house with a brand new all grain setup and brew a batch with you
and you get to keep the AG setup
I didn't see anything about him bringing the equipment and you keeping it.he brings the yeast - where do you see that he brings an AG setup?
Do you actually reuse those vials for slants? Are they able to be autoclaved? I have a few laying around waiting for something, but never thought of using them for slants.
If you get into yeast harvesting, those vials come in quite handy.
Fratermus... you said that you have pressure canned on of your vials. Could you possibly explain that a little more in detail? I know how canning works, but when working with vials I've heard that you don't screw the cap on all the way. When do you actually get around to screwing the cap all the way on.
Basically, I'd like to get some 5ml vials and put small amounts of wort in them for building up from dishes or slants. I'm just curious how you know if the sterilization was successful. With jars, you can tell by the popped top, but how do you tell with vials?
The time and pressure required for sterilization varies by the stuff being sterilized and the volume/shape of the container, but for wort in small containers 15#/15mins seems to come up frequently in the literature.
Silly FYI but did you know what these vials are actually intended for?
They're 2 liter soda bottles! Since large 2L bottles would be difficult to ship, they are made like that and each bottling plant has a machine that blows them up. Pretty cool! I learned this from someone I met that worked for Coke!
Silly FYI but did you know what these vials are actually intended for?
They're 2 liter soda bottles! Since large 2L bottles would be difficult to ship, they are made like that and each bottling plant has a machine that blows them up. Pretty cool! I learned this from someone I met that worked for Coke!
They are called 'preforms' in the industry and they are VERY cheap if you don't buy them from someone who has re-labeled them for some niche use (like yeast culturing). I bought a case of 100 for under $20 with the intention of using them for geocaching and some chemistry fun, but now I'm envisioning a huge yeast farm.I had been in one of those factories before, and always wondered were these the same little "slugs" (I think that's what they call them) that I saw!
They are called 'preforms' in the industry and they are VERY cheap if you don't buy them from someone who has re-labeled them for some niche use (like yeast culturing). I bought a case of 100 for under $20 with the intention of using them for geocaching and some chemistry fun, but now I'm envisioning a huge yeast farm.
I am very interested where you picked up these 'preforms'
Basically, I am looking for vials equal to the White Lab vials. I use 8oz ball jars for yeast, but I think the vials would be easier
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