Grow your own Turbo Yeast??

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WilliBChrist

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The thought occured to me while I was watching my wild yeast bubble away this morning:

Would it be possible, to selectively breed a strain of yeast that's high-alcohol tolerent, and able to process the required amount a sugar in say, a couple of days, Simply by reusing yeast cakes with more and more sugar each batch??
 
i would love to hear if anyone else has tried this and how long it took. It could prove to be another facet of brewing to play around with...
 
I think that once my first batch of wild yeast mead has finished brewing, I'm going to split the yeast cake, and keep half as a 'House Yeast' and the other half I shall endevor to make into Turbo Yeast. :) I'll keep everyone posted on the results, but this sounds like a project that might take YEARS!
 

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