Yeastie Boyz
A one act play by Revvy
Cast
HB) = Homebrewer
G) = Guest.
Scene, a living room, G and HB are hanging out watching the game.
HB) Hey you wanna try one of my beers?
G) Sure
HB grabs bottle, glass and bottle opener. Proceeds to open and pour beer properly.
HB) I dunno if you know this, but as opposed to BMC's this beer and most micro brews are alive?
G)Huh? Wha?
HB) They're still alive. See the macroswill makers pretty much kill their beers so they last on the shelf. They pasturize them and filter out the yeast, and to me, most of the flavor...that's why I like to brew, and like to go to brewpubs and stuff.
But these beers, and ones like Rogue, and Bell's don't filter, in fact the yeast is still in the bottle and that's how the beer gets carbonated.
B) Really?
HB holds up bottle to the light, showing the dregs.
HB) Yeah, see this stuff at the bottom? That's the yeast....notice how clear your beer is? If I had poured it in you beer it would have been cloudy, but I poured the beer til this stuff got to the shoulder of the bottle, leaving it behind.
HB knocks back the yeast dregs.
Actually the stuffs really good for you it's full of vitamin b and stuff. Sometimes I don't bother leaving it behind and just dump it in the bottle. And some beers like Wheats are meant to be cloudy with suspended yeast. There's different types of beer yeasts, and they give beers different tastes. Some yeast give the beer the flavor of Banana, or cloves.
Or like this beer here the yeast gives it this quality (Hb describes the yeast in the beer guest is drinking.) Can you taste it?
Some of us homebrewers actually capture the yeast from some of the beers, and grow our own cultures with them. Some are really awesome and hard to get.
G)Wow, I didn't know you knew so much about this stuff...cool.
HB) Thanks, didja know that the yeasts are so important to the Belgian brewers that guard their yeast like it was fort knox? Some of them take it so seriously that they actually filter out the strain they fermented with, and then replace it with a different one to bottle carb and condition them? They actually take out one strain (like the BMC'ers do) BUT they still add yeast at bottling time...it's that important to them.
G) What?
HB) Yeah and brewers and even some homebrewers who go to Belgian, actually try to steal samples of the yeast.
G) No ****?
HB) Yeah it's pretty wild, huh? Hey you wanna try another of my beers, maybe a wheat or a belgian that has a really yeasty character?
G) Yeah sure.
HB hands G a bottle, class and bottle openner
HB)Ok dude, I showed you how to pour to the shoulder of the bottle, so why don't you give it a try?
G) Cool! So will you teach me how to brew sometime?
HB) Yeah, I'm brewing this weekend, come on by Sat. Morning.
Smiles knowing he's converted another one to the 'darkside.'
G) SO can I make a beer like bud lite?
HB smacks G over the head with beer bottle
The End
(Just kidding about the last part)