BillTheSlink
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Anyone know who caries this line, hopefully near Ohio and not in the deep south or out west? I am really in need of CL-450.
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BillTheSlink
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Aw shucks! After digging and digging through pages on Yahoo I found it went out of business around '04. I had a recipe that swore by it. Even said it was much better than the Wyeast and WhiteLabs equivalent.
camiller
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This guy http://micrap.selfip.com:81/BrewtekYeastinfo.htm appears to have it in his personal yeast ranch and seems willing to share.
I also found a homebrew club in Florida that has a club yeast bank with CL-450
http://www.emeraldcoastbeer.com/docs/HBUYeastBank.htm
You might try contacting them and working something out.
I also found a homebrew club in Florida that has a club yeast bank with CL-450
http://www.emeraldcoastbeer.com/docs/HBUYeastBank.htm
You might try contacting them and working something out.
bill2penn
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This is my page Brewtek page
http://micrap.selfip.com:81/BrewtekYeastinfo.htm
and here is Jim Graham's page of yeast slants.
http://www.jstrack.org/brewing/yeast.html (scroll down to his yeast bank listing).
Jim and I have been trading a lot. I have spent many, many hours looking for these old Brewtek Strains.
CL-450 (Kolsch) is a great yeast. It's much more flocculant that the Wyeast or White lab strains.
I am happy to share my Brewtek strains with others as long as you would be willing to do the same once you get it. You need to know how to yeast ranch, or at least how to step up from small slants. I use small (2 mL) glass vials as mailing slants. PM me if you are interested.
Bill
http://micrap.selfip.com:81/BrewtekYeastinfo.htm
and here is Jim Graham's page of yeast slants.
http://www.jstrack.org/brewing/yeast.html (scroll down to his yeast bank listing).
Jim and I have been trading a lot. I have spent many, many hours looking for these old Brewtek Strains.
CL-450 (Kolsch) is a great yeast. It's much more flocculant that the Wyeast or White lab strains.
I am happy to share my Brewtek strains with others as long as you would be willing to do the same once you get it. You need to know how to yeast ranch, or at least how to step up from small slants. I use small (2 mL) glass vials as mailing slants. PM me if you are interested.
Bill
If you're still looking for CL-450, I have it in my yeast bank. I can also put you in
contact with a fellow brewer who has every strain that I have (swaps, etc....we
semi-jokingly refer to each other's yeast banks as off-site backups)---he's in Penn.
(I'm in NW Florida).
As for CL-450 vs Wyeast's Kolschbier yeast (or White Labs), a friend of mine
is a professional brewer, and he flatly rejected Wyeast and White Labs for a
Kolschbier yeast, and we finally got a good culture of CL-450. One of the
reasons he mentioned (the one I remember w/o having to dig out the old
e-mails) is flocculation---he said CL-450 was the only one flocculant enough
to give him the bright, clear, unfiltered Kolsch he needed. As always, I listen
to him (he taught me about 99% of what I know about brewing, and I'm still
learning from him...one new topic after another).
My yeastbank listing is at http://www.jstrack.org/brewing/yeastbank.txt, and is
directly linked from my yeast pages at http://www.jstrack.org/brewing/yeast.html
Just let me know.
Btw, if anyone has a good, stable CL-690, mine is dead. It was cultured from a
weak slant to begin with, and after giving me one final brew, it gave up. I would
REALLY love to have this one back! Same question, for CL-50.
contact with a fellow brewer who has every strain that I have (swaps, etc....we
semi-jokingly refer to each other's yeast banks as off-site backups)---he's in Penn.
(I'm in NW Florida).
As for CL-450 vs Wyeast's Kolschbier yeast (or White Labs), a friend of mine
is a professional brewer, and he flatly rejected Wyeast and White Labs for a
Kolschbier yeast, and we finally got a good culture of CL-450. One of the
reasons he mentioned (the one I remember w/o having to dig out the old
e-mails) is flocculation---he said CL-450 was the only one flocculant enough
to give him the bright, clear, unfiltered Kolsch he needed. As always, I listen
to him (he taught me about 99% of what I know about brewing, and I'm still
learning from him...one new topic after another).
My yeastbank listing is at http://www.jstrack.org/brewing/yeastbank.txt, and is
directly linked from my yeast pages at http://www.jstrack.org/brewing/yeast.html
Just let me know.
Btw, if anyone has a good, stable CL-690, mine is dead. It was cultured from a
weak slant to begin with, and after giving me one final brew, it gave up. I would
REALLY love to have this one back! Same question, for CL-50.
Drunkenfool
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hey guys. I am in search of the brewtek cl 450 strain. Is anyone willing to share. Id even send a couple of prepared plates and shipping $ out to you for it and would welcome any other brewtek rarities that are as must have as this one is. I have made a kolsch with wlp and it just did not make the grade. I would be wiling to share with our local clubs as well.
bill2penn
Member
Al at East Coast Yeast now carries Brewtek CL-450. He has renamed it ECY21 Kolschbier. You can read about his yeast on his Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/East-Coast-Yeast/168646113149281?sk=infohttp://www.facebook.com/pages/East-Coast-Yeast/168646113149281?sk=info
Several of his other listings are also old Brewtek Strains that he has renamed.
Bill
brewski09
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Bill,
Thank you for the info. How did you find out about ECY's acquisition of some of the Brewtek yeast strains? Anyone able to acquire any CL-450 recently?
I am a member of the club (HBU, or HomeBrwers Underground), and the club does NOT have a yeast anymore, and hasn't for somewhere around 10 years. I keep trying to change that, but it hasn't happened, and from the looks of it, probably never will.
*I* have a yeast bank, but it's been too much to maintain, especially since my first cancer and its aftermath, so it is also offline right now, until I pick through and select ONLY my favorite strains, plate them out, and see what's still healthy. Then I'll be making a whole new yeast bank from what's still good.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.....
Later,
--jim
All of the above (partially quoted from original) is OUTDATED. My yeast bank was too large to maintain, given the limitations my first cancer inflicted upon me (both financial and physical). I will, very soon, be picking through it and selecting ONLY tgise strains that I use the most (or which I use, period, and are not easily replaced, such as several Brewtek strains), plating them out, and making new slants from those that grow at least one good, healthy colony on the plate. ALL of the rest, I don't trust, and will not be keeping. Most Wyeast strains I'm just going to re-start from a fresh sample by buying a smack pack from our brand new local homebrew shop. Or I might just buy it from them and not waste time with slants for those.
But for now, my yeast bank does not exist until I get it all sorted out.
Where did you get the ECY-21? I looked at love2brew and they don't seem to have any ECY in stock. Is there an internet site? Thanks.
brewski09
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I had purchased it from Love2Brew when it was in stock. It looks like you can order some stuff from Princeton Homebrew, but it appears to be a sizeable fee (assuming they ship a cooled container UPS or something quick) and a 6 bottle minimum. Check your inbox
aiptasia
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So, what are the best references for creating your own yeast bank? What does one read to learn how to do this?
brewski09
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https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/yeast-washing-illustrated-41768/
Just know there really are 101 pages and people really do put messages on there that say "subscribe" all the time. A great reference though
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/slanting-yeast-133103/
This is if you want to get a lot more technical about it. A good reference, but more than most people are going to need, IMHO.
To be honest, if I make a pale ale and will be making a bit IPA or Imperial IPA in the next couple of weeks, I just throw some of the yeast and trub into a sanitized mason jar and pitch it right in. I know you can't do that with the Kolsch yeast because of the risk of flavor contamination, but I do it with other beers all the time.
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