Whoo Hoo! Can I propigate this yeast from the bottle??

[howlinowl]

I bought myself a present today... A 750 ML bottle of Rogue Imperial IPA in the cool black ceramic flip-top bottle. Gotta plan a saturday sometime to spend some quality time with my new friend. Anyways... it says that it's fermented with "top fermenting pacman yeast"... should I be able to propigate this yeast to a pitchable amount?? I'm thinkin' maybe tryin' to brew myself my own batch of imp IPA. Dunno if they pasturize this or not....

Anyway, if I can tell the wife that I needed it to get the yeast, maybe I can justify the 14 dollar purchase price....

Allan

 

[Beerrific]

I am pretty sure you can as I am almost positive they would not put the yeast in their if they were going to turn around and pasteurize it. Others have propagated Pacman from bottles. It is fairly simple to do: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6-7.html

 

[sully]

i have had good results with getting yeast from shakespeare stout. a little dme in a pint of water goes into the bottle(after you pour and drink some of rogues finest) when that is done fermenting make a one gallon batch of something lite like a lite pale ale. when that is done fermenting you will have enough to use in a 5-6 gallon batch of whatever you like remember to use a blowoff tube cause pacman is freakin crazy. my fav yeast. just takes like two weeks to get. they need to seriously release this strain to us homebrewers. why cant we have the best?