I decided to try my hand at harvesting.

I'm still waiting for my first batch to properly bottle condition. So I crack open my last bottle of Bell's Expedition Stout. As I'm decanting, I notice the sediment and think; 'wait a minute, I can't let that go to waste!' I leave about a 1/4" of beer in the bottle, and pour in about 3oz of tap water and swirl. I dumped the concoction into a mason jar, sealed, and threw it in the fridge.

But a few minutes later, I found myself dying to try making a big culture out of the sample, so I go to work.

Starter:
1/2lb DME
1/2gal tap water

Bring water to boil, add DME. Cool to 67 degrees. Decant to growler, add yeast sample, and shake vigorously. Cap with a layer of tinfoil.

This was my first one, so I decided to play it safe by giving the beasties lots of room and food to plunder. I did all this about 5 hours ago.

Here's the growler now:



View of the bottom:



Growler cap beside to show scale:



Wow! I head no idea it would go this fast! And I got so little sediment from that bottle too! Is this what I should expect from bottle harvests in general?

If your pictures worked I would say, AWSOME MAN! but they dont work

Yes, everything I have bottles harvested has gone great as long as I stepped it up alot.

Arneba28 said:

If your pictures worked I would say, AWSOME MAN! but they dont work

Yes, everything I have bottles harvested has gone great as long as I stepped it up alot.

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Hah, you got me while I was fixing the code. I was actually hoping this would take awhile to develop. My frozen yeast equipment is still on its way here.

And now they work. Yes. that is what happened with almost all my harvested. There is a link, here on a better way to harvest

The infamous Pacman yeast! It's funny that I bought a bottle of Rouge Mocha Porter expecting to do this. It makes the $6 22oz beer a great value (reusable bottle, yeast, and great beer).

Before long, I'll have the 15 varieties I'm shooting for. :rockin: