Bottle carbonated commercial beers

[PavlovsCat]

Which American craft beers are naturally carbonated? Is it supposed to be listed on the bottle somewhere? Is there a list on this forum that I missed? People talk about harvesting yeast from bottles. Would be pretty difficult if the beer wasn't bottle carbonated first. I know Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is, because it says so on the bottle.

 

[Revvy]

This is one of the few lists out there....it is not great....and a little outdated, but it is all we have.

Yeasts from Bottle Conditioned Beers

 

[Irie5447]

I'm pretty sure Magic Hat beers are bottle conditioned also.

 

[Revvy]

I'm pretty sure Magic Hat beers are bottle conditioned also.

I'm not sure, like I said the list is outdated. I do wish someone would do a modern database of it.

 

[Clonefarmer]

How hard would it be to update this list ? Any tips for someone willing to try?

 

[giligson]

How hard would it be to update this list ? Any tips for someone willing to try?

Start Drinking

 

[Revvy]

How hard would it be to update this list ? Any tips for someone willing to try?

I betcha with the googlez it wouldn't be hard to double check those beers, and also find more....it should be updated on a site like this, where it will stay. I poked around the website that it went on, and honestly I'm surprised the site is still up on someone's server, nothing I could find (and I didn't look too hard) had been touched since 99...that info could disappear any time.

I have found that with micro breweries they are pretty willing to answer questions. I betcha if we emailed them, most microbreweries would provide the info...some may even tell us the strains used.

 

[Clonefarmer]

The Oxford bottled beer database has some information on bottle conditioned beer.
mrmalty.com yeast-info on some strains used by commercial breweries.

 

[rtbroze]

I think Victory golden monkey is BC. I have two bottles that have been in my fridge for about a year and it all settled out.

I think the beer tastes like ass (golden ass monkey) so that is why it has been in there so long. I probably should just dump it and use the bottles......

BYW I love most other Victory beers.

 

[Clonefarmer]

A few updates to the list:

Adnams - site says all beers are filtered.
Anderson Valley - site says all beers unfiltered and unpasteurized.
Blue Ridge - not sure if this is Blue Ridge Brewery witch only has a filtered wheat or Blue Ridge wheat from Frederick Brewing Co. witch is no longer brewed. (brewery was bought out by flying dog).

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

As a PSA I will note that many breweries who bottle condition do so with a different yeast strain or even a lager strain that produces very neutral flavors. Just because you get a culture does not mean it was the fermentation culture.

 

[Revvy]

As a PSA I will note that many breweries who bottle condition do so with a different yeast strain or even a lager strain that produces very neutral flavors. Just because you get a culture does not mean it was the fermentation culture.

That's one of the things adressed in the original list, and would be something that if someone were contacting a brewery to clarify....it's actually mostly Belgians that guard the yeast though.