Commercial Beer Yeast Harvest List

[TxCoconut]

Thank you for your research & others contribution. Sticky this for us yeast newbs!

 

[insurgus]

People are all about this Pacman yeast. If I grew some up would people want it?

Edit: scratch that, you can buy it from wyeast.

You can buy "a version" from wyeast

 

[Matteo57]

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[Bradinator]

I just got given the Schmaltz holiday gift pack and was thinking of trying to harvest some of the yeasts. Has anyone tried harvesting from Schmaltz beers? Reading online seems to lead me to believe this is an unfiltered beer, but does anyone know for sure?

 

[Caucasian]

You can buy "a version" from wyeast

Do you mean its not the same strain?

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Do you mean its not the same strain?

It's the same strain. Wy maintains Rogue's yeast bank, which is a fancy way of saying that when Rogue needs yeast, they order it from Wy. It may be slightly different, because Wy is lab direct and in the Rogue brewery the yeast may change, but I believe I've read that Rogue reorders once they detect differences in yeast character.

 

[jeepinjeepin]

It's the same strain. Wy maintains Rogue's yeast bank, which is a fancy way of saying that when Rogue needs yeast, they order it from Wy. It may be slightly different, because Wy is lab direct and in the Rogue brewery the yeast may change, but I believe I've read that Rogue reorders once they detect differences in yeast character.

That's the whole point of yeast banking. A brewery always has that set point to go back to.

 

[highgravitybacon]

Was successful getting yeast from Koninshoeven La Trappe Tripel
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/184/658

Awesome to know. I'm on a Belgian yeast binge and this was on the radar.

Boulevard beers: NOT possible to harvest yeast. They use a different yeast for bottle conditioning. One of their employees did a nhc presentation and I believe said they use safbrew S-33 for conditioning.

 

[supermoth]

Pranqster harvest worked....

Just took a gravity reading for a tripel I brewed and it went from1.071 to 1.010. Am going to bottle either next week or the week after that....

Sample tasted pretty good.

I have also had good results with harvesting Pranqster.

Does anyone have any experience with the St. Feuillien saison?

 

[j1laskey]

This is from Cambridge Brewing Company's Big Man IPA. Started the culture on Tuesday. Have to split it tomorrow. It looks like wlp005. Cottage cheese.

 

[tjohn]

Anyone tried cigar city?

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

I'm sure it's been mentioned here before, but I've recently harvested Conan yeast from Heady Topper.

 

[Bradinator]

I was lucky enough to get a case of Westvleteren XII for Christmas this year. I am in the process of attempting to harvest the yeast from a bottle and so far its looking like its going to take. I will update the final results in a couple days when its done.

If it fails I got another 3 bottles to attempt with!

 

[j1laskey]

This is from Cambridge Brewing Company's Big Man IPA. Started the culture on Tuesday. Have to split it tomorrow. It looks like wlp005. Cottage cheese.

So.... I was off just a bit. But conformation from CBC

 

[DanaDana]

Just starting building up some yeast from bottle of Maudite last night. Showing the w wife she made a good investment in the Christmas Gift she gave me. Hope it works out and is ready for Saturday.

 

[tagz]

I was lucky enough to get a case of Westvleteren XII for Christmas this year. I am in the process of attempting to harvest the yeast from a bottle and so far its looking like its going to take. I will update the final results in a couple days when its done.

If it fails I got another 3 bottles to attempt with!

you may know this already but I believe the Westy yeast is Westmalle which is available commercially as 3787.

 

[Bradinator]

you may know this already but I believe the Westy yeast is Westmalle which is available commercially as 3787.

I did not, though I am unsurprised. Still it looks like I am going to harvest it successfully so its a bonus on top of the amazing beer.

 

[Jukas]

Tried twice to harvest Conan from some Heady Topper. First time I used an sterile inoculation loop and tried to plate out from the dregs in the can. After 10 days I had zero growth on the plates. Second attempt I opened a can and poured off 90% into a glass in one clean pour. I then swirled the dregs and added it to 400ml of 1.020 wort and put it on my stir plate. After 72hrs of zero activity I wrapped the flask in a couple of kitchen towels to try and warm it up a bit. Woke up this morning to find the start of a krausen!

Assuming it takes off like a normal starter from this point, I'll plate out from the starter and then grow up and isolate some single colonies to slant.

 

[tagz]

Anyone have any luck with Rochefort? I have couple of bottles in the fridge. My search didn't turn up much...

 

[GoldenSky]

Definitely the best beers for reharvesting are true import Belgians - sure you can buy the WLP or WYeast strains, but they lack the traditional "flare" of their original counterparts...

I just found a blog from a Belgian monk (I didn't think Monks could blog), but it's pretty interesting...

http://forsakenmonk.wordpress.com/

 

[Antler]

I harvested some yeast from Sam Adams Oktoberfest a few months ago. Some folks on here said the filtered there beers but the couple 6 packs I bought had sediment so I tossed it in a small starter and built it up. I found another couple 6 packs at a store in the city last week and they had sediment as well.

I'm planning to do a side by side double 1 gallon batch to try the harvested yeast against a marzen see how it turns out.

 

[Wig]

I harvested from a bottle of Caledonian's Golden Promise a little while ago. Have not tried the yeast in a batch yet.

 

[killian]

Great thread, this info needs to be in the wiki

 

[Cincy17]

Boulevard beers: NOT possible to harvest yeast. They use a different yeast for bottle conditioning. One of their employees did a nhc presentation and I believe said they use safbrew S-33 for conditioning.

Not entirely true. I'm pretty sure the Love Child beers have Brett and bugs in the bottle.

 

[WoodHokie4]

This is an awesome post! I'm about to brew a Nut Brown ale...does anyone know of a good brew I can harvest from for this? I was hoping Sam Adam's Hazel Brown or Sam Smith's Nut Brown might be good candidates....

(Sorry if this has already been discussed...there are lots of pages to read through)

 

[TungstenBeer]

I didn't harvest it, but the Green Flash West Coast IPAs I had last weekend had a nice layer of sediment at the bottom - it actually looked like a nice white yeast cake from a fermenter, which I thought was odd.

Next time I brew a red ale, I'll have to see if their Hop Head Red has the same sediment.

 

[moshmont]

I've harvested from Southern Tier's LIVE & have a clone fermenting now!

 

[wonderbread23]

I can personally confirm successfully growing viable cultures from:

Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus
Tilquin Gueuze
Russian River Beatification
Crooked Stave Surrette

http://www.thepourreport.com/culture-tasting/

 

[harrymanback92]

Don't know if it's been mentioned but i just harvested a 4 pack of Green Flash Rayon Vert.

 

[mtnagel]

So I'm trying to harvest from a Bell's Two Hearted for my clone and it's been sitting there for 5 days with no indication that anything happened. At day 3 the SG hadn't dropped so I shook it vigorously. I had it sitting at 75F the whole time. I was almost ready to start a thread on here and was figuring I would just move onto the next step just to see if anything would happen and I look and I see tiny bubbles coming from the bottom :up:

Can't wait to get my clone going with this stuff!