That's correct. Notti and Windsor in the mix are kind of the old school gold standard for English dry yeast.
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Well, if anybody wants to know, after four or five days no signs of life. Down the drain it went, the freezing experiment didn't work out. Won't try this again.
As I undestand it the most important part is getting the slurry and glycerine solution mixed well, so the glycerine sort of emulsifies in the slurry.
That was probably not the case here. Tried to mix it by hand in a freezer bag.
I am gonna try just giving it a good stir in the jars with a sanitised tea-spoon before putting the lid on...
Even Madonna agrees with you.You can’t beat a pint of Good Old Timothy Taylors landlord
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it's sad that her face is now as fake as her accent was in that video.
She's pretty gross....it's sad that her face is now as fake as her accent was in that video.
I tried freezing some Wyeast 2035 last year when I finally got some. Thats been one of their limited edition strains and one I had planned on trying to keep and use a few times. I followed the instructions mixing glycerine and I bought little plastic centrifuge tubes that I took great care to sanitize, along with everything else. When I took out one of the frozen tubes and made a starter it was obviously infected. I made 10 tubes and made infected starters out of 4 of them before I threw them all away. This is the first time I tried freezing yeast with glycerine and I’m not sure where I went wrong. Shame because I was hoping to be able to save off some of these limited availability yeasts. I guess yeast ranchin’ ain’t for me.
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I just brewed my last batch of stout with refrigerated slurry from a scottish ale thats been in my fridge for a month or so . 24 hours after pitching krauzen blew out my ferm lock 
it's wl0028 Edinburgh ale ...wanted to give it another try but I'm pretty much done buying liquid yeast so I saved it in a jar in fridge . I know this is old hat with most of ya'll but it's the first time I bothered to save yeast ... usually goes down the sink.
it's wl0028 Edinburgh ale ...wanted to give it another try but I'm pretty much done buying liquid yeast so I saved it in a jar in fridge . I know this is old hat with most of ya'll but it's the first time I bothered to save yeast ... usually goes down the sink.
Where did you get the glycerine? Was it pure or diluted? If diluted, what percentage?
What I'm getting at is that the glycerine itself might be the source of your infection.
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A PDQ note on saving yeast...bottle it. Take a teaspoon of the yeast you want to save and put it into a sterilized bottle and top-off with beer, any beer is OK, add corn sugar to prime and cap. This will keep for up to two years and is easily reactivated and doesn't use fridge space.
Walmart in the health/beauty section. I forget the % but everybody said this was ok to use. Boiled the glycerine water mix
The 99+% food or pharmaceutical grade stuff should be OK, but... nothing can grow in it because it's too viscous, but it can still get contaminated (with spores, e.g., that can then grow once it's been diluted). I've never frozen yeast as a homebrewer, but I always autoclaved the glycerol back in my lab days.
As a hillbilly I truly appreciate the ghetto-enginering and make-it-work approach to that beer engine.
Great work!
From an English perspective: that's way too much foam! There should be beer instead!
From a German perspective: really nice head! Richtig schöne Blume. 1a gezapft.
I wish I could claim any credit or ingenuity but this is pure HBT genius going back to 2006 (but I do have an upgrade coming that takes it to the next level!)
Fellow homebrewers, meet my new beer engine . . .
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@Witherby Do you have part number for the Propane Low Pressure Regulator that you used? I slapped together one of these but stuck on finding the right propane regulator. What I have has a wierd reverse thread and can't figure out how to connect it to the CO2 regulator. I tried a couple on Amazon and returned them since I couldn't figure those out either. Any hints, tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated!
I have this one that matches the description on the Zymurgy article specs: Precimex 3001 Single Stage Regultor
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I have been looking at doing this. Do you feel like it serves better than just keeping low volumes of CO2 in a keg?
I have had the pump working for a few years and I’m not sure it was worth it without the sparkler but with the sparkler it has a great thick foamy head and knocks the carbonation out of the beer and rounds it out. So the design of the beer plays a role. But even the English disagree and ultimately it goes down to what you like.
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Packaging - just wanted to pass on a tip (possibly).
I’ve been brewing for a pretty long time and started bottle conditioning, went to kegging and even cask beer with an engine. I’m now back to bottle conditioning and will probably be staying there.
I brew 80% British style and 15% Belgian styles - and have always preferred bottle conditioned beers, but the time spent bottling got to be too much.
I’ve finally streamlined it with brewing 2.5 gallons at a time, 22oz bottles, carbonation drops, primary fermentor with spout (I use an SS Brewbucket)
So 2.5 gallons will give me an exact twelve 22oz bottles which is plenty.
Primary for 1.5-2 weeks, sanitize bottles + add 1 carb drop, hook up bottle wand direct to fermenter, bottle then cap. Let sit 2 weeks, right into fridge and drinking.
1 carb drop gives you a really nice low carbonation for British styles. I use 1 in 33cl bottles for my Belgian beers.
I can now bottle in maybe 30 mins and it’s not so much of a chore.
Hope someone might pick up a few tips.
I’ve been brewing for a pretty long time and started bottle conditioning, went to kegging and even cask beer with an engine. I’m now back to bottle conditioning and will probably be staying there.
I brew 80% British style and 15% Belgian styles - and have always preferred bottle conditioned beers, but the time spent bottling got to be too much.
I’ve finally streamlined it with brewing 2.5 gallons at a time, 22oz bottles, carbonation drops, primary fermentor with spout (I use an SS Brewbucket)
So 2.5 gallons will give me an exact twelve 22oz bottles which is plenty.
Primary for 1.5-2 weeks, sanitize bottles + add 1 carb drop, hook up bottle wand direct to fermenter, bottle then cap. Let sit 2 weeks, right into fridge and drinking.
1 carb drop gives you a really nice low carbonation for British styles. I use 1 in 33cl bottles for my Belgian beers.
I can now bottle in maybe 30 mins and it’s not so much of a chore.
Hope someone might pick up a few tips.
I do half a litre bottles and I have a small plastic spoon that fits the correct amount of priming sugar plus a little funnel. I fill each bottle individually with granulated sugar, takes me just a tad bit more time per bottle than throwing in a carbonation drop. That way I bottle my 18l batches in less than 45 minutes.Packaging - just wanted to pass on a tip (possibly).
I’ve been brewing for a pretty long time and started bottle conditioning, went to kegging and even cask beer with an engine. I’m now back to bottle conditioning and will probably be staying there.
I brew 80% British style and 15% Belgian styles - and have always preferred bottle conditioned beers, but the time spent bottling got to be too much.
I’ve finally streamlined it with brewing 2.5 gallons at a time, 22oz bottles, carbonation drops, primary fermentor with spout (I use an SS Brewbucket)
So 2.5 gallons will give me an exact twelve 22oz bottles which is plenty.
Primary for 1.5-2 weeks, sanitize bottles + add 1 carb drop, hook up bottle wand direct to fermenter, bottle then cap. Let sit 2 weeks, right into fridge and drinking.
1 carb drop gives you a really nice low carbonation for British styles. I use 1 in 33cl bottles for my Belgian beers.
I can now bottle in maybe 30 mins and it’s not so much of a chore.
Hope someone might pick up a few tips.
I am brewing something very similar but with Maris Otter this weekend.
I haven't tried the Windosr/Notty mix yet. How do you like it? I'm brewing something similar soon with the Whitbread strains 1098/1099.
Full pack of each yeast?
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Bottling my " Dobby the house bitter today" It's nothing special ... Marris Otter ,crystal 40 , fuggles and muntons yeast. It's part of my experimental 1 gallon brews ( will be taste testing my " Beer Hunter" Deer camp brown" tonight with some friends) . I will change 1 variable each batch just to see what works , next variable for this one will be invert ... should I make it myself or buy some Lyle's golden syrup or similar?
Cheaper to do it yourself and it isn't that difficult.
