Frozen Yeast is Alive !!

[Raffie]

Well I made multiple starters and froze them following this process.
http://www.schwedhelm.net/brew/yeast_harv_freeze.html

Well I pitched the frozen yeast in Friday morning and last night it was still dead nothing at all. I grabbed the starter and shook it for dear life and went to bed.
This morning its fizzing away and growning.

I think it need hard core airation to kick start it, but who cares it works.

I got 4 starter samples from 4 different types of yeast so far in my freezer.

What I did for this was mass easy.
I boiled the water for 10 minutes.
Waited for it to cool a bit.

Filled a 1qt mason jar about 1/3 and put into fridge till temp got to a safe level.

Swirrled the trub up and filled the mason jar and put a lid on it.

About 20-45 minutes later the yeast layer can been see. Can't miss it.

Took my Turkey Flavor Injector (its food grade plastic syringe) and extracted the yeast layer into my test tube that has a lid. Filled it 1/2 with the yeast and filled rest with Glycerin.

Shook well and froze per the web site.

I froze this yeast 2 weeks ago.
Good stuff.

P.S. I could not find my thread where I started this.

 

[boo boo]

I made a starter of WY1084 from a tube of yeast I had frozen for more than a year now, last week. Pitched it into a Oatmeal Stout saturday.

Really simple isn't it. Just have to keep sanatization to a max.