Guiness Antwerpen Bottle Yeast Harvest

[sky4meplease]

Has anyone harvested this yeast or know if the beer is bottle conditioned and if so with what?

The first bottle had quite the sediment. I am ready to try and harvest from another but thought I would ask around.

Beer

 

[Shackleford_rusty]

Has anyone harvested this yeast or know if the beer is bottle conditioned and if so with what?

The first bottle had quite the sediment. I am ready to try and harvest from another but thought I would ask around.

Beer

I would be interested in a clone recipe if someone had it, that stuff is delicious.

 

[ESBrewer]

According to some people who write about Guinness, all Guinness products are nowadays filtered and pasteurized. Thus, you'll probably waste your time trying to culture the dregs.

WLP004 / Wyeast 1084 is likely from Guinness if you aim to brew something similar.
"This yeast is from one of the oldest stout-producing breweries in the world." -White labs

 

[sky4meplease]

According to some people who write about Guinness, all Guinness products are nowadays filtered and pasteurized. Thus, you'll probably waste your time trying to culture the dregs.

WLP004 / Wyeast 1084 is likely from Guinness if you aim to brew something similar.
"This yeast is from one of the oldest stout-producing breweries in the world." -White labs

The last bottle was not filtered at least not very well. Pasteurized would make sense. I will give it a try and see what happens. Thank you for the reply.

 

[sky4meplease]

I can throw a sample under the microscope also to see what was in the sediment at the bottom.

 

[ESBrewer]

Yep, but sediment is something that may form either before or after filtration. If you go for it, please keep us posted what you find.

 

[Calder]

I believe all their products are pasteurized. I tried to harvest the yeast from their Wheat beer, without any luck. I usually have pretty good success when the yeast is viable.

I think they use the same yeast for all their products, and just change the fermentation temp to get different flavors.

Give it a go, and let us know. If it works, I'll try again; I have 30 bottles of the Antwerpen Stout in my garage.

 

[sky4meplease]

A sample viewed under a microscope leads me to believe that it was filtered as what was left is pretty small outside of a few cells.
I have some sitting in fresh wort now so we will see what happens I will let you know.

 

[sky4meplease]

I dumped it down the drain. No activity after four days.