Hello all. I'm from Michigan, but live in the Romanian country for the time being. New to this forum! I have hops growing out my ears in the wild here. I've never used such fresh hops. I have a 100 pounds of barley and tis the season. It's going to be interesting because they don't have the typical yeasts etc I'm used to. I've read some articles before on harvesting yeast from bottles. Anyone ever given it a go? Also, for washing the hops, is it going to take away any of the hops properties? I'll be doing a lot of experimenting once I get my malt going! Been setting up my work place and equipment. I'm almost ready!!!
Hello from Romania, and Michigan
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You wash yeast not hops. Hops should be spread out on something like a screen door & allowed to dry,prefferably with a fan underneith to get more air circulation. Yeast that's been used to brew with is "washed" to seperate the trub,which is discarded. Yeast from bottles of beer can be grown in a starter to get more yeast cells to brew with.
Welcome, and there are good threads on yeast washing (rinsing, really) and no you don't wash hops, but if you get them fresh you can dry them as unionrdr says. I've got a few pounds drying as we speak (or as I type) and will pick a few more pounds tomorrow with a friend. You can use them fresh as well, but you have to convert the weight to wet hops, which is something like 5 times the weight of dry.
Harvesting yeast is simply collecting the yeast from the bottom of a bottle of not really old beer and growing it in a jar with some wort (You can use malt extract to make a 1.030 gravity wort to grow the dregs up to starter sized volumes.)
Good luck!
Harvesting yeast is simply collecting the yeast from the bottom of a bottle of not really old beer and growing it in a jar with some wort (You can use malt extract to make a 1.030 gravity wort to grow the dregs up to starter sized volumes.)
Good luck!
Welcome to the group, from CO. Fresh Hopped beers are some of my favorites, you just lose lots of beer to the hops, suck 'em up like a sponge.
Well I'm kind of lucky because having the eye for looking through beer, the local beers here still have clumps of visible yeast. They have many non filtered beers locally make. The packages you buy here just say 'brewers yeast'. Nothing else. I will try a packet to see what happens for flavor and post my results. Started a bucket of malt last night. I'll give the local goods a go first and start culturing some yeast from some of my favorite local brands.
I had a local tell me to take 3k of barley (burned-unmilled) 1k of corn, a scoop of sugar and boil it. Cool it, throw in a yeast cube and cap it in a bucket. This is how the make village beer. I have to admit I'm curious just how it turns out. Barley is cheap, corn is cheap. I paid a dollar per 6 kilos (12 pounds) for some strong healthy grain.
I had a local tell me to take 3k of barley (burned-unmilled) 1k of corn, a scoop of sugar and boil it. Cool it, throw in a yeast cube and cap it in a bucket. This is how the make village beer. I have to admit I'm curious just how it turns out. Barley is cheap, corn is cheap. I paid a dollar per 6 kilos (12 pounds) for some strong healthy grain.
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No, so far the only yeast they have on the shelf says "beer yeast", people cook with it which leads me to believe it's an Ale. I have looked EVERYWHERE. I just found a local commercial beer with an incredible amount of yeast and started a 15ml culture from it in some fresh wart. I will know in a day or two what I got. I'll run some tests and post the results. Problem is I don't have any yeast nutrients, any suggestions for nutrients? They don't have anything store bought available.
