How do I get a yeast strain named after me?

[dgez]

Any ideas?

 

[Revvy]

You usually have to deserve it.

 

[Yooper]

Ask Denny?

 

[thatjonguy]

Start selectively culturing and fire up your brewpot? Not all mutations are bad...

 

[Revvy]

Ask Denny?

He definitely deserved it.

 

[Dunerunner]

Dunno....get a really bad infection and have it turn out perfect, save a sample and replicate it?



Oops! Forgot the most important part....Win the NHC and Homebrewer of the year with the beers you've made with it.

 

[kh54s10]

Buy tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of specialized equipment. Develop a strain that is unique and spend another few hundred thousand dollars to market it.

Good luck!

Or know someone in a high position at Wyeast, White Labs, or one of the other major producers. :rockin:

 

[aubiecat]

If you have enough money you can get just about anything named after you.

 

[sweetcell]

if you have to ask, then you are pretty much assured it'll never happen.

 

[conpewter]

I'd suggest capturing a wild yeast that makes good beer (will take a lot of time and experiments) then try to plate it and build up a specific colonly of yeast. Then just start calling it yours. As you use it, you can cull out batches that taste better, or attenuate better, and breed from those, creating a strain that does what you want, with lots of small batch experiments and lots of time.

 

[weremichael]

Hummers for the White brothers? (don't know if they're into that sort of thing)

 

[edecambra]

Hummers for the White brothers? (don't know if they're into that sort of thing)

Ha, I almost woke my wife up, that was funny!

 

[JoeLindley]

The same way Michael Jordan got a country named after him...be rich and famous.

 

[DobrePivo]

Ask Denny?

Who?

 

[Yooper]

Who?

From Wyeast:

YEAST STRAIN: 1450 | Denny's Favorite 50

This terrific all-round yeast can be used for almost any beer style, and is a mainstay of one of our local homebrewers, Mr. Denny Conn. It is unique in that it produces a big mouthfeel and accentuates the malt, caramel, or fruit character of a beer without being sweet or under-attenuated..

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He's this cool guy: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/members/Denny

He could tell you how it came about. I never thought to ask, but I'd be interested in hearing the story!

 

[AmandaK]

Who?

If you gotta ask that, you probably won't have a yeast named after you.

#respectyourelders

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

Pay for it.

 

[barrooze]

If you really want a yeast named after you, you could go the opposite route and just name your first born "WLP001", "Roeselare", or "BugFarm V".