How to deal leftover yeast that we use for small BIAB batches?

[hotbeer]

OK, thanks for labeling me a germaphobe.
I wonder, how would I label people that deny simplest sanitation procedures if I had a habit of labeling people?

Well I thought you'd take that as fun picking as I'd suppose you and any of your friends would do at the Pub.

However I apologize for offending you.

Read replies with a smile and don't impart bad tones or sentiment to them.

 

[Miraculix]

I like that! ^
Was thinking of this too. If you put a single batch dose into each tube and make a single-use of each, you may really drop the sanitation hassle completely.


They are prohibitevly expensive here though

They would perfectly fit into a freezer!!!

 

[Protos]

Yep! If the tubes are sterile, one may store them anywhere. Even in the latrine, if the temperature regime there allows

Well I thought you'd take that as fun picking as I'd suppose you and any of your friends would do at the Pub.

However I apologize for offending you.

Read replies with a smile and don't impart bad tones or sentiment to them.

Sorry if I missed your good humour. In this thread I feel myself vulnerable and on the defensive side

 

[mashpaddled]

I tend to only buy dry yeast as bottling strains for my mixed fermentation beers, exactly because of this issue. Far easier to build up some of the slurry of one of the strains in my fridge for the batch size. I will say I have done the fold over and tape technique in the fridge with several dry strains with no issues, even after some of have been in the fridge for more than a year. Granted, these are going into sour or brett beers where a small amount of unintended passengers isn't a big deal.

 

[bracconiere]

Read replies with a smile and don't impart bad tones or sentiment to them.

man...well i can't think of a good satirical joke. so i'll give you this

 

[hotbeer]

I feel myself vulnerable and on the defensive side

I get that way too.

But believe me when I say that I don't want my friends to agree with me all the time. We wouldn't have anything useful to talk about other than imagine ourselves superior to everyone else.

Growing up without the internet and social media, I learned to either put up with people having different views on things or there just wouldn't be any friends to play with.

 

[Protos]

That's all true.
My takeaway from growing up not just without the internet, but also without the mobile phones, was that I severely limit now my beerpub-style personal puns online, however well-intended they are and however smart and brilliant they look to me. People very often didn't get my good humour because they didn't see my face or hear my voice, so instead of seeing them adoring my extraordinary smartness I had to ask for apologies more often than I'd like.
And I don't like to ask for apologies.

 

[madscientist451]

Man, that sounds almost like a disorder to me

That's really over the top. I can understand the alcohol at the opening, but all the rest is over the top. We are not working in sterile environment, all of our beer is full of "unwanted" microbes. As long as you keep good sanitation and conditions of the fermentation within the right range, all is good.

Yeah, I agree, I'm way to lazy for all that extra work. I usually brew 2.5 to 3.5 gallon batches and I just toss the whole pack in (OMG I'm over-pitching ) and then save the yeast slurry in a jar in the fridge. I use about half the slurry in the next batch, maybe make a starter if its been a while between brews. I suppose making a starter is extra work, and if I want to be really lazy I'll just buy more packs of yeast, but I'm also kind of a cheap, so I always have inner conflicts.... .
After 4-5 batches, time for a new pack, but I've gone much longer without problems.