Yeast Culturing

[eurc51]

I've read in some recipes and that the yeast is "cultured from a bottle of Chimay" or "cultured from the yeast cake...". Can anyone explain how to do this? Also, if you culture from a specific beer or yeast cake, do you have to use the yeast in the same type of brew?

Thanks,

E

 

[Revvy]

There's several threads on here that explain it...There's a couple different ways to do it...Making a starter from the sludge at the bottom of the bottle, or culturing using a noc loop...These were found using the search function...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showpost.php?p=114104&postcount=56

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=35891

Here's an example of a bunch of us doing it to harvest Rogue's Pacman strain...(Cool video)

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=63855

ANd here's the wiki!

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Yeast_bank


Have fun!