So as I was looking at some ingredients for another brew I decided to take some grain I had from a kit that opened up during shipping and use that to make wort for...
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UPDATE: Back Yard Yeast Experiment: Brewing the beer
So the beer ended up fermenting rather quickly and actively and down to 1.010SG which give me about a 4.33% beer. Transferred it to a small 1 gallon keg and carbonated up the beer....
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Back Yard Yeast Experiment: Brewing the beer
Ok, Not that I have collected the yeast and isolated it, check that out here. From that we started with a small yeast starter and built it up for this batch, check that out...
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Back Yard Yeast Experiment: Building my yeast counts
So I harvested some yeast from my back yard, you can read about that here. After harvesting I had put together some plates per Bootleg biology. The plates were pretty easy to put together...
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Back Yard Yeast Experiment: Harvesting my house yeast Take 1….
So like the title stated, I’m trying to harvest a yeast strain that ferments wort and also that taste good. I have spent the last year reading about this. I have also been doing...
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Frozen Yeast from 12-5-2020 is it any good??
So this is going to be an experiment for me and may play with more as back in 2020 I had I had read up on freezing yeast. Back then I had froze a...
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Reusing yeast?? Well lets see how it turns out!!!
So I have reused yeast with great luck in the past with the exception of two brews which I quickly tossed. With that said I know where I went wrong with that after more...
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Freeze your Yeast update
Back about a year now, a few days over, I had posted about Freezing Yeast , now since I had done this I haven’t used that yeast to much as I was brewing many...
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MISC – Freezing Yeast
So as most people know I’m a frugal person. With that said when I brew a batch of beer it can cost be from $25-$50+ per 5 gallon batch. Looking at the ingredients that...
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