Brewlab yeast

Horden Hillbilly · Post by **Horden Hillbilly** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:31 pm

ThomasBoze wrote:Would someone post the contact info for Brewlabs please? I would like to order some slants. Thanks.

Here you go, Brewlab

Horden Hillbilly · Post by **Horden Hillbilly** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:14 pm

Just to update everyone on it's progress, I have fermented it in a demijohn & split it using Jim's method here.

It worked a treat, I made a small starter in a milk bottle first, 300ml water/40g light, hopped spraymalt & fermented this for 2 days to "wake it up".

I then dissolved 460g bag of light, hopped spraymalt (the remainder of the 500g bag) in 4 pints of water, boiled & cooled it topped it up to 8 pints, added the small starter, fermented it in a demijohn for a week & transferred into 12 small bottles which are now in the fridge.

They have been bottled 4 days now, they are clearing up nicely & a healthy amount of yeast has setled in the bottom of the bottles.

Cheers Jim, this has worked a treat!

Martin the fish · Post by **Martin the fish** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:43 am

great thread HH.
All the information on liquid yeasts that i was after is here

Tomorrow i'm ordering my first liquid yeast, will split it up, ala Jim and store in fridge. How long will it last in fridge???

Horden Hillbilly · Post by **Horden Hillbilly** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:09 pm

Martin the fish wrote:great thread HH.
All the information on liquid yeasts that i was after is here

Tomorrow i'm ordering my first liquid yeast, will split it up, ala Jim and store in fridge. How long will it last in fridge???

I honestly don't know as this is my first try at this method myself.

I will be using the bottles to make starters from until the end of my brewing season, probably around late June/early July.

If I have any bottles left I will probably sling the contents & start with a fresh yeast when I resume brewing after my summer break, probably around late October.

Calum · Post by **Calum** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:22 pm

HH, did you read the article in Brewers Contact this month about reusing yeast. The bloke has been using the same strain of yeast since the early 80's that he propogated from a bottle of Guiness. He did a test where he split a brew of 5 gallons between four commmercial yeast and the one he has been using and he didn't think there was any benefit from the former.

If you make a bottled batch like Graham Wheeler suggests in his book (strong, all grain) you could keep this strain going for years.

DRB · Post by **DRB** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:39 pm

Just sampled my beer made with brewlab Thames valley 3 after only 5 days since being bottled very good and nice and clear. It did take a couple of weeks to finish though had to rouse it after a week to get it going again, a stir every other day would finish it earlier I would imagine, I will b using this again as I like it.

lordnoise · Post by **lordnoise** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:15 am

AngloScot wrote:Number 9? Sounds like something from 'Blazing Saddles'!

I've used 9 and got loads of wonderful bubblegum esters from it. It behaved itself well too. Fermented out in 4 days and dropped nice and bright very quickly. Apart from the bubblegum theres nothing cowboy about this one - a true gent of a yeast imo.

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:21 am

I thought number 9 tasted a bit too much like S-04 for my liking. It's not as flocculant though. I didn't get any bubblegum off it when I used it.

I didn't like it that much so my quest moves on....

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:39 pm

I just got some Yorkshire 2, anyone got any comments on this one?

DRB · Post by **DRB** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:13 am

When I asked about the difference between the three and two they said that number two could cope with higher gravity beers better around 1.048 plus.

Sorry just noticed you asked about Yorkshire strain not Thames valley

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Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:51 pm

No worries DRB

I read somewhere on here that Y2 can give a caramel flavour

BarnsleyBrewer · Post by **BarnsleyBrewer** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:31 pm

I'm fermenting with a brewlab yeast, "Barnsley B", plenty of bubblegum!!
It's very lively in the fermenter, smells great IMO, wife not to happy about the whiff, she doesn't understand!!
Got 10 samples from the slope, I'll post the results when I try the taste test!!

BB

jeebeel · Post by **jeebeel** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:11 pm

Anyone know whether these strains are available to US customers?

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:30 pm

jeebeel wrote:Anyone know whether these strains are available to US customers?

I don't see why not, just may loose some viability during the postage

BarnsleyBrewer · Post by **BarnsleyBrewer** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:54 pm

Been fermenting now with 2" of "gunge" on the top for 4 days, it's nothing like s04 yeast!

John

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