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Most of it reads like a plagiarised lab manual offering very little practical use to the home brewer, in reality. The rest is kind of a bit waffly, based on cherry-picked opinions more than established best practices; again of very little practical use to the home brewer. If you can’t sleep at night, I’m sure reading a page or two’s going to put you out like a light. You’ll get acceptable results following White Lab’s standard instructions, of course. I find my method works much better, but I’m not selling anything packaged as ‘convenient for home brewers’. Obviously, Chris White is very good at selling yeast. Probably much better at selling yeast than me. My sales pitch: “Either you want it or you don’t, don’t waste my time. Do as I say or don’t bother. This is about culturing brewer’s yeast not skinning cats.” My method, which has been develop through serious research in home brew over several years, and is closer to what pros in breweries and labs do compared with home brewers misguided by people selling ‘convenient’ products, requires little more than a few jars, yeast and fermentable wort. No need for even the most basic piece of yeast lab equipment, the microscope. You can’t get more practical than that for the home brewer. I’d recommend making wort fresh from grain, too. I’m convinced it’s more nutritious for the yeast than DME. Obviously, cleanliness alone’s not going to grow much at all. The key really has always been to apply science: the methodology that allows better understanding of observable processes, so that they can be improved and developed further. Belief in romantic stories is the complete opposite and promotes looking backwards not forwards.
I have a lot of respect for Chris White and Jenny Logsdon (Wyeast Labs). They did a lot for people like you. I don’t think I’ve got the patience, to be honest. In fact, I'm lying. I know I haven't. My customers are a bit more advanced generally and certainly a lot less demanding. I wouldn’t sell to you even if you were buying. One of the benefits of being the boss
That's a good phrase and so true.trucker5774 wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 10:20 amThere is best practice and there is "this works for me"
Absolutely, where 'this works for me' reflects a continuum of abilities, aims, criteria considered 'acceptable' and opinions vs best practices, ranging from those who enjoy beer and strive to continuously improve the beer they make to those who just want to get p*ssed. I think the PC phrase used these days is 'diversity'.trucker5774 wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 10:20 amThere is best practice and there is "this works for me".
I do dispare at the ammount of "let's get pissed" folks there are but I do find a 5hr+ brewday tends to filter them out.McMullan wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 8:21 am
Absolutely, where 'this works for me' reflects a continuum of abilities, aims, criteria considered 'acceptable' and opinions vs best practices, ranging from those who enjoy beer and strive to continuously improve the beer they make to those who just want to get p*ssed. I think the PC phrase used these days is 'diversity'.