Tag: Yeast

Commercial yeast origins

It came to my attention that Mr. Malty (generally awesome) [1] has compiled|published|what-have-you a number of charts (2) that identify the brewery source for various strains sold commercially. I’m a Wyeast man myself so the Wyeast Strains Chart [2] is where I’m at. There’s a separate chart for the White Labs [3] folks too.

Some of the names used for strains pretty much give it away, but others are shrouded in mystery. Well….no longer!

[1] http://www.mrmalty.com
[2] http://www.mrmalty.com/wyeast.php
[3] http://www.mrmalty.com/white-labs.php

Santa’s Brewery

Thanks to Santa I’ve got a pressure cooker and some other toys. Working on my first set of slants for yeast [1] right now. I’ve got two Wyeast strains in the fridge and could possibly be picking up another depending on what gets brewed this weekend. Still trying to choose from amonst these choices.

  1. another Belgian dubbel using the PC Dutch Castle [2]
  2. another run at the Rochefort 8 clone using the appropriate yeast [3] this time or
  3. veering wildly and revisiting the Cereal Killer recipe from a little over a year ago.

Going with the latter means a trip to pick up some 1056 [4]. The Belgians sound good but I’ve been having a hankering for an easy drinking blonde for a while and, hey, the CK was a pretty good beer if I do say so myself.

Hope your Christmas was as good as ours. How good was ours? Well, Jim yacked on the carpet from treat/bones overload, Morton is still sporting odd bits of wrapping paper and tape on his coat, Oscar barely crawled out of his kitty bong for dinner, and Elizabeth has rearranged her shrine to feature her salt lamp while watching her new movies. It’s going to be hard to top this next year.

[1] http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/slanting-yeast-133103/
[2] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=66
[3] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=130
[4] http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=8

Winter project

Instead of washing yeast, I think this [1] is totally the way to go. Better control up front and gets one step closer to “real” brewery operations. Spreading the $10.99 (retail) cost of a yeast strain across half a dozen brews gets it down into the realm of negligible.

I need to find me a Walter White character to hook me up with all of the lab goodies.

[1] http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/slanting-yeast-133103/