Commercial Yeast

cannondale · Post by **cannondale** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:52 am

For those who have experience culturing commercial yeast strains from their favourite bottles, is it worth the effort? What sort of results have you gotten, and what are some of the better candidates from which to harvest yeast?

mjohnston · Post by **mjohnston** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:47 pm

I've done it with Hoegaarden with some reasonable results. I haven't done it enough though to say conclusively.

Do keep in mind, however, that some bottle conditioned beers use different yeasts for priming than for primary fermentation. Tends to be more common on higher alcohol beers.

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:25 pm

Twice I have tried to get the Alesmith IPA yeast to start up again but to no avail.

Just got my hands on 7 new bottles, I will keep trying because the end result could be wonderful.

Also heard it was quite feasible with SNPA.

The_Jester · Post by **The_Jester** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:58 pm

mjohnston wrote:I've done it with Hoegaarden with some reasonable results. I haven't done it enough though to say conclusively....

Substitute "Schneiders" for "Hoegaarden".