Freezing & Storing Yeast
For our November 2024 online meeting Arthur Olcot gave us a run through of his process for freezing and storing yeast. A great way to try to save some money, and to build up your own little yeast bank. Here’s…
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Yeast
This month (May, 2023), we had a discussion about yeast. How do you love, nurture or abuse your yeast?
Lallemand WildBrew™ Philly Sour
This month (December, 2021), we were once again joined by Andrew Paterson (@lallemandy1 on Twitter) from Lallemand to talk to us about their Philly Sour yeast strain.
Co-fermentation – Getting The Best Out Of Using Two Strains Of Yeast Together
This month (April, 2021) we were joined by Andrew Paterson (@lallemandy1 on Twitter) from Lallemand to talk to us about co-fermentation – how to use two yeasts together effectivley your brewing. And here’s the talk on yeast nutrition that’s mentioned…
Yeast Starters
An overview and detailed discussion about yeast starters lead by Lee Immins. This was recorded during the Feburary, 2021 LAB meeting.
Culturing From A Single Cell
This month Phill Turner gave us an in-depth guide to culturing yeast from bottle dregs for use in your homebrew.
Laffort Yeasts
We had Mark Crumpton from Erben came to talk to to us at the November 2016 meeting about the idea of using of Laffort wine yeasts in beer.
How To Get The Best Out Of Your Yeast By Gillian Grafton
Reproduced with kind permission from CBA (UK) Brewers Contact – Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2006. We all know about the friendly little fungus that does the business of converting our best efforts at mashing into fine beer, but how…
Home Made Stir Plate
LAB member Dave Wilton updates us on his home made stir plate build: With the help of the London Amateur Brewers (LAB) and a few web sites I recently made a simple stir plate for propagating yeast. I presented my…