This month, (February 2026) we are honoured to have Paul Malcolm, sales manager for WHC Lab, join us for a discussion and Q&A on all things yeast. WHC, from Ireland, produce a wide range of yeasts and bacteria for the…
This month, (September 2025), Laurence McHauser gave us a talk on “Transporting Beer and 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…
This month (May, 2023), we had a discussion about yeast. How do you love, nurture or abuse your yeast?
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.
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…
An overview and detailed discussion about yeast starters lead by Lee Immins. This was recorded during the Feburary, 2021 LAB meeting.
This month Phill Turner gave us an in-depth guide to culturing yeast from bottle dregs for use in your homebrew.
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.
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…