Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Fermentin' Away


I think the photo says it all.

We've been re-using the yeast cakes from our beers, meaning that after we transfer one beer out of the primary fermentor to the secondary fermentor, we put a new beer--or wort really--right into the "dirty" fermentor, on top of yeast that's collected at the bottom of the fermentor. Some brewers will clean and rince the yeast and put it into a clean carboy, but so far we haven't had any problems. And we're not selling our beers to the masses. Yet.

It's still lager season. The Mai Bocks share a yeast, as do the the Schwarz and the porter. We should be able to get 6-8 beers out of each yeast packet we buy.


Thanks for the photo, Tony.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

No wonder you spend so much time with Tony...

Anonymous said...

Nice looking collection. Be sure to bring some over when they are bottled and carbonated. I'll hook you up with samples of whatever I have on tap.

Don