How To Harvest and Wash Yeast for Homebrewing

In this tutorial video we show you how to harvest, wash, and save yeast for homebrewing. This is an important process to know if you want to save money or preserve unique strains of yeast. We're doing this in order to save some wild yeast so we can use it for future beers. The equipment needed to follow along with this tutorial is very basic and affordable. Most homebrewers should already have the equipment in this video or equipment that can easily be substituted. We learned this process largely from the Chop & Brew homebrewing channel, we highly recommend you check them out to learn more about homebrewing. This process starts with leftover beer and dregs from the bottom of a fermenter that contained a sour brown ale that was fermented with wild yeast from wood. In the next video we show you how to make a yeast starter. You have to make a yeast starter in order to use your harvested and washed yeast to ferment a beer. Check out the resources below for the second part of this series, our log beer videos, brewing equipment, and an interesting article about a yeast company that is reviving ancient and rare strains of yeast.


P2: How To Make a Yeast Starter: youtu.be/I8jhJI_teYU

Full Article: clawhammersupply.com/blogs/moonshine-still-blog…
Log Beer 1: youtu.be/tSShSpM2VF4
Log Beer 2: youtu.be/V9kYooHmQ44
BIAB System: clawhammersupply.com/
Article About Omega Yeast: chicagobusiness.com/innovators/craft-beer-brewe…

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