Spanky wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I was talking to my local home brew shop guy yesterday and he told me that
> many brewerys, including Chimay, use one yeast to ferment the beer but they
> then filter out that yeast before bottling and use a different strain for
> carbonation. All of this means that even if you do manage to culture some
> of the yeast it won't be the right one to get the same flavour! Bugger.[/color]

But many of thewm _do_ use the same yeast. I know for a fact that
Chimay does, for example, in spite of what your LHBS told you. They've
acknowledged they use the same yeast, and I've bottle cultured Chimay
yeast many times. Rogue's Pacman yeast can be gotten from a bottle of
Shakespeare stout.

--------->Denny
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