I don't suppose customs would be too happy if you were to send me some of
that cultured yeast????


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