Worst Monday EVER…Brewing Is Off
So between the three of us, you’d think Joel, Jonathan or I could remember to pick up some yeast for a new batch of IPA. Turns out we can’t. The lack of a fermenting agent and the cold weather have depressed us so much that we’ve decided to cancel brewing. We’ll be back in the saddle next Monday…
Jonathan, Joel & Jeff
April 14th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Are you guys making a batch every Monday night?! Wow, and I thought I made alot of beer!
April 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Ain’t it fun when Monday lives up to its reputation…
April 15th, 2008 at 6:44 am
that blows. good reason to keep a pack or two of US-05 or knottingham in the fridge, though. week off never hurts, though, you’ll probably be that much more stoked next monday. great site, btw, fun reading!
April 15th, 2008 at 8:12 am
You guys don’t re-use your yeasts? We’ve had great luck with bottling and re-using our yeasts the last 6 months or so. At first I was a little sketched out about the process because everyone makes it sound real simple, but it totally is. You just take the traub from the secondary and dump it into a sanitized beer bottle, put a bung on it and throw it in the fridge. After a week or so you cap up the bottle and it’s good. I just fired up a London Ale yeast from January without a problem. I had one from October that probably would have fired, but I dumped it because I was getting new yeasts once this batch was done.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Travis, we do reuse yeast but we have good reason to believe that our last two beers got some wild yeast up in there, so we want/need to start with some fresh yeast and a good starter.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I agree with Angry Ogre… Keep some dry yeast on hand. You’ll never be caught off-guard like this.
Or, since you guys now have your fancy conical fermenters, start harvesting your yeast into multiple containers, so that you have your own house yeast ready as a backup in case something happens to a batch.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am
The fateful “forgetting of the yeast.” We’ve definately done the same. By we I mean it was my fault but that’s neither here nor there. You plan and you plan and somehow it happens every now and again.