Harvesting Yeast From Coopers Sparkling Ale

How to harvest yeast from Coopers Bottle Conditioned Beers. Don't try this method with anything but Coopers.

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Education

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• yeast
• culture
• culturing

[steeljan]

It'll be neat to follow this, thanks. There's a vid at makebeer showing this same thing but I can't remember if he just used dextrose or not. Good luck with this, Salud!

[weirdbeer]

@steeljan Thanks. I'm excited too! I didn't realize that makebeer did the same thing when I originally had this idea. I hope he doesn't mind

[brewinathome]

Hmm.. I have never made a starter with any Dextrose, I have only used DME.

[weirdbeer]

@brewinathome Well I wouldn't normally recommend it. But I'm just doing what Coopers told me to.

[weirdbeer]

@brewinathome Well I wouldn't normally recommend it. But I'm just doing what Coopers told me to.

[PeiHomeBrewer]

I still maintain that is a pretty strange way to make a starter (using dextrose alone), but since I never made a yeast starter before, I will wait until the 'experts' chime in. Nige, where you at?

As always, great video.

[weirdbeer]

@PeiHomeBrewer I don't think its a great way either, but you saw the quote from the guy at Coopers. He says they put in enough nutrients and whatever to keep the yeast happy enough to be re hydrated using dextrose alone. If thats true the theory makes sense. And it is their yeast after all. Who are we or anyone else to tell them they don't know THEIR OWN yeast.

[MrCOLTSR2]

works with any unpasteurised bottle conditioned beer with real yeast sediment...why make such a fuss over coopers which isnt THAT great a beer anyway!...there are lots of better strains of yeast to choose from with more going for them than Coopers Sparkling Ale!.. .AND ALL OF THEM RESPOND THE SAME AS boring old coopers crap!..so my advice is DO TRY THIS METHOD WITH ALL BOTTLE CONDITIONED BEERS ITS PISS EASY!..OH FORGET THE DEXTROSE BOLLOCKS AND use THE MALT YOU intend TO USE IN THE FINAL brew!

[jmaros15]

Not sure if you know but coopers sparkling ale has a best after date not best before date.

As long as the storage temperature doesnt overly fluctuate it keeps geting better week by week month by month just like your home brew.

Checking the carton date will give you a good idea of its age and maturity :)

[SgtMantis]

@85Aheadstix Really??? Are you aware of what this video is about? He is harvesting the sediment or YEAST! at the bottom of the bottle, rolling is a way of mixing things up without tossing the carbonation.

[85Aheadstix]

Your supposed to role the bottle!!!!!.

[moedogger21]

Sounds like a great test man but i make all of my starters out of malt extract. cant wait to see the final result.

[yartp]

@weirdbeer I think the method is fine so long it's used to make another starter out of malt and probably once more. At that point it should be all systems go.