Get advice on making beer from raw ingredients (malt, hops, water and yeast)
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gnutz2
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by gnutz2 » Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:54 pm
I know what the wind up is now.
Coopers kits make great beer
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pas8280
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by pas8280 » Sun Jan 01, 2012 10:08 pm
Normski wrote:pas8280 wrote:
I have been looking at buying 500g packs of dried US05 and splitting myself, this amount would last me all next year and as my beer tastes lean towards IPA's and pale hoppy ones I think the way ahead for myself personally is back to dried yeast.
Paul
Hi Paul
I have been thinking along the same line myself. But with SO4. Might be a way to start a Yeast Swap on here.
Norm
Yeah I'm up for that cheapest I have found is from beer republic will pm you when I buy mine prob mid January. We just need someone buying Nottingham in bulk now
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Martin G
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by Martin G » Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:07 am
The Slaughterhouse Brewery in Warwick were using dried Nottingham yeast when I did a tour last year. He said he sells ingredients to home brewers, I've not bought from him as I go to Brewlabs and Malt Miller. Some people on here make a good point about supporting home brew shops, all I would say is that the Slaughterhouse is only a small 4 barrel brewery.
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SamT
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by SamT » Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:31 pm
Never realised it was dear - all of my recent brews have either been with yeast provided by my very generous local brewery, or scrouged from the bottom of a bottle ...
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MikeG
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by MikeG » Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:37 pm
Spud395 wrote:MikeG wrote:It seems to me that you can go to great lengths to save a bit of coin on some of the ingredients. Maybe you'll save 50p on a 23 litre brew: whoopee! I just bite the bullet and pay just under a couple of quid on a pack of Safale-04. The end result is that the beer comes out dead tasty, clear and alcoholic - predictably. If you spend a whole day mashing, boiling, cooling, ... and then put some dead yeast into your hard won wort ....and then not find out for several weeks that you have to chuck the lot in the compost heap it has got to be wrong. My last AG cost 32p per pint;
Don't fight it.
Mike.
Not all about saving money Mike, S-04 is fine, but it will not do the job on a lot of beers.
Re-using yeast and yeast management are all parts of the brewers art!
Yes, fine but this thread has wandered; the first post was:
akka lakka wrote:hi i can not understand why a packet of safe lager yeast costs more than a 100 gram pack of hops,i use worcester hop shop for my goodies and even the safe ale 04 has gone up,am i just being tight fisted and having a winge i am going to have to place my order soon as stocks running low i will just have to pay up and look happy,wonder what other brewers think of yeast prices
and the theme of the thread has largely been on cost. I say don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar. ...at the same time I see that it's good to use more interesting yeasts but that's not the point.
Mike.
