Beersmith Podcast

[Beer-lord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFk5MRAmApQ
A good podcast from Homebrew Con with John Palmer regarding yeast.

[Whamolagan]

Great video. This should be recommended to every person who brews beer.

[The_Professor]

That is an interesting interview.
I currently am trying to get yeast from honey going again. Quite a while ago I gathered yeast from raw honey starters. One was a bit more sour and one was more neutral. I found that further generations tended more toward mild under the conditions I was using. This is the yeast I was using for my "Sumerian Beer", and I was using it specifically because of the phrase "brewing it with honey and wine" in the Ninkasi poem where I assume it means the yeast or trub from a honey/grape fermentation (mead/wine) rather than just dumping honey/wine in it. So more yeast as opposed to a more lacto fermentation.

I have a couple of quarts of 1.036 wort to which I added a heaping tablespoon of 8/10/14 yeast harvested from honey. I hope to keep it going and use it for more "Sumerian Beer".

[Whamolagan]

You go Prof

[mashani]

in the Ninkasi poem where I assume it means the yeast or trub from a honey/grape fermentation (mead/wine) rather than just dumping honey/wine in it. So more yeast as opposed to a more lacto fermentation.

I think if you want to isolate more yeast and less "other", you may want to try to skim the top of your krausen once fermentation has settled down a bit, but the krausen hasn't fallen yet. Yeast is big and gets stuck in the top of the krausen (it's too big to fit through the "cracks" as such). Where other bugs are tiny and should fall back through the "cracks" the yeast can't fit through. The bugs can't crawl up, and gravity will tend to drag them back down. So in a covered fermenter, the top of the krausen should be more yeasty and less "othery" at that stage of fermentation. Where everything will eventually end up in the trub later.

[Kealia]

Thanks for posting this. I haven't listened to it yet, but it reminded me to download some podcasts for my flight tomorrow.