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Bierview
Advanced Member
Username: Bierview
Post Number: 608
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 67.83.200.90
| | Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 - 08:08 pm: | 
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Is it possible to culture the yeast from the bottles of, "La Fin Du Monde" & "La Chouffe"? I've heard some of the breweries are starting to pasteurize. |
Kevin Kowalczyk
Advanced Member
Username: Itsfunbrewingbeer
Post Number: 808
Registered: 10-2007
Posted From: 209.252.39.59
| | Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 - 08:16 pm: |
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I have cultured the yeast from a bottle of Unibroue--I don't think it was La Fin Du Monde though. It worked fine, I stepped it up and brewed a nice Tripel with it. |
Tony Legge
Intermediate Member
Username: Boo_boo
Post Number: 475
Registered: 05-2005
Posted From: 174.116.59.12
| | Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 - 08:53 pm: |
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Most breweries that use a yeast that was developed for their particular brew, will kill off their yeast after fermentation and use a bottling yeast to carb with so as to prevent pirates stealing their strain.
At least that is what I have read, and it may not apply to those yeasts in the brews mentioned above. |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 10898
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.141.103.148
| | Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 - 10:00 pm: |
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Unibroue bottles with the same yeast as for fermentation. Their beers (apart from possibly their ho-hum lagers) are not pasteurized. I had no problem culturing the yeast from a bottle of Maudite. It's also available as Wyeast 3864. |
Bierview
Advanced Member
Username: Bierview
Post Number: 609
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 67.83.200.90
| | Posted on Friday, November 06, 2009 - 12:21 pm: |
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Bill,
Are the beers I mentioned above bottling yeast? |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 10900
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.141.103.148
| | Posted on Friday, November 06, 2009 - 12:47 pm: |
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I don't know about Achouffe's beers (this yeast is also supposedly available as Wyeast 3522 and White Labs WLP550). Unibroue uses different strains for some of their beers, but the ones most of us tend to associate with the brewery, including La Fin du Monde, use the same strain for fermentation and bottling. As I said, it's also available as Wyeast 3864. |
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