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Our Yeast Bank

Using any one of a variety of techniques, it is relatively easy to maintain your own yeast bank with a variety of different brewing yeasts. We use a large bar-fridge to store them in, which we periodically clean thorougly, and sanitize with Dettol. Until July, 1996, we were propagating our yeast in beer bottles, but have since then switched to doing them on on agar, in tiny mason jars. The main advantages the mason jars have over the beer bottles is that they take up much less space, and remain viable over many more generations since they are grown on agar. We could save even more space by growing our yeast on real petri dishes, but we save a lot of money by using mason jars, instead.

 

Our Yeast Bank

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