FEBRUARY 4TH, HB4L MEETING!!

[PetenNewburg]

Local Homebrewers Meeting
and new products this month
 




Our next Local Homebrewers meeting at HomeBrew4Less is this Saturday 02/04/2012 5 PM at our retail store. This month we will be discussing:

This month Topics include:
Preparing Yeast and Yeast Starters - How and when to do a Yeast Starter, and also re-hydration of dry yeast

And also

Yeast Washing - In homebrewing, you can wash your yeast in order to reuse it from batch to batch.
Washing your yeast will save you money. At $6-$10 per vial of liquid yeast, the savings add up significantly over time.
It is also a great way to reuse a yeast that performs well for you. If you like the qualities you are getting out of a certain stock of yeast, you can save it for more batches of beer.
 The process is simple and can be performed on your bottling day or when you're transferring your beer to a secondary fermenter.

Flaw Testing - Ed will also expose you to another one of his famous flaw tests where he puroposly injects a flaw in a beer, and explains it's probable causes and possible solutions on how to prevent that flaw in your brewing - these are always fun and educational!

Bring some of your homebrew to share (or optionally, some Microbrew Samples) and a friend if you like

There is no charge, so don't worry about money

Hope you can make it

Call if it looks like bad weather, we may postpone our meeting a week if it snows bad

NOTE:  ANYONE WHO ATTENDS THIS MEETING WILL GET A CHANCE TO WIN A HOMEBREWING BEER INGREDIENT KIT ON THE HOUSE (OUR CHOICE) WE WILL BE GIVING ONE AWAY EACH MEETING, SO BE SURE TO ATTEND!

Retail Store Address:
HomeBrew4Less.com LLC
890 Lincoln Way W
Chambersburg, PA 17202
 (717) 504-8534


 We intend to have regular meetings the first Saturday of each month at 5 pm, so don't forget!

[wvbrewer]

Sorry to miss it again, but I am at work now.  It looks like by the schedule the next first friday I will have off will be in may.  If any notes are given I would like a copy..  Thanks Dave

[PetenNewburg]

  Dang, missed it again!  I took a short snooze at 1PM and woke up @ 7PM  Here is a link to a youtube video on washing yeast; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3s6GiS2fo  This is a good basics link.  
  There is a little more to be more accurate.  Everything that touches the yeast should be as sterile or sanitized as possible.
  The jars to store your yeast should be boiled along with your "wash" water to make them sterile.  Keep your sterilized jars covered, I use a piece of foil and a jar ring.  If you have a "canner" for canning food, you can sterilize several jars, make your boiled wash water as well as canning several jars of starter medium.  You don;t need a special pot, I use my 2 gallon boil pot.  With this I can do several quart jars for the starter medium & several pint jars for storing the yeast.  As long as the water covers the quart jars your good to go. As an example, my preparation for making 2 x 2 quart starters.

  1.  Prepare 1.9 gallon of starter medium with LME, DME or Sparge water from a previous brew with a OG of 1.030 to 1.040.  Ratio to create a starter with DME is 1 cup per Quart of water. Bring to a full boil, remove from heat and fill 4 one quart canning jars to within 3/4 inch of jar rim, install sanitized lids and rings.
  2. Place the filled 1 quart jars into a water bath canner along with 4 empty pint jars, no lids.  Bring to boil and boil 20 minutes.
  3.  Remove quart jars and set aside to cool.  These can be refrigerated several days or even weeks in needed.  The empty jars should be drained, and securely cover with foil.
  4.  Once cooled, the boil water is used to wash yeast/ trub from your fermenter as shown in the video into the 4 pint jars you boiled.  Store your captured yeast in the refrigerator.  You now have 4 yeast starters ready for your next brews!


This will save time and money for your next brew!