Brewers Yeast: A Chicken Conundrum

[Sequel]

Maybe you should! Hubby has a honey wheat ale going right now. He picked up some all natural blueberry flavoring as well to flavor half of it when its done.
Backyard enablers.com !
You've got your fresh eggs, maybe fresh garden food, why not have some fresh beer!
My girls loved the warm mash from the cooking process.

Not trying to enable or anything....

 

[jeepgirl13]

I wonder if that is an actual site...

I'm too scared to check though... the internet is a scary place sometimes...

If not, BYC needs to buy the domain and just have it reroute traffic here

 

[jeepgirl13]

@Sequel

I just found this website about washing and reusing the yeast from your beer for the next batches.

https://homebrewacademy.com/yeast-washing/

Another site (https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/34558/how-can-i-make-nutritional-yeast) led me to find the link about washing your yeast for reuse.

There is a great comment on that second link that explains how to make "nutritional" or brewers yeast, from the gunk, or "trub", as I've learned its technical name. (Since I feel confident from my research they are indeed the same thing.)

The first comment explains how to culture the yeast, but if you're brewing, you've already got the yeast cultured. To harvest the yeast, siphon off the beer from the trub in the primary ferment stage, add a gallon of boiled, then cooled, water and shake it up well. You then let it sit, article says about 20 minutes, and the trub will settle on the very bottom, with a layer of milky white on top. That milky stuff is your yeast!!

You'll want to carefully pour the yeast off into another sterile container, add some more boiled, then cooled, water, and repeat the shake and wait steps. This helps to "purify" your yeast and remove even more of the "trub", which give the yeast the bitter flavor. (The bitterness comes from the hops I believe I read, removing all that particulate removes the bitterness.)

Now here, to make the yeast edible, you pour off the yeast and let it settle. Siphon off as much water as possible, pour the yeast out on sterilized foil in a pan. Bake it in the oven on low heat until its dried out completely. This baking process kills off the live yeast and makes it safe for consumption.

If you were reusing this yeast for your next batch of beer, you would skip the baking process and store it in a sealed jar in the refrigerator.

Baking the yeast seems to be a very important part of the process. Idk what happens when you eat live yeast the way you would nutritional yeast, but I'm guessing the results aren't pleasant....

I believe someone mentioned earlier they think a centrifuge might be necessary. While it can be used to hasten the process of removing the heavier trub from the lighter yeast, and may provide a purer end product, it is no way a necessity, more of a convenience!

 

[jeepgirl13]

Now, to share that information with the hubs and get the boxing ring set up before he gets home. I know hes gonna wanna keep it to culture for his next batch. Last man standing gets the yeast from his trub.

P.S. if you haven't said trub outloud yet, you probably should. It's a funny word I'm learning theres all kinds of funny terminology in brewing.

 

[jeepgirl13]

And, speaking of enabling, my friend back in Arizona just called. She stopped by goodwill today, and found someone had donated a whole brewery set up.

Carboys, a ton of cases of wine bottles, an auto-fill for bottling, a filtration system for the wine, and a big old box of brand new filters.

Those filtration systems are like 300 bucks new. She bought it for 50, along with the filters and a few other things, then called me as soon as she got to the car.

Hubs was just saying yesterday he really really REALLY wanted to invest in a filtration system for the wine. So I told her to hold it all for me and I'll buy it from her.

Shes going back tomorrow to check for a floor Corker since they didnt have all the stuff that was dropped off in that load out yet.

This means I'll be buying all this stuff for less than I'd spend on the filtration system alone. I cant even believe it

 

[Sequel]

I wonder if that is an actual site...

I'm too scared to check though... the internet is a scary place sometimes...

If not, BYC needs to buy the domain and just have it reroute traffic here

I was just kidding, and it didn’t create a link so maybe it’s available! This is a really interesting thread, yeah?

 

[Sequel]

And, speaking of enabling, my friend back in Arizona just called. She stopped by goodwill today, and found someone had donated a whole brewery set up.

Carboys, a ton of cases of wine bottles, an auto-fill for bottling, a filtration system for the wine, and a big old box of brand new filters.

Those filtration systems are like 300 bucks new. She bought it for 50, along with the filters and a few other things, then called me as soon as she got to the car.

Hubs was just saying yesterday he really really REALLY wanted to invest in a filtration system for the wine. So I told her to hold it all for me and I'll buy it from her.

Shes going back tomorrow to check for a floor Corker since they didnt have all the stuff that was dropped off in that load out yet.

This means I'll be buying all this stuff for less than I'd spend on the filtration system alone. I cant even believe it

Oh that’s just crazy! Good for you! Yes a real corker is huge!!! When we bottled wine I borrowedMy uncle’s. I couldn’t imagine trying to cork with those hand clamp things. When you get the stuff be sure to post some pics!

 

[jeepgirl13]

Oh that’s just crazy! Good for you! Yes a real corker is huge!!! When we bottled wine I borrowedMy uncle’s. I couldn’t imagine trying to cork with those hand clamp things. When you get the stuff be sure to post some pics!

This is the filtration system she got. She hasn't sent pics of the other stuff yet. As soon as she does I'll share them!

It didn't create a link cuz of the space I think. Www.Backyardenablers.com let's see if that works. I just typed it in. Might come up something different on google. report back brave soul who dares to venture forth

I wasnt super interested in the brewing hobby until I realized I/my birds/my garden could be benefitting from the trub. That word is funny to me still, carboy is too. When that clicked, I became veeeeeerrrry interested

I'm glad you've found it interesting! I hope others have as well! Weve got a good ferment going on this beer here now. Soon that gunk will be mine

 

[jeepgirl13]

As for the corker, fingers crossed there is one. But, with all the gear she mentioned, I would be kinda surprised to find out there wasnt one.

Hubby rented a floor corker the first time he bottled his mead and they came out wonderfully. The second time be borrowed a hand held corker, and that thing was a disaster. I'll get you a pic of that mess tomorrow, if he didnt drink that bottle yet. Lol

 

[Sequel]

This is the filtration system she got. She hasn't sent pics of the other stuff yet. As soon as she does I'll share them!

It didn't create a link cuz of the space I think. Www.Backyardenablers.com let's see if that works. I just typed it in. Might come up something different on google. report back brave soul who dares to venture forth

I wasnt super interested in the brewing hobby until I realized I/my birds/my garden could be benefitting from the trub. That word is funny to me still, carboy is too. When that clicked, I became veeeeeerrrry interested

I'm glad you've found it interesting! I hope others have as well! Weve got a good ferment going on this beer here now. Soon that gunk will be mineView attachment 1940801 View attachment 1940802 View attachment 1940805

It didn't go anywhere, haha! That's a terrific find! I also didn't realize corks came in different sizes, I don't think we'd have been able to shove those #9's or whatever the number was in with a hand one.