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As far as I know yes. It can mutate and start to give off flavours to the brew

I thought just as much. I'm pretty certain I've reused the slurry before.

My homebrew store gave me a little booklet from mangrove jacks detailing all the (new) yeasts. It says they aren't suitable for harvesting and re pitching. But I'm sure I've done it before. Any one else?

1. Liquid yeasts are good. If you buy the exact one you need for your recipie 2. Build a cheap stir plate. I built one with a computer fan. Some magnets and a USB power supply. You can then harvest yeast from bottles you've bought or brews you've done. I'd only use them 2-4 times though as...

Well sinice I racked it into a secondary it's been bubbling away nicely. Hadn't really heard much activity from this one during primary. Seemed to go strong for a few days then went silent. It was using OOD MJ bohemian lager yeast. I'm contemplating adding half kilo of DME to boost its final...

Welcome to the forum. I'm sure the collective knowledge here and a bit of Google translate will see you well

To be honest I'm only just getting into experimenting with yeasts myself. Built a stir plate to harvest from bottled beer and slurry from the FV. I'm sure if you have somewhere cool enough. Like under the sink as you say. It will be fine. Many a time I've juggled demijohns and FVs around the...

Just popped to the local homebrew store. These were out of date. September 2017. Quid a packet.

Got some reading and research to do. Ive actually always had good success with MJ yeasts.

Wait! What? I've been out the loop for two years that stuff was brilliant

I moved this to a secondary yesterday. Started bubbling again last night and all day today. Since it has lager yeast in I'm going to leave it another few days. In my haste I forgot to take a reading. Looked and smelled just fine. purposely brought a little yeast up because despite its low...

I never went through that much of temp control routine. But I looked back through my posts and I did make a comment about it in experimental wines thread. It jonked my memory and I now remember a couple of bottles didn't stabilise correctly and one or two were maple champagne. Which was also...

I used to say I ran out of luck. Seems you never.

As a brummie married to a geordie I know that feel

Well I work very close to Birmingham markets. And when I leave wok I can get masses of fruit and veg for next to nothing. I also forrage for stuff because as you say. I was taught well. Ive got enough room in my garden to grow stuff. Only trouble is that everything we grow manages to get eaten...

I've still got grandads mk3. Used only a few times. Mostly on root wines. Or mead.

Parsnip at the front. To the left ginger beer. That's always going. Back right simple mead

I've done maple syrup wine before. Years ago when someone gifted me a load of the stuff. Didn't turn out too bad if I recall.

When I first found a bottle of this in my late grandfather's shed I was dubious. He brewed some weird concoctions, but as a young boy I always enjoyed the collecting of the ingredients and helping him brew. A lot of his stuff was given to me when he passed away. If left to age this stuff is...

Or as it's known round here dogpoo lane. As the erm kids used to scratch off the L on the sign. Council got sick of it in the end and just removed the sign