New Liquid Yeast On The Market

[Saisonator]

Hopefully others may follow with it's decent pitch rate.

http://www.imperialyeast.com/

Malt Miller are going to start importing it.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Brilliant. I see that the Brulosophy guys use this. The premium should be worth it if it saves on making a starter. I wonder if it will be the cans or pouches.

 

[trueblue]

Looks good although any mention of that Brulosophy crowd is enough to put me off.

 

[Saisonator]

Brilliant. I see that the Brulosophy guys use this. The premium should be worth it if it saves on making a starter. I wonder if it will be the cans or pouches.

It's going to be in pouches.

 

[GerritT]

More choice is better. Any news on the costs per pouch?

edit: never mind, at least 30% more expensive than other liquid yeasties.

 

[Saisonator]

More choice is better. Any news on the costs per pouch?

No mention of that yet, I see it's $10 in the US. I think they need to sell it at £10 tops to have an impact on the market here.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Looks good although any mention of that Brulosophy crowd is enough to put me off.

Why?

 

[Martybhoy]

I quite enjoy reading the brulosophy experiments. Let's me know if something is worth trying or not.

 

[trueblue]

Why?

I find their "experiments" to contain little substance with a very limited tasting panel and never repeated as a true experiment should be. They seem condescending in their conclusions only wanting to believe their own limited results against established practices, at the end of the day all our tastes are different and there are many ways to brew beer. Might be the Americanism of the site and I wonder if their taste buds have been buggered by drinking over hopped American beers.

 

[Martybhoy]

I find their "experiments" to contain little substance with a very limited tasting panel and never repeated as a true experiment should be. They seem condescending in their conclusions only wanting to believe their own limited results against established practices, at the end of the day all our tastes are different and there are many ways to brew beer. Might be the Americanism of the site and I wonder if their taste buds have been buggered by drinking over hopped American beers.

It's not a peer reviewed journal, it's a blog. It's anecdotal. Like most of the advice on this, and similar forums, it's advice based on individuals experiences and not scientific fact.

Sure, they ham it up as though they were carrying out laboratory experiments, but I always enjoy reading them.

 

[MrRook]

Brilliant. I see that the Brulosophy guys use this. The premium should be worth it if it saves on making a starter. I wonder if it will be the cans or pouches.

Here in the States it comes in cans. Maybe a plastic pouch would be a little lighter and save some on shipping costs.

 

[Bigcol49]

against established practices

Hi!
Some of these "established practices" have been successfully challenged and are now part of the brewing process for hundreds of homebrewers e.g. no-chill brewing.
Brulosophy experiments give you something to think about and, perhaps, encourage you to try changes yourself.
It is interesting to note that, most of the time, there is no significant conclusion.

 

[Martybhoy]

Yeah I noticed that too. Puts your mind at rest that the small change you were thinking about, isn't going going to completely ruin your beer

 

[Simonh82]

I think for a brewing blog, they seem to be fairly rigorous about their procedures. Obviously they aren't repeating exactly the same experiement to confirm results but for instance their repeated warm fermented lager experiments, whilst shifting the variables slightly, have show that fairly conclusively that you can use SafLager W34-70 at ale temps with no discernable effects.

I do think the small sample size can be an issue, but at least they address this by using statistical techniques to identify the number of people needed to reach significance.

They also are careful never to say, "you should do it like this". They just challenge some long held brewing beliefs.

 

[-Bezza-]

Here in the States it comes in cans. Maybe a plastic pouch would be a little lighter and save some on shipping costs.

From the FAQ: While our cans have now been replaced by our new convenient pouches, we realize there are still some of our cans still out there.

So no more cans in the States, presumably.

 

[MrRook]

From the FAQ: While our cans have now been replaced by our new convenient pouches, we realize there are still some of our cans still out there.

So no more cans in the States, presumably.

Due to personal matters I haven't brewed or gone to my LHBS since September or I would have seen the pouches.

 

[-Bezza-]

Due to personal matters I haven't brewed or gone to my LHBS since September or I would have seen the pouches.

Hope you're able to get back on the brewing soon. :thumb:

 

[BeerCat]

Note for any fat bar stewards out there they have a yeast called "dieter".