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Wondering what steps people take to culture yeast from a capped bottle? How about a corked bottle?

Pour the beer out except for 2 or 3 oz and put some foil or an airlock on the bottle. Drink the beer. When the rest of the beer in the bottle reaches the temp of your starter swirl the sediment with the beer left and pour it into your yeast starter. Same goes for corked as for capped bottles. Flame the bottle opening before pouring. Try to use a fresh example of the beer for culturing. Good Luck!

captain carrot wrote:Pour the beer out except for 2 or 3 oz and put some foil or an airlock on the bottle. Drink the beer. When the rest of the beer in the bottle reaches the temp of your starter swirl the sediment with the beer left and pour it into your yeast starter. Same goes for corked as for capped bottles. Flame the bottle opening before pouring. Try to use a fresh example of the beer for culturing. Good Luck!

I'm trying to culture Pacman from a bomber of Shakespeare Stout. Here's hoping........

Do you flame the bottle before opening and pouring as well?

brewinhard wrote:Do you flame the bottle before opening and pouring as well?

yes, sterilization is key, use a low gravity wort also, i like mine between 1.015 - 1.020

PS you know pacmanyeast is still relatively easy to find

mediumsk wrote:

brewinhard wrote:Do you flame the bottle before opening and pouring as well?

yes, sterilization is key, use a low gravity wort also, i like mine between 1.015 - 1.020

PS you know pacmanyeast is still relatively easy to find

Yeah, my LHBS was sold out the last few times and I'm hesitant to ship yeast to Texas since we live on the sun 3/4's of the year.

Plus, I like experiments, and it meant I had to buy beer. So, win win, ya know?

+1 to the other postings. I will step it up starting with 400ml of ~1.020, then 800ml and from that point treat it as a vials worth and build aappropriate starter for the gravity beer I'm making. I let the 400 & 800 steps ferment out.

Wow, that was awesome. I was just thinking to myself that I should come here and post the question about culturing yeast from a bottle, and low and behold, there it is! The thread already made and answers already posted. Thanks a lot guys!