Chimay Yeast Culture
(Chimay Blue Source)
Recipe:
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Wort:
2 cup of Water
1/2 cup Light DME
1/4 tsp Ammonium phosphate (nutrient)
Bottle of Chimay Blue
Equipment:
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1/2 gal growler
Air lock and stoper that fits growler
Larger crock pot.
Isopropyl Alcohol 91%
Butane torch
2008/11/01
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Cleaned and sanitized growler with bleach and water.
Filled crock pot with water to boil growler in.
Drank bottle of Chimay with friend while taking care to keep bottle covered with alcohol soaked paper towel between pours.
Boiled DME, water and yeast nutrient.
Poured wort into boiled growler, and covered with foil.
Cooled wort in cold water bath.
Cleaned inside and outside neck of Chimay bottle with alcohol.
Used butane torch to burn off alchol and further sanitize neck.
When wort cooled, dredges of Chimay were swirled up, and poured into growler.
Airlock was attached
Growler was placed in cool dark place.
2008/11/07
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Temperature at 1900 was approximately 70 F (21 C).
Growler has been swirled daily multiple times to keep yeast in suspension.
Fermentation has not started.
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Failed
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Chimay may have been pasturized!? After a month, no change.
(Chimay Blue Source)
Recipe:
*******
Wort:
2 cup of Water
1/2 cup Light DME
1/4 tsp Ammonium phosphate (nutrient)
Bottle of Chimay Blue
Equipment:
**********
1/2 gal growler
Air lock and stoper that fits growler
Larger crock pot.
Isopropyl Alcohol 91%
Butane torch
2008/11/01
**********
Cleaned and sanitized growler with bleach and water.
Filled crock pot with water to boil growler in.
Drank bottle of Chimay with friend while taking care to keep bottle covered with alcohol soaked paper towel between pours.
Boiled DME, water and yeast nutrient.
Poured wort into boiled growler, and covered with foil.
Cooled wort in cold water bath.
Cleaned inside and outside neck of Chimay bottle with alcohol.
Used butane torch to burn off alchol and further sanitize neck.
When wort cooled, dredges of Chimay were swirled up, and poured into growler.
Airlock was attached
Growler was placed in cool dark place.
2008/11/07
**********
Temperature at 1900 was approximately 70 F (21 C).
Growler has been swirled daily multiple times to keep yeast in suspension.
Fermentation has not started.
******
Failed
******
Chimay may have been pasturized!? After a month, no change.