<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Using bottle conditioned beer to get access to live yeast cultures is an old home brewers trick when it was hard to get access to good yeast. </div><div><br></div><div>Also if the beer tastes good don't worry about contamination. I might be a bit concerned about over carbonation though. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 14 Mar 2013, at 10:49, Frantisek Apfelbeck <<a href="mailto:algoldor@yahoo.com">algoldor@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span>Hi to all,</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span><font size="2">I have just harvested/bottled first batch of alcoholic ginger beer: 0.5% (w/v) of bakers yeast; 20% (w/v) of light brown sugar; 4% (w/v) of ginger (left in the brew during the fermentation); culture volume = 5 l; and it went OK. I started I on 2/3/2013 and harvested today 14/3/2013 so quite quick. It is still fermenting a bit. I am sure that I have contaminated it with some bacteria etc. so I will have to keep it cold but the sweetness is fine and it has the kick, no question about that so I can announce a basic success! (o the fermentation temperature was around 25C).</font></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style',
'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I have started the same batch again but instead of fresh yeast I used 350 ml of freshly harvested ginger beer for the new batch, wondering what is going to happen :-)</span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Anyway that is a short info about the experiment, I will make a blog post on it and share it later on. The bigger experiments
which I was talking about are still planed but it will have to wait a little bit I got kind of busy.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thanks for recommendations from previous conversations I will get back to them soon!</span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Sincerely,</span></div><div style="font-family:
'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>FAA </span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">PS I need to get hygrometer to measure the specific gravity ... </div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck<br><br></div><div style="font-family:
'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker</div><br><br><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org">http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org</a></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi<br></div></div></div></blockquote></body></html>