Coopers Yeast

[chovain]

How about just:

"Gulf Beer"

Can I have my T-shirt now?

 

[Steve]

How about just:

"Gulf Beer"

Can I have my T-shirt now?

Que? Wrong thead Mark
Try this one:

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=15553

Cheers
Steve

 

[jdsaint]

:icon_offtopic: can I use dextrose to make a yeast starter? As I currently have 2 largies of cpa and want to brew my next batch of brew thursday!

 

[AndrewQLD]

:icon_offtopic: can I use dextrose to make a yeast starter? As I currently have 2 largies of cpa and want to brew my next batch of brew thursday!

NO!!!!
You must use malt or wort. I can't imagine how bad that yeast will be when you finally pitch it in your wort.

Andrew

 

[Bribie G]

Dextrose would kick the yeast along for a while but lacks nutrients, a bit like feeding kids on pure rice as happens in some third world countries, and they end up disease ridden and runty. However nothing wrong with say a half and half mix of dex and LDME.

 

[jdsaint]

I have brewing sugar? dont have malt as yet.

 

[AndrewQLD]

I have brewing sugar? dont have malt as yet.

If your culturing yeast for a specific reason ie, you want the yeast to contribute it's characteristics to your brew then you need to treat the yeast when culturing with care or you will mask any of the desirable attributes with off fermentation flavours and aromas from stressing the yeast at a critical stage, when it is multiplying.

I can't remember ever reading White labs or Wyeast recommending anything but wort to be used as a growing medium for a healthy yeast, but I am happy to be proven wrong.

However if you just want to culture up some yeast and aren't worried about getting a good clean viable pitch then use dextrose or sugar or mix them with malt, but don't expect it to be like Coopers Yeast, for that matter you may as well just use a generic dry yeast.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[troopa]

Brewing sugar as in BE2 ?

That should be fine

Tom

 

[dpadden]

100% agree with Andrew here, if you want to brew a Coopers style beer then culture it up correctly with LDME

 

[jivesucka]

easier said than done after drinking a few bottles of coopers. i have a pdf i often refer to that i found in another thread

View attachment coopers_bottle_yeast.pdf