[PLUG-TALK] making/faking cheap beer for slugs - correction
Michael Rasmussen
michael at jamhome.us
Sun Jun 10 15:51:17 UTC 2012
Correction: the slugs did not take to the soured beer. Keep it clean.
Boil, cool quickly, get a yeast starter in soon as possible, seal against
atmosphere.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 08:46:21AM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:00:43AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > The good thing about yeast is that it can grow and multiply. So
> > the trick is making slug slop with the proper nutrients for yeast
> > reproduction, without helping something nasty reproduce instead.
> > I assume that means sterile conditions and skill so that the yeast
> > are the only living things involved.
>
> That's correct. But Jennifer has been feeding slugs soured beer
> and they seem to take to it just fine. Thus your sterile and
> contamination concerns, while great for beer making, are unneeded for
> slug-bait making.
>
> Dissolve five pounds sugar in five gallons of water heat to boiling,
> quickly cool, add yeast. In four days it will taste terrible and be
> slug ready.
>
> > I also assume that if I keep
> > things clean, I can dilute mature yeasty slop with more sterile
> > raw materials and get fast reproduction. Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
> > yeast have a two hour generation time at 30C, so the real problem
> > may be preserving uncontaminated starter between batches.
>
> Very correct. Brewers will "pitch" (add) wort (the prepared malt sugar water/hop tea)
> onto the fallen out of suspension yeast cake at the bottom of a fermenter.
> For that matter one important way to keep beer sanitized is to start with a large
> active yeast culture - a quart or so for a five gallon batch.
>
> Keith, sorry I didn't mention it before. Rather than asking for spoiled beer, which is
> pretty rare because the process just isn't that hard, put out the call for
> "can I have your trub the next time you bottle" and then be there at bottling time with
> a gallon jug to harvest. Quickly get that into prepared sugar water and you'll be ready to go.
>
> Hops also provide some (some, not lots) of anti microbial benefit. You can add them to the
> slug-bait for the aromatic enjoyment.
>
>
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