[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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