Lance Shaner of Omega Yeast Labs will be joining us at 7pm during our March 2nd Monthly Meeting for a small introductory presentation and small Q&A session.
We are also in talks of having him join us for a formal workshop when his schedule allows...so please make sure you join us on Sunday, March 2nd at 6pm!!
Awesome! Do you know if they're planning on expanding their products to homebrewer-scale yeast sales?
Yep...they are looking to launch to the home brewer consumer within the next couple months.
Lance at Omega wants to know if we would be interested in some yeast when he comes to visit in March:
"The new strain is a genetic hybrid of the DuPont saison strain (i.e., Wyeast 3724) and the French saison strain (Wyeast 3711). As far as we're aware, this is the first lab created hybrid brewing strain. In test batches, the strain ferments as quickly as the French saison strain (in other words, it does not have the troublesome characteristics of the DuPont strain). It has somewhat subdued phenolics compared to the French strain and has some of the bubble gum character of the DuPont strain. The pitches would have between 300 and 400 billion cells. I have been offering it for $8. Let me know if you guys are interested and if so, a ballpark figure on the number of pitches I should bring."
Please fill out this form if you would like to buy yeast from him when he comes to our March Member Meeting. Sign up ends 2/21/14.
Awesome! I signed up for one. I sure hope that they sell pitches in the ~300bn cell range when they go commercial. A straight pitch into a medium-high gravity 5g batch of beer would be pretty nice.
Adam, from what I understand that is going to be the case. He wants his pitches to be very homebrewer friendly.
Adam, from what I understand that is going to be the case. He wants his pitches to be very homebrewer friendly.
I picked up 1 too sounds interesting.
Being able to buy a straight pitch amount of lager yeast instead of having to make starters would be very appealing. So appealing, in fact, that it would be enough for me to exclusively use his yeast. Could we get them to setup a vending machine at the brewhouse? Get an old pop machine or something...I don't know if that's feasible, but damn would it be cool.
Also, that yeast sounds great, but saison brewing season is too far off. I like saisons fermented hot to get a lot of esters. Not too much hot going on these days...
Reminder...get your Yeast order in by Friday! Lance needs time to propogate our order.
Please fill out this form if you would like to buy yeast from him when he comes to our March Member Meeting. Sign up ends 2/21/14.
Tomorrow is the last day to sign-up to purchase the Omega Yeast sneak peak pitch.
Please fill out this form if you would like to buy yeast from Lance when he comes to our March Member Meeting. Sign up ends 2/21/14.