Labels:text | newspaper OCR: Cleaner, Clearer Beers the more labor intensive two stage fermentation system in a vain attempt to rid their beers of "yeasty" or "cidery- With Liquid Yeast and Silica Gel sour" flavors invariably imparted by their lowly packet of dried yeast. Proper sterilization and even the use of a primary and secondary fermenter is basically worthless, if the yeast intro- by William Moore which impart yeasty or cidery-sour duces contamination. Home brewed beers typically have a flavors to beer. The off-flavors introduced The best one can hope for with the dry fresher and more robust flavor than by wild yeast and bacteria in dried yeast brewing yeast currently available is a commercial beers, while lacking their are obvious in lightly-hopped lagers, consistent product with the same off- extremely clean taste and sparkling while very slight in heavily-hopped beers. flavors each time, meaning the brewers clarity. Though the rough-hewn. yeasty technique is good, and the wild yeast and flavor of home beer is appealing. bacteria dried with the yeast produce the refinement is needed if our beers are to same off-flavors each batch. These have the clean flavor and sparkling flavors may be almost undetectable to clarity of the finest commercial beers. some, or even pleasing, but to others they Pure liquid yeast, by not introducing the are the glaring difference between the bacteria and wild yeast contamination Co typical home brewed beer and an added by dry yeast. refines the flavor. outstanding beer, between a yeasty and while silica gel. an additive made solely unappealingly dry beer and a clean from silica (an insoluble mineral) and balanced beer. sterile water, absorbs haze-causing The flavor differences between beers proteins. Combined, liquid yeast and brewed with dry and liquid yeast are silica gel scrub the flavor and polish the most noticable in the critical aftertaste - look of beer. if your beer tastes good on the first sip, Here at William's, we have been testing but lingers with a slight but annoying different strains of dried yeast for over 8 yeasty or - sour-acidic aftertaste (that years, in a vain search for a dried yeast makes you want to gulp more solely to that could produce the clean flavor of a wash away the aftertaste) brew your next pure liquid brewing yeast culture. At beer with liquid yeast. If, on the other present, we have given up the search. The hand, your tongue pleasantly basks in a difference between beers brewed with rich afterglow of malt and hop flavor so dry and liquid yeast is like the difference clean and vivid you want to stop and sa vor between coffee brewed from instant and the moment, you are probably already whole bean. It is possible to produce brewing with pure liquid yeast. quality dried brewing yeast by freeze- Although recently available from a few drying with laboratory equipment, and home brewing outlets, most home perhaps in the future a new dried yeast brewers have shied away from liquid plant will be built, capable of mass- yeast, as yeast starters have been needed producing quality dried brewing yeast. and liquid yeast costs about three times Currently, however, dried brewing yeast. as much as dry yeast. At a cost of $3.50 though a great convenience. cannot per pack, liquid yeast is certainly more produce the extremely clean flavor of a As the home brewing trade has largely costly than dry yeast. though yeast can pure liquid yeast culture, as drying only offered dried brewing yeasts, home easily be reused up to 4 times, and our always (under present, commercial brewers have endured the less than clean new liquid yeast is packaged in its own conditions) introduces contamination (in the form of wild yeast and bacteria) flavor imparted by dried yeasts, some fastidiously sterilizing and employing .. continued on inside cover William's Information Package STA
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