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Originally Posted by hammondc
where the hell would one get bells liquid yeast?
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Originally Posted by rack04
You would harvest it from the bottle.
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Yep, that's exactly what I did. Bell's uses the same yeast for just about all of their beers, I've read where it might be a California V strain. Not sure. Anyway, last year I salvaged some Hopslam yeast from a bottle that newcigarz sent me and propagated it up to an adequate amount. I pitched it into an IPA where it performed pretty well, and then salvaged more from the secondary. I now have about a half dozen mason jars of Bell's yeast in my frig.
Since then I've used it in a porter, IPA, IIPA, and a brown ale, all to good results.