would love to see a detailed freezing yeast video - I rarely harvest my yeast, but I like the idea of cutting down costs by reusing . . . just worried about the viability after washing

VERY interested in that "freezing yeast" video! Make it happen, mate!

It would be awesome to see a video on the yeast freezing, some yeast is very very expensive and harvesting jars of it to my fridge is not an option.

Yeast freezing would be great. I do the same with my yeast.

Definitely do the frozen yeast video Martin, Thanks! This rocks. Miss the Homebrew Challenge tho

Would love to see an in depth video of yeast harvest/freezing. Thanks and love the show!

Definitely wanna see the video on freezing yeast

Yes please! Freezing yeast. I'm always excited to try new stuff!

Would love to see your yeast freezing process! I always take a little off the yeast starter and store away rather than washing. I usually overbuild my starters so I have enough.

Yes please to a vid on your process of freezing yeast. I have just started reusing my yeast and tried dehydrating some, it ended up looking like beef jerky 😢😂

Yes please do a yeast freeze video. With links to the vials you use !! Thanks Martin

Yes, as someone that over builds his starters to "save a pint for next time" (easier and cleaner than washing yeast imo ), I would definitely be interested in a yeast freezing video. And by the looks of the comments, there are many brewers interested as well. And last but not least, thank you so much for all the information, entertainment and ideas that you have given us all out here in homebrew land. Keep up the good work. 👍 👏🍺

I agree :would love to see a detailed freezing yeast video 👍👍

I buy in bulk but I don't brew as often as you so I divide my grain into 2 or 3lb bags and vacuum seal them and then store them in cheap plastic bins. Keeps things out and keeps the grain fresh.

Yes, absolutely do a video on freezing yeast ASAP. That is a big interest of mine!

I've avoided liquid yeast cause it's too expensive unless you can repitch so a yeast freezing video sounds super helpful. Great vid as always btw!!

I like your video format. Its fast moving, interesting and informative.

Omg, great idea on the orientation. I just picked up 3 of these myself and did not think about the vertical position. Great idea. Cheers!

Like the review of your storage as you did on the Hombrew Challenge. Another recap on freezing yeast would be great too!

Freezing yeast video would be number 1 on my wish list!

I would LOVE to see a video on long term yeast storage!!!! Yes PLEASE.

Please do an equipment storage version of this? How do you store your hoses, fermenters, Kegging parts? How do you put away your counter flow chiller? I believe these steps go along away to making brew days easier, with easier cleaning and set up, having equipment last longer and avoiding bad beers Please also give me a shout out when you make this: John Coram, South Africa

Great content... 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Love this type of content 🍻🍻

I am really looking forward to the upcoming videos! Please keep up the great work, Martin! Loving the content!

Love the videos! Definitely a yeast freezing video would be awesome!!! Keep up the good work on putting out useful and helpful information.!

Nice video Martin. You are the exception, I would think, since you brew for video purposes. I only store one base malt at a time, usually Pilsner or Basic 2 Row Pale. I can get the entire bag into 2 - 6gal buckets with Gamma lids. I try to focus my recipes around the malts. In the warmer months I usually have Pilsner malt on hand for summer pilsners/lagers and 2 Row on hand for fall/winter ales. I only buy specialty malts when needed since there is no better price for smaller quantities. Cheers!

Y'all are the best! Please teach us how to freeze yeast!

I would love an episode that shows the fastest and most efficient way of cleaning your equipment. I feel I have a pretty good process for the actual brewing but find myself cleaning everything in the shower more often than not… These has to be some better way. Been thinking of using a enlarged version of a keg-washer for the brewhouse and feementation buckets.

Please show us how to freeze yeast. Would love to learn that process.

I do have a couple of vittles vaults, food grade buckets and other pet food bins. But I make heavy use of my vacuum sealer. Speciality grains of 3 pounds or less and all my hops, and even opened dry yeast. I want my hops to last years not 6 months. I have a label maker too, but painters tape and a sharpie is more convenient.

would love a video on harvesting and freezing yeast!

yup would love to see the freezing yeast video AND how to restart them, how much DME & water etc

You're such a tease with the outro. Of course we'd like to see the frozen yeast to pitch vid

A detailed video on freezing yeast would be great!

Yes please do a video on the yeast freezing please

Yes to a video on freezing yeast

Yes, freezing yeast video would be great

Holy guacamole, I thought I had way too many hops. I have about 40 different varieties but generally only ever use about 10. As for specialty grains, I usually vacuum seal those and keep them in a dark cupboard. Next use, I cut them at the seal, take out what I need and re-seal them. The same goes for hops btw. Those large containers Martin uses, cost about 90 Aussie bucks in Costco, so they really aren't cheap. I 35l pails from Bunnings and keep what doesn't fit in their bags inside a large lidded tub and use them first. In-between malts like Munich and Vienna, I keep in a 20l pail. Enough for 10kg.

Please do the yeast freezing video! I'm really interested in that topic

Would love video of freezing yeast!

Liquid yeast I usually order before brewing. What I always have on hand is different strains of dry yeast. It would be interesting to hear others thought on dry yeast for this purpose.

Yes please! 🥶🥶🥶

I’d actually like to hear about freezing GRAIN, as I worry about insects hatching out in longer term storage in the sealed pet-food containers. I’d buy a lot more in bulk if I could store it longer.

9:00 Yes, Please!

Do the freezing yeast video please!

Frozen yeast video FTW!!!

Martin, ever do a video seeing if you could tell a difference from a beer made in all in one system compared to a 3 vessel gravity fed system with traditional sparge?

another yes to a freezing of the yeast vid

@ 9:00 yes, please do!

I think you have just as much grain variety as my local homebrew shop 😂

I have had nothing but problems with gamma lids that I question their airtight claim. I don't use them for storage but for brewing, and both with the 2 gallon and 5 gallon lids when I know I have an active fermentation with lots of gas production I have found it a real challenge to get the lid to actually seal airtight and see bubbles in the airlock again. This level of air-tightness might not be needed for storage, but I am looking for a replacement bucket lid for brewing that will seal more reliably.

I freeze my yeast, it would be nice if you can show us some tips and tricks about that. I remember you did a video about this on the old channel, so if you think that video covers the entire topic it is pointless to make another video, but if you can show us something more it will be very interesting 👀🍺

I always make a starter and save a sample, half a pint in a pint mason jar. When it's time to brew again, 24 hr 1 liter starter with 50g DME, and save a half pint in the sanitized jar. No big song and dance with slants or yeast washing, just pitch it in before chucking the rest in the wort. Multiple generations, they bounce right back even 6+ mo later. I have only ever lost one culture involuntarily, it developed a pellicle. Oh well, good opportunity to try a new strain!

Could you do an exbeeriment where you make a recipe at two different scales by ratio (say 5 gallon and 1 gallon) and see how well that works?

I’d like to see a video on freezing yeast 👍

Please make the video on yeast freezing

My local homebrew store will give me liquid yeast that is past its date and I will take them home and often don't use them for another month or two. They have always worked just fine. Please yes, make a video on your technique of freezing yeast.

I'd be super interested in a detailed freezing yeast video. Wonder how different your take on this is compared to David Heath.

Any advice for storing grain in high humidity areas? Like FL?

How to store crushed or milled grains? How long can it be stored? Freezing is not option for me, but i can keep them at 5°C or room temp

Yes, please do the frozen yeast video

I would like to see what can be done with spent hops?

I would like to see how you freeze your yeast.

I freeze liquid yeast. Please show what you do.

Another vote for the yeast freezing video!🍻🍺

I'll hop on the yeast harvesting and freezing video bandwagon. Please do that.

I can tell you were in a silly mood for this one, the label maker bit got me haha

What about crushed grain? How would you store and for how long?

Yes, how do you freeze yeast?

I would love to see more on storing an reusing yeast. It's $10 a packet for liquid. So for most of my brews, it's 20% of the cost. When you did the homebrew challenge for all the beer styles, did you do a lot of experimenting? I know beer styles can have such a huge range on things like malt bill, hops, etc. Did you make multiples of the batches to find the best recipe?

What a vid about beer lagering for long time x small time?!

yes please to a yeast freezing video

I've got some uncrushed mixed malts from a beer kit lying around a friend of mine gave me, and they have been sitting on the shelf for probably to five years (not entirely dark, not daylight-bright, slightly below average room temperature) in a sealed plastic bag and now I wonder if they are worth the effort of trying to brew with them. The malt would cost around 20 EUR today, so it's not nothing and way more than the electricity I'd have to put in. I'm still torn.

Freeze that chit Martin 😊

I'd do anything for ur storage space!!! My house is too damn small😂

I store my grains at 89F or 32 Celsius. Very hot but very dry. Is this ok? Also, I brew with expired grains.

Are the Vittles Vaults you use the 40 or 60? Wondering if a 55lb bag of grain would fit in the 40 size when oriented as you mention.

I want the yeast freezing video.

Why not dry yeast in fridge or freezer ??

How to store dry yeast if u buy 500g packets ?

The delivery cost to Finland is horrible, any alternatives?

Did you ever tally up how many gallons of beer you could make with the amount of grain you keep on hand?

I have no idea where you are based but those Vittles Vaults are ridiculous prices in the UK !

Please make the video of freezing yeast. I did it once - they all died. I want to know what I did wrong

Let’s see the frozen yeast!

I just go vittle vault all the way. There are large, medium and small ones. I don't see any reason to re-invent the wheel.

But don't grains go stale, even in containers at room temperature? I don't think they'll keep for years.

Frozen yeast sure do it

Frozen yeast please.

Around the 6 minute mark you get into hop storage. Same crop year - I'm not surprised there's no difference. But - how do you keep that 2 year old hop fresh? Guess what, yoiu can vacuum re-seal Mylar bags. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nKmXpsWaucrSdHU.html

Why the disrespect for the dry yeast?? Should be stored below 4c

I've been freezing yeast for the past year or so and it's absolutely fantastic. I mainly do it with yeast that I might have a harder time getting my hands on later like yeasts my LHBS doesn't stock, yeast harvested from commercial beers and so on. I rarely do this with yeast I use on a regular basis as most of that is readily, and cheaply, available at my LHBS and as such I don't feel freezing, making a starter and pitching is worth the effort for those. My process for freezing might differ a bit from others as I almost always decide if I'm going to freeze a yeast or not before the brew day. If I plan to freeze it I make a yeast starter a few days before, allow it to ferment, crash it and decant from it. I then take about half the yeast and either make another starter to pitch into the beer I'm brewing or just pitch it directly. I then dilute the remaining yeast with some water, add glycerol and freeze it in 2-4 25 or 50ml vials.

freezing yeast? What is this magic that you speak of?

How much do you drink to justify this amount of raw material? Goodness gracious. I drink 1 beer a day, on average. So essentially 10 lbs of grain every 6 weeks.