Saving even more money on DIY CO2

[sammydee]

Hi, dunno if anyone else does this or not, but I tried it and it works great.

If you are running two CO2 bottles, you will probably be replacing them alternately. Well, instead of tipping the whole lot out and starting again with new yeast, try tipping maybe 7/8 outy and then topping up with water and sugar - withint two days yeast levels are right back up again, and it saves you having to buy yeast!

Maybe they yeast even gets more alcohol resistant as you go along... but that would be hoping for too much wouldn't it?

Sam.

 

[Yenko]

Considering the huge advantage a strain of yeast with an extra 1% or 2% alcohol tolerance would have in an environment like that and the high reproductive rate of yeast, you might gain 1 or 2 % after 10-20 bottles.

Unfortunately, it also transfers any bacterial colonies living in there on to the next bottle. Most of the time that's only an issue for alcohol that's going to be drunk; but as long as it produces CO2, it doesn't really matter what it tastes like.

Personally, I just smell my CO2 to tell wether it's started to reach its peak. It tastes like sugar and booze.

 

[sammydee]

Its an easy way to save on yeast anyway. I thought sugar was an antibiotic anyway?

 

[Yenko]

Sugar is antibiotic untill you dilute it in water. I use 2 cups to 1.5 liters of water, and by the end of it's useful life, the stuff doesn't smell like just plain sugar and alcohol, which it would if it remained sterile.

 

[Cute-n-Fury]

yenko plz dont tell me u drank that stuff lol it smells horrible lol