Best beers to harvest yeast from

What are some good commercial beers to harvest yeast from?

I’m not looking for a particular strain of yeast just yet, just interested in trying to propagate some.

I ask because I know many breweries will add a secondary yeast strain for bottling that is different than the primary fermentation yeast

Cheers from Bourbon country

what kind of yeast do you want?

Originally posted by DA
what kind of yeast do you want?

I’ve never harvested yeast from a commercial beer. If I did, I’d choose something that uses a non-commercially available house yeast like Ommegang and Fantome.

Here’s a list of mostly sours, if that’s what your looking for.

http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2010/06/harvesting-sour-beer-bottle-dregs.html

As for Sacc strains, I’ve heard of people using Bells Two Hearted and Amber Ale. You can also harvest the Pacman strain from Rogue beers. Never done it myself though.

Originally posted by bitbucket
Most of the useful yeast strains are available from your local homebrew store, and it’s less work to buy them than to propagate them from the little bit left in a bottle.

Originally posted by bitbucketI’d be more inclined to go after bugs than yeast.

Originally posted by Quasimodo
I’ve never harvested yeast from a commercial beer. If I did, I’d choose something that uses a non-commercially available house yeast like Ommegang and Fantome.

Originally posted by joeneugs
You can also harvest the Pacman strain from Rogue beers.

Originally posted by HornyDevil

Originally posted by joeneugs
You can also harvest the Pacman strain from Rogue beers.

I thought they filtered?

Chimay Rode, Dupont Moinette, Rochefort 10, Westmalle Tripel are good and easy to inoculate from and propagate. They only use one yeast strain all the way, and these are great strains.

When I do brett beers I just pour the last inch of a bottle Orval into the fermenting beer. Works every time.