Bootleg Biology

Make truly unique beer by fermenting with your very own local yeast. With Bootleg Biology’s Backyard Yeast Wrangling Tool Kit you can capture wild yeast by simply stepping outside. The kit includes everything the experimental homebrewer needs to capture wild bugs, create agar plates, and isolate yeast. Includes: Detailed instruction book & web-based content Half-gallon capture vessel Bug membrane systems Sterile cotton swabs Test tubes Pipettes Bootleg Biology’s Wild Yeast Agar blend Sterile petri dishes ParaFilm Bootleg Biology Fermetrics™ stickers The famous Bootleg inoculation loop (a paper clip) Also includes a Free Local Yeast Project Contributor pack! Once you’ve isolated a strain, becoming a Contributor is as simple as sticking a cultured swab in the included envelope and dropping it in a mailbox. Postage is pre-paid in the U.S.! As an added bonus: If you send your viable local yeast culture to Bootleg Biology, it will be banked in their laboratory freezer! You won’t ever have to worry about losing your fantastic local yeast culture.    

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Great deal! Get Bootleg Biology’s Wild Yeast Agar Blend and 3 sets (30 plates) of sterile petri dishes. Pickup this combo and make enough agar plates to go crazy streaking, isolating wild yeast AND brewer’s yeast! Petri dishes are 90mm size, larger than 60mm dishes included in Yeast Wrangling Tool Kit…increasing the ease of isolating a colony on the first try.  

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