Trying Out A New Blog - Yeast Propagation

I have been brewing for a few years now, and I have decided that it is time to better document my individual brew days and their results. This post will be a test of the new website and the format of the blog. Additionally, I will post some thoughts on my current yeast propagation progress.

I am propagating yeast that I obtained from Suregork via homebrewtalk.com. Two strains came in very small vials (for cheap shipping), and I pitched each of these into separate sanitized beer bottles filled with 1.040 wort boiled from wheat DME. I have been using wheat because it contains more protein than barley and therefore assume it is healthier for the yeast. It is entirely possible that this is false. Strains F1 and F1C4 were then dumped into 1000 ml or so of the same wort and fermented for a few days. This was stepped up to 1500 ml which is now fermenting and assumed to be close to done. Of note, tastings have mainly come across as more Belgian than the assumed Conan peach. F1C4 is more potent and has been flocculating less well than F1. I've included a picture. Although this could be down to fermentation times (F1C4 is often noted as lagging behind F1), I will note that F1 was still more clear than its alter ego many days after complete fermentation of the 1000 ml step.

Note: F1C4 is erroneously labeled as FC34. Whoops

I intend to pitch one or both of these into my next NEIPA, with continued propagation within the flasks of withheld slurry.