Comment on Trying to capture wild yeast
dumples@piefed.social 1 month ago
If you are really interested in capturing wild yeast I would recommend reading Wild Crafting Brewer. There’s a ton of information on great wild yeast sources.
I don’t think oak leaves were a specific example but it’s everywhere. He recommend flowers, fruit and pinecones as great sources
Thanks for the hint! I don’t see myself having time for an entire book anytime soon, but I’ll certainly put it on my list.
The oak litter idea stems from more recent studies where IIRC they found that brettanomyce is rarely found on the skins of fruit, only in vineyards where they dump their pomace (?) below the actual tendrils, but in forest floors and most particularly in oak litter.
If you’re interested, I posted a link to a video by suigeneris brewing where Bryan explains just the above somewhere here in the thread.
dumples@piefed.social 1 month ago
I’m sure it’s going to work great. Wild yeasts are everywhere.
I recommend that book because it’s all about brewing with things you forage using simple brewing methods. So you won’t find a recipe for a traditional “beer” but lots of things like lemon and mugwort “beer”. I got it this winter and can’t wait to try it out
Sounds nice! Why not keep us in the loop and post updates here :)
dumples@piefed.social 1 month ago
For sure. It’s not a traditional brewing at all using brown sugar with herbs instead of malt. I’m happy to share some results