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Title says it all, Has anyone used ecy dirty dozen as a secondary blend, or for bottle conditioning? I have a bottle and would like to really let the brett shine. Since this blend contains various isolates from lambics, I would expect it to do well in secodary fermentation or for bottle...

Hi everyone I encountered something interesting with wy5733 that has me stumped. So two days ago I bought a package of wyeast 5733 pediococcus, and prepared one liter of the following medium: Malt extract : 50g Peptone: 5g Yeast extract: 5g Glucose: 10g I found this on line as medium...

Hi everyone, I have succesfully isolated my first wild yeast, and would like to share my results. About 4 months ago I was malting some 2-row barley for a beer. I decided to place two kernels of germinating seed into a 10ml vial of sterilized YEPD media. I let the vial sit at room...

Hello everyone, I am looking for some help identifying some sort of fungi that I have found in one of my attempts at isolating a wild yeast. I am a chemist, not a microbiologist and need some help! The back story is around christmass I bought myself a scope as a present to myself, and...

Has anyone ever bottled a sour with dark candy syrup/sugar? Today I made some really tasty candy syrup from table sugar using the following recipe: 98.5% sucrose 0.5% L-alanine 0.5% glycine 0.5% caclium carbonate. Dissolve in the minium amount of water. Boil on low until the color...

Hello everyone, I thought I would share my experience so far with a beer I recently brewed. The recipe was as follows: 72.7% pils 14.5% torrified wheat 7.3% C80 3.6% caramunich 1.8% special B Hop to 8 IBU ( I used EKG) Mashed at 166F for 1.5hrs, yes 166. Target OG was 1.066...