I've been trying to learn as much as I can about wild beers. I keep coming across notes that say Pedio dies in the presence of oxygen. What does this mean?
If you pitch a mix of bugs to begin with and aerate the wort, how does the pedio survive?
If you create an environment where some small amount of oxygen can enter the beer (say a wooden barrel, or an HDPE fermenter), does this kill the pedio.
I'm having difficulty understanding how pedio can work, or survive, in any sours when every reference I read (even 'Wild Brews') says it cannot survive in oxygen.
Every beer we make we aerate the crap out of it at the start, and if we are pitching a mixed of bugs, the pedio should be severely disabled.
If you pitch a mix of bugs to begin with and aerate the wort, how does the pedio survive?
If you create an environment where some small amount of oxygen can enter the beer (say a wooden barrel, or an HDPE fermenter), does this kill the pedio.
I'm having difficulty understanding how pedio can work, or survive, in any sours when every reference I read (even 'Wild Brews') says it cannot survive in oxygen.
Every beer we make we aerate the crap out of it at the start, and if we are pitching a mixed of bugs, the pedio should be severely disabled.