Wild yeast capture success
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beergolf
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If you do not know what you have then it is a crap shoot. If it is just yeast, then a few weeks will be fine. If you got brett, lacto, pedio etc. Then it can take a lot longer. That is why I did a quick one gallon batch to see what happened. My culture seems to be pure and the brews I have done with it have not changed with aging so I am guessing that it is just a wild yeast.
A dozen or so times using this yeast has made some really good brews.
Greg1Cruickshank
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The longest I've 'stepped' mine up
Was 6 months in a 1 gallon extract batch. My post said I harvested in fall, that was an error - it was spring.
After 6 or so months I did have a pellicle which made me think maybe Pedio??
I'd love to bottle sooner than 6+ months but I'd also like to avoid gushers/ bottle bombs. Obviously without knowing what I have you cant really 'prescribe' a course of action? I get that- but how did YOU know when you bottled that it wasn't going to change much? Or do you just sort of gamble on it?
