Brett3rThanU
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This is my second time brewing the 100% Brett IPA from The Mad Fermentationist. The first time I used the Brett Trois mentioned in the recpice, which I know really isn't Brett, but this time I used some dregs built up from a bottle of Crooked Stave Hop Savant (100% Brett). The first time it was a fruit bomb as mentioned in the tasting notes on his page, but with the Crooked Stave dregs, holy moly, it's like a completely different beer. Smell is fruit as before, but taste is dominated with funk, slight bitterness and some mango/pineapple notes. This is the kind of funk I've been wanting to get out of my saison brett beers, but have never achieved. I really thought 100% brett fermentations were suppose to be fruit dominant so I was quite shocked to get funk. My question is how? Is it just the special brett from crooked stave or what?
EDIT: Funk was there after only 10 days, kegged at the 3 week mark.
EDIT: Funk was there after only 10 days, kegged at the 3 week mark.