Recent content by ifso215

The Mt. Scio Savoury is definitely a unique one... It is unlike the same species grown anywhere else because of the microclimate and soil chemistry of the farm... Definitely worth looking into if not for cooking purposes alone. Re: Body, one of the best examples of addressing that issue is...

What kind of yeast are you using? I want to try a gruit cider as well, I'm sitting on close to a pound of sweet gale that I need to use. Being in Canada, have you considered adding Mt. Scio Savoury from Newfoundland? I've got a large bag of that for when I cook my grandmother's recipes and the...

To somewhat answer my own question for those interested: I received info off a sell sheet from a shop, it turns out Southyeast has a native cider strain. They are currently producing only for production breweries until their commercial lab is up and running (end of 2015). Here's the info...

I'm intrigued by what this company is doing and will be near a homebrew shop that carries many of their strains soon... Has anyone pitched these strains in cider? The P1 Musserweissen strain sounds very interesting, it produces banana and clove notes in beer like a German wheat yeast, but was...