I used US 05 in the fermenter. In the bucket - nothing.
It is not yeasty at all - nothing like I've seen before. It is a mass and if it were thicker, I bet I could pick it up whole out of the bucket.
I brewed a Pliny the Younger last Friday and left about 1 gallon of wort runoff in a bucket and sealed the lid.
Today I opened the bucket and found a thick jelly like membrane sitting on the top. Not much of a smell other than the sweet smell of the 1.050 wort. Not moldy.
The wort underneath...
No luck here or elsewhere. I've emailed and messaged Wild Leap but never get a response. A fellow brewer thinks they add lactose to the Alpha Abstraction series.
Does anyone have a clone recipe, or insight into Wild Leaps brewing process to produce something similar to Alpha Abstraction?
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