Collecting Culture from My Cats

[sudbuddy]

You can have all of my nopes. I'd try the vagina beer though, lord knows it wouldn't be the first time I had that kind of yeast in my mouth

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

This needs an article - a well written article, properly punctuated, and grammatically correct article.


...with pictures of course......

But not phone pictures... Color corrected photos at a minimum resolution of 300 PPI.

This thread has inspired me. I'm going to tape a bunch of agar plates to my cat and send it outside to see what wild yeast it comes back with. I'll call it Remote Yeast Wrangling

 

[drainbamage]

Also...I know the name is already taken in the recipe section, but if you don't name this "The Cat's A$$", you're doing us all a disservice. :cross:

 

[PlexVector]

Why stop there? I say pitch the whole cat.

I've pitched my cat many times: always lands on its feet and always comes back for more!

 

[SnakeRidge]

Didn't Rogue do a Beard Beer? I, of course, keep my beard immaculate. I did not once find a Cheeze-It in my beard about 6 hours after eating lunch. Others are not so meticulous though.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

If you get a hangover from this beer, you would just need to drink some more of "the hair of the cat that bit you"

 

[Pyg]

You can have all of my nopes. I'd try the vagina beer though, lord knows it wouldn't be the first time I had that kind of yeast in my mouth

Cant possible taste any worse than what you pick up at "last call". Or maybe that is just my experience!

This thread has me going back and forth between gagging and laughing.

None for me, no, no, no no...
I am just going to sit back and observe!

 

[tagz]

Saison Toxoplasmosis?

 

[rekoob]

I'm having a hard time figuring out if this is a joke... If it is, GOOD ONE!
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If not, ... huh? :beard:

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

If you get a hangover from this beer, you would just need to drink some more of "the hair of the cat that bit you"

I've heard Jim Koch of Sam Adams eats cat hair before he drinks to avoid hangovers.

 

[Barley_Bob]

So a few weeks ago I decided to see if I could get a yeast/bacteria culture started from my cats (Aerolite and Luna). I was inspired by a few beer blog articles about spontaneous fermentation and wanted to give it a try.

In your defense, where do we all think the yeast in a spontaneous fermentation comes from? The crap that lands in the wort is coming from somewhere, and plenty of it could be animal borne (and from more disgusting animals than cats).

This still has a serious ick factor, though.

 

[TheCADJockey]

(and from more disgusting animals than cats).

No such thing.

 

[TAK]

Why stop there? I say pitch the whole cat.

The worst thing you can do to a cat beer is over-pitch the cat. Go to mrmalty.com, enter your cat's birthday to determine the percentage viability of your cat, and calculate the proper amount of cat to pitch. Hopefully you've been keeping your cat in the refrigerator, the viability calculated makes that assumption.


In all seriousness though, I'm interested in your results, well, it'll be interesting if it turns out. I'd say though, for this to really have a shot at turning out, you should plate it out, isolate colonies, build up from individual colonies, and see if any make a decent beer.

 

[nthammer]

 

[burninator]

In your defense, where do we all think the yeast in a spontaneous fermentation comes from? The crap that lands in the wort is coming from somewhere, and plenty of it could be animal borne (and from more disgusting animals than cats).

This still has a serious ick factor, though.

For the record, nobody is saying cats are disgusting. Evil, yes, but not necessarily disgusting.

 

[sudbuddy]

For the record, nobody is saying cats are disgusting. Evil, yes, but not necessarily disgusting.

No? Then I'm saying it now. Cats are DISGUSTING, absolutely floccin gross! But I'm a dog person so I guess I'm biased

 

[Barley_Bob]

For the record, nobody is saying cats are disgusting. Evil, yes, but not necessarily disgusting.

I don't like cats, and they are fairly disgusting. I thought about getting a cat once, but I just started pooping in a box instead. But dogs are disgusting too, and I generally like them. I would be equally disturbed if the OP were culturing yeast and bacteria off of a dog.

There are more disgusting animals. Chickens, raccoons, opossums, rats, and cockroaches leap immediately to mind.

If the OP were petting the slime off the back of a New York City rat and using it to ferment wort, we would be crossing a whole extra line of nasty.

 

[JonM]

Leo Lambic?
Funky Felis Flanders?

Aerolite's Alliterative Amber Ale?

 

[stratslinger]

Wow.

Just wow.

Also: I'm morbidly tempted to go and try this with my three cats. I'm sure that'll end well.

Also: for the record, as the owner of 3 cats, I feel I can speak as an authority on this: I agree, cats can be (and very often are) absolutely disgusting.

 

[burninator]

I stand corrected.

 

[Oldskooler]

I'm just gonna subscribe to this thread. Not sure why, but I am

I'm in for the same reason. I must say this thread is the funniest damn thing I have read in a loooong time.

 

[MaxStout]

Leo Lambic?
Funky Felis Flanders?

Aerolite's Alliterative Amber Ale?

Get Yer Dander Up

Silvestris Sour

Imperial Hairball

Hair Of The Cat

 

[stratslinger]

How about these:

Whiskers Whit

Feline Flanders

Litterbox Lager

 

[sweetcell]

More Than a Feline (or I'm Feline Fine, or I'm Not Feline It, etc.)

Flea Poop Sour

 

[MaxStout]

Alleycat Ale

Katzenjammer Kolsch

 

[SnakeRidge]

I'm in for the same reason. I must say this thread is the funniest damn thing I have read in a loooong time.

I like your avatar, it's like he's saying "Cat Beer? In my day we drank beer and ate cats and left it at that! No sir, I don't like it!"

 

[sudbuddy]

There are more disgusting animals. Chickens, raccoons, opossums, rats, and cockroaches leap immediately to mind.

You have animal sized cockroaches where you are from?! Yikes!

 

[ba-brewer]

Probably don't want to over do it with too much catty type hops or it might mask the flavors of the yeast.

Just telling people you made beer from a ball of cat hair might help keep them from nosing around too deep in the beer fridge. Could also use it as an indicator when to cut people off. Anyone answering yes to the question "You want to try a beer I made from cat hair?" probably has had too much to drink already.

 

[ong]

I'd try a glass! Fermentation is sort of an inherently grubby practice. And it's not like he's "dry furring" the beers or anything.

 

[yourmama]

Reading up on wasps / hornets and their role in wild yeast. It would be better to mine for yeast out of their guts instead of wrangling your cat dander