Compost bucket sour?

[mashpaddled]

This just came to me this morning - I think name for this has to be "beerkashi" (after bokashi composting)

... and then saw that you're still posting updates. This is amazing

Surviving drinking this beer is a real superpower.

All jokes aside, the process of creating alcohol and acid is going to murder most of the dangerous microorganisms that exist in a compost bin but whether they create toxic or GI tract disruptive compounds before that happens is kind of a different story. The real surprise is that the beer doesn't taste absolutely awful.

 

[mashdar]

The less sour batch is actually kind of nice, and has been aging fine in bottles. It's a tart saison, not very remarkable.

The more sour batch has a little more funk to it, but not a ton. It's on the drinkable side of too-sour.

There's also 1.5gal each sitting in kegs. In theory it should be tracking the bottles, but we'll see in 6mo.

I haven't been treating the cultures well. It'd take a few ~5-day propagations to get it on a useable state again, I think.