EBY/BBA Brettanomyces Experiment

[brewguyver]

I didn't notice any of that. I finally pitched all of mine last night and the only weirdness was that I got no activity from 001 and some mold on 038. I thought the slime/sickness was from pedio, didn't know brett produced that.

EDIT: Just read the the thread and realized you were generalizing and not talking specifically about this project, sorry.

Actually, I think that thread is related - he pitched all 20 strains into a 50 gallon batch. Then again my brain sometimes thinks its 66 instead of 33, so I could be mistaken.

Speaking of, I bottled all 20 strains last weekend. I got 5-6 bottles per batch -17 bottled without sugar and will be tested at a buddies house this Saturday (taste, gravity, etc.). The rest are ready and waiting for the test cycles.

For those of you who noticed the math error, that leaves 3. Like a genius, I put sugar in those PRIOR to trying hydro or tasting. Dumb.

I'll see if we can use his scope rig on the sample dregs as well, but that may have to wait until next time.

For those of you who haven't gotten to bottling yet, plan for a few hours. It takes a while to sanitize everything, fill bottle set, capture the slurry (if you're doing that) close everything up, and move to the next one. This is especially true if you did 20.

I used a mini auto siphon, a gallon jug of fresh sanitizer, and copper tun carb drops.

 

[ChugachBrewing]

Correct. This is about THESE yeasts, they were all pitched into my barrel (and even some of them when pitching to the original batches were somewhat slimy)

I wonder though if any of the samples (since some were dregs from commercially produced sours) had pedio in them? Just a thought, since mine occurred before pitching to barrel.

I'll probably bottle in the spring.

 

[brewguyver]

Just put my "at bottling" results in to the EBY google form on Saturday. Was very interesting, but it took a long time to do. I definitely recommend doing it with friends if you have a large number of samples.

Also recommend not taking the capping month 1 sample approach that I described unless you're going to do sampling within 24-48 hours. My results indicate some of these are slow fermenters, and they didn't attenuate as well as others. Clearly they're still going though, because those are the bottles that carbonated.

Flattening a sample is a pain.

 

[Roy2Ventullo]

Some images from BBA/EBY Brett Experiment: 1/2 gallon fermenters, tasting and bottling the 20 Bretts. Followed recipe as statedper experiment. Did tasting with 4 friends but my bad, have not yet posted results (darn day job). We are 5 weeks post bottling and think of doing round 2 soon.

Microdoc

 

[Brewbien]

Bottling today.

 

[ocluke]

Some images from BBA/EBY Brett Experiment: 1/2 gallon fermenters, tasting and bottling the 20 Bretts. Followed recipe as statedper experiment. Did tasting with 4 friends but my bad, have not yet posted results (darn day job). We are 5 weeks post bottling and think of doing round 2 soon.

Microdoc

Thanks for sharing. Looks like your 11 still had a lot of suspended yeast, while 10 had mostly settled out.