Fear the Walking Dead - Jimbo's Beerbos

[TwistedGray]

If Jim was making beer 2+ years in to the apocalypse he was probably maintaining live cultures some where. As for where the survivors are going to find these things, that's going to be harder. But couldn't they just go back to Jim's brewery. They didn't go that far. But I guess that's a plot for next season.

SPOILER ALERT


I think you missed the part where his "yeast cake" when up in smoke when the truck was shot up (blew up? I forget). What's a little confusing is where Morgan got the beer from at the end of the episode though if not from that truck. I don't recall the 18-wheeler being in a drivable condition.

Anywhoot, I think whatever Jimbo had left over is gone now, no?

 

[Br3w4u]

As far as chilling beer; just find a source of running, cool water. If you're brewing tens of gallons it'll be slower; however, in this world it's probably a moot point.

In addition, that gas station had electricity and running water, right? You could easily make ice there for an ice bath. Solar panels are everywhere nowadays, so you could easily fill an 18-wheeler full of panels from these solar farms and/or set up shop there. They're in the desert so you'll have good sight lines as well. You could build a double or trip moat with the first two set up as zombie collectors and the third being your water source. Set-up near an aqueduct, if you want.

Soooooooo many options

Actually the gas station thing brings up another error in the writing. If they are supposed to be on the same timeline as the original walking dead then why does Texas have power and running water when Georgia didn’t have either? If nobody is operating the power plant or the water treatment plant then you have nothing.

 

[Br3w4u]

Wild yeast, no? You could probably harvest some yeast off fruit skin, too, I would think.

Well to make jimbo’s beer “true to style” you would have to use Belgian and French saison yeast like he says but the new post apocalyptic jimbo’s beerbo’s would probably be more like a farmhouse saison because you would have to use wild yeast.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Not having seen the show, but presumably he might be able to harvest yeast from a bottle of beer, or have kept some from a previous batch that he had dried kveik-style? That's the way they've done it in Norway for hundreds of years - brewing still continues even once White Labs and Wyeast have been consumed by zombies.

For electricity - solar and wind power need less active maintenance than something fossil-fuel-powered, or presumably Texas could run generators given local oil, which Georgia doesn't have?

 

[TwistedGray]

Actually the gas station thing brings up another error in the writing. If they are supposed to be on the same timeline as the original walking dead then why does Texas have power and running water when Georgia didn’t have either? If nobody is operating the power plant or the water treatment plant then you have nothing.

They answer this in a previous episode. I forget specifics, but I think it's solar powered and perhaps that hydroelectric plant contributes to "the grid"? Just speculating a bit here; however, I know they answer the gas station question because one of the people on the show asks How the gas station is operational. I think Morgan asks wheel chair dude and trucker chick.

 

[TwistedGray]

Well to make jimbo’s beer “true to style” you would have to use Belgian and French saison yeast like he says but the new post apocalyptic jimbo’s beerbo’s would probably be more like a farmhouse saison because you would have to use wild yeast.

Correct.

 

[specharka]

Well to make jimbo’s beer “true to style” you would have to use Belgian and French saison yeast like he says but the new post apocalyptic jimbo’s beerbo’s would probably be more like a farmhouse saison because you would have to use wild yeast.

People have been preserving and repitching yeast strains (perhaps unwittingly at times) for centuries prior to its discovery and refrigeration. They’re still considered domesticated yeast strains, just not isolated ones.

Wild yeast is a completely different species.

 

[Dimax]

https://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/2124138/undead-saison

Batch Size: 5.00 gal. Style: Saison (25B)
Boil Size: 6.22 gal. Style Guide: BJCP 2015
Color: 3.7 SRM. Equipment: Grainfather
Bitterness: 26.2 IBUs. Boil Time: 60 min
Est OG: 1.056 (13.8° P). Mash Profile: Belgian Step Mash
Est FG: 1.008 SG (2.0° P) Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage
ABV: 6.4%. Taste Rating: 30.0

Ingredients
7.00 gal Yellow Dry (Under 6 SRM)
6 lbs 12.80 oz Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM)
1 lbs 8.00 oz Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM)
1 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM)
11.20 oz Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM)
0.50 oz Magnum [13.0%] - Boil 60 min
2.30 oz Saaz [4.4%] - Boil 10 min
1.30 oz Styrian Goldings [1.3%] - Boil 5 min
0.75 pkgs Belgian Saison (Wyeast Labs #3724)
0.25 pkgs French Saison (Wyeast Labs #3711)

Steal at will.

EDIT: Changed a few of the grain & hop weights to reflect the posted recipe a little more accurately.

7.00 gal Yellow Dry (Under 6 SRM) ?

 

[pwortiz]

7.00 gal Yellow Dry (Under 6 SRM) ?

Mash water/sparge total(?) coloration and spectrum of sweetness? I am only just now watching the entire series and noted all this down. I have a saison going now that I wonder if I can use that yeast cake Belle Saison so at least I have half ready to go

 

[QueenKate]

Actually the gas station thing brings up another error in the writing. If they are supposed to be on the same timeline as the original walking dead then why does Texas have power and running water when Georgia didn’t have either? If nobody is operating the power plant or the water treatment plant then you have nothing.

I don’t remember who said it but in another episode someone stated that Texas has its own power supply from the rest of the country. And being something of a history buff if Texas ever wanted to separate from the union it can because of the way the state charter was written.