Hi all!
I found a bottle of Tripel Karmeliet in a local shop and decided to try stealing the yeasties from the bottle sediment.
I brewed a 200ml starter with 20 gr of DME and pitched the sediment into it.
24 hours later the starter appears to have fermented, however, instead of the usual smell of yeasty beer, it smells VERY strongly of green apples! Pure green apples and nothing else.
I practice good sanitation and have not had any contamination issues so far.
So, has anyone harvested Tripel Karmeliet yeast? If you have, did it smell of green apples?
I've stepped up the starter tonight and I'm quite interested to taste the result but I've got a feeling that I failed to collect the yeast =(
I found a bottle of Tripel Karmeliet in a local shop and decided to try stealing the yeasties from the bottle sediment.
I brewed a 200ml starter with 20 gr of DME and pitched the sediment into it.
24 hours later the starter appears to have fermented, however, instead of the usual smell of yeasty beer, it smells VERY strongly of green apples! Pure green apples and nothing else.
I practice good sanitation and have not had any contamination issues so far.
So, has anyone harvested Tripel Karmeliet yeast? If you have, did it smell of green apples?
I've stepped up the starter tonight and I'm quite interested to taste the result but I've got a feeling that I failed to collect the yeast =(