Hop Tolerant Lactobacillus?

[TipsySaint]

Anyone know what strains of Lacto are most hop resistant? Looking at doing a beer with about 20IBU.....Short aging (3 months) would like some lacto character.....don't want the hops to kill it all....

 

[hirschb]

The new Wyeast lacto is reputedly hop tolerant. If you can find some Jester King Noble King, those dregs should work.

 

[TipsySaint]

so you happen to know the strain name?

 

[Thorpe429]

The new Wyeast is Lacto Brevis.


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[inflictor-of-grimness]

White Labs also has a lactobacillus Brevis strain now. I got some that I plan on building up and using for several beers.

 

[gometz]

Any word on what the actual IBU limit is for the Brevis?

I used 3203 (which I believe contains Lacto Brevis) for my first sour, but may have overdone it with the hops (IBU's should only be 16, but with late additions).

I also have another packet of brevis that I am hoping to use to sour a saison and a porter in secondary in the near future.

 

[gometz]

Double post

 

[TipsySaint]

You can do a few tests for it to see if it's still present and active, bring some or all of your wort to 100F for a couple of days and you should notice a steep increase in the sourness of your beer, and i don't mean funk, i mean warhead sour....