How would you get yeast in the wild?

[wrelsien]

Okay so since yeast have been consuming sugars and making the marvelously intoxicating liquid we all love so much I assume there must be a way to harvest yeast with out some sort of lab.

Does any one know how one could acquire yeast if they were stranded on an island or in some post-apocalyptic society?

 

[Mongrel]

Does any one know how one could acquire yeast if they were stranded on an island or in some post-apocalyptic society?

Acquiring the right fermentables would be much tougher under these conditions.

 

[KeithMoonsLiver]

I just stock my fallout shelter with a lifetime worth of dry yeast.

 

[ChshreCat]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f127/howto-capture-wild-yeast-101886/

 

[dwarven_stout]

See this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/can-i-culture-yeast-juniper-berries-169156/

 

[dwarven_stout]

Acquiring the right fermentables would be much tougher under these conditions.

Hobos ferment quite nicely.

 

[Mongrel]

Hobos ferment quite nicely.

I guess my process still needs a little work before I try out my glowing lambic post-apocalyptic feral cat recipe.