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plaplant

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So I've currently got a jar that contains dreggs from 4 heady topper cans, 1 jolly pumpkin Oro De Calabaza, and a Sierra Nevada Snow Wit White IPA. I've stepped it up a 2 times and Will pitch it into a standard starter before I brew with it, but the question is, should I brew with it?! This is the first time I've experimented with mixing yeasts and I have no idea if brett, connan, and a wit yeast would go together well at all. I think they could, but I'd love to hear from someone with more experience. The one note that I have take is that this mixture is extremely aggressive. It took not time to take off and finished out in the lastest starter within 24 hours.

Any advice would be really helpful.

Thanks,
 
I would just pick what style beer you try to brew with it based on the mixture. You have an interesting mixture with some clean fermenting and yeast character forward types in there. I might throw it on a saison recipe and add some late hop additions and see what I got.

You could taste the starter to get an idea of what your beer will be like.

I've done this a few times, I like to mix yeast from a general category though. I made a killer stout from 3 different yeasts I got from porters and stouts and I've made a good saison as well.
 
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