Hey guys.
So cool enough and luckily for me, I am able to do my senior seminar/thesis sort of thing on Victorian Era brewing practices. I've done some digging and discovered a lot of stuff about it, but the one question I haven't been able to figure out the answer to is this; what did they use for yeast? Did the people in the late 1800's just do their mash and hope that it would ferment from wild yeasties floating in the air?
Any help on this would be awesome, I have to give a quick preliminary presentation on this in a few days and would like to have this question answered before I present!
thanks muchos.
Dave
So cool enough and luckily for me, I am able to do my senior seminar/thesis sort of thing on Victorian Era brewing practices. I've done some digging and discovered a lot of stuff about it, but the one question I haven't been able to figure out the answer to is this; what did they use for yeast? Did the people in the late 1800's just do their mash and hope that it would ferment from wild yeasties floating in the air?
Any help on this would be awesome, I have to give a quick preliminary presentation on this in a few days and would like to have this question answered before I present!
thanks muchos.
Dave