Jonkl
Well-Known Member
I've noticed that, whenever I have some extra shredded cheese or the like sitting around in the fridge for a while, it ends up with a pleasantly funky sharp cheddar flavor. (It's not just cheddar, either; I've had it happen to colby-jack and Monterrey jack, too.)
That got me thinking - if I have wild bugs floating around that can do that to cheese, could I try a wild ferment with beer and get a similar character? Are the microbes interchangeable like that, or would the cheese bugs not like beer?
I was thinking that maybe I could get a cheese to produce that character, expose a sanitized utensil to it (knife, spoon, something like that) and drop it into some open wort to control who shows up to the party with the biggest numbers first.
Any thoughts?
That got me thinking - if I have wild bugs floating around that can do that to cheese, could I try a wild ferment with beer and get a similar character? Are the microbes interchangeable like that, or would the cheese bugs not like beer?
I was thinking that maybe I could get a cheese to produce that character, expose a sanitized utensil to it (knife, spoon, something like that) and drop it into some open wort to control who shows up to the party with the biggest numbers first.
Any thoughts?
