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Spontaneous Fermentation
VIA: Lindemans website.
I was looking up wild yeast, this was what I found.
Lindemans was why I was looking up wild yeast.
http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/5_br … emans.html
So now I curious, can you leave anything set out and it will gather yeast?
Tea will go bad, you can ferment tea just by leaving it out and letting it, go bad? yuck.
The lindemans site is interesting though.
Marv.
Could you leave a wort out, to see if it could ferment
on it's own, (wild yeast) and then harvest it?
Use it a couple times and set another batch out in the same place
to collect more?
Not saying I'm going to, an interesting thought, (to me anyway) but could you
harvest your own yeast strain that way?
Get a couple starters going and is stick them in the fridge
to deactivate them till you wanted to use them?
I know I'm way out of my league here, I'm just curious .
Doesn't look like it can be cloned.Never get that strain of yeast, which is wild.
Marv.
Sounds like a fun experiment. I'm sure whatever yeast you found would not be the kind of yeast that would impart desired flavors and characteristics to your beer.
There are several breweries that drive the initial part of fermentation by whatever falls in. I wouldn't try to harvest a wild yeast for future fermentations, they tend to be unpredictable, and while they will metabolize anything with available sugars you might not want to drink the final product.
I would tend to agree, wild yeast can have unexpected results. I know of a lot of people that use them for ciders, but not too many homebrewers use wild yeast for beer. Seems like a pretty big risk with not a lot to gain.
Definitely not much to gain, if you're into crazy brews you might give it a shot, but you're risking wasting a whole batch.
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