"Wild" beer

woodenboatguy · Joined: 19 Sep 2012 Posts: 96 Location: Mississauga, ON

An interesting article in the Toronto Star on getting your yeast into the wort 15th century style

http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/1272557--ontario-brewers-come-together-to-make-on-wild-beer-what-s-brewing

Regards,

Crazy Brewer · Joined: 12 Feb 2014 Posts: 60 Location: Houston area, Texas

Interesting subject. Thanks for the link.

Tony

foomench · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:51 pm Post subject:

They picked a good spot to go to capture wild yeast. I put out a malt-agar petri dish in my basement and got nothing.

The historical characterization I don't think quite gives the ancient brewers the credit they deserve. While they didn't know yeast as a microorganism, they did have some concept of putting new brewing vessels next to older functioning ones to transfer the magic.