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All posts on brewing sour and wild beers

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Solera Series Part 3 – Finishing Beer From Your Solera

March 17, 2024March 17, 2024 Bryan 0 Comments long-aged beers, solera, sour beer, vintage beers, wild yeast

This is the third video – and final planned video – in a short series on managing a beer solera in your home brewery. In this video we discuss how you finish the beer that comes out of your solera, to produce the best beer possible.

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Classical Sours Solera Brewing Sour & Wild 

Solera Series Part 2 – Managing Your Solera

March 16, 2024March 16, 2024 Bryan 2 Comments long-aged beers, solera, sour beer, vintage beers, wild yeast

In my second video on managing a beer solera in your home brewery we discuss how you plan for, brew, and manage each withdrawal/refill cycle of a solera, focusing on how we can adjust our recipe to push the character of the beer in the direction we want it to go.

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Classical Sours Solera Brewing Sour & Wild 

Solera Series Part 1 – Starting a Solera

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 Bryan 0 Comments long-aged beers, solera, sour beer, vintage beers, wild yeast

This is the first video in a short series on managing a beer solera in your home brewery. In this video we discuss what a solera is, how you operate a solera, and go over a series of important factors you need to consider before starting a new solera.

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Brewing Science Fact or Fiction? Sour & Wild Wild Brewing Zymurgy 

Fact or Fiction: Beer and Moulds – More There Than You Think

October 20, 2023December 13, 2023 Bryan 0 Comments fact or fiction, mold, mould, moulds, sour beer, wild yeast

Are moulds present in beer? Are they a risk? And how do we manage them?

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Adventures in Yeast Wrangling Sour & Wild Wild Brewing Yeast Wrangling 

Wild Brettanomyces – Fermentation Tests

March 24, 2023March 21, 2025 Bryan 4 Comments brettanomyces, brewing science, hunting wild yeasts, wild yeast

The final post in the 2022/2023 hunt for wild Brettanomyces. Here, I look at the fermentation characteristics of the two species of Brettanomyces I successfully isolated this fall.

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Part of a wild brettanomyces ITS sequence
Adventures in Yeast Wrangling Brewing Science Collecting Wild Yeasts Sour & Wild Yeast Wrangling 

Wild Brettanomyces – a Needle in a Haystack

November 6, 2022March 21, 2025 Bryan 0 Comments brettanomyces, brewing science, huntin, hunting wild yeasts, wild yeast

I successfully isolated some wild Brettanomyces, but the experiment wasn’t quite as successful as I had hoped.

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Adventures in Yeast Wrangling Brewing Science Collecting Wild Yeasts Sour & Wild Yeast Wrangling 

These ARE The Yeast You Are Looking For

November 2, 2022March 21, 2025 Bryan 2 Comments brettanomyces, brewing science, hunting wild yeasts, wild yeast

Not all experiments work…but some do! And that includes my second attempt to capture some wild Brettanomyces.

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Homebrewing Rapid Sours Recipes Sour & Wild 

Thiolize This! (Fruited Sour)

September 4, 2022September 4, 2022 Bryan 0 Comments quick sours, recipe, tasting notes, thiols

Recipe and tasting notes for Thiolize This! – a peach & mango sour beer fermented with a thiolizing yeast. Did it work? Click to find out!

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Classical Sours Homebrewing Recipes Sour & Wild 

Mad Days Mixed-Fermentation Saison

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 Bryan 2 Comments brettanomyces, lactobacillus, mixed-fermentation, saison, sour beer

My first test of the Mad Fermentationists Saison Blend. How did it perform in a mixed-fermentation saison? Tune in to find out!

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Sour & Wild Wild Brewing 

Groom of the Stool – A Cautionary Tale

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Bryan 2 Comments experiment, fail, hunting wild yeasts, wild yeast

Join me for a wild yeast adventure. Complete with bad puns, mild profanity, and a total absence of success. Home brewed science at its best!

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