Wild Brettanomyces Project – 2024 Update
My longtime readers will know about my Wild Brettanomyces Project – my multi-year quest to try and identify the environmental
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Adventures in Yeast Wrangling
Posts on yeast-wrangling expeditions and tests of wild and engineered yeasts.
Wild Brettanomyces – The 2023 Search
An update on my work over the summer of 2023 to isolate and characterize wild Brettanomyces from the rhizosphere.
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Wild Brettanomyces – Fermentation Tests
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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Wild Brettanomyces – a Needle in a Haystack
I successfully isolated some wild Brettanomyces, but the experiment wasn’t quite as successful as I had hoped.
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These ARE The Yeast You Are Looking For
Not all experiments work…but some do! And that includes my second attempt to capture some wild Brettanomyces.
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These Are Not The Yeast Your Are Looking For
Not all experiments work, and that includes my first attempt to capture some wild Brettanomyces.
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Drying Kveik – The Grand Finale
Six months ago I embarked on an experiment to assess how well drying kveik (Norwegian landrace yeasts) works as a
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Drying Kveik – 5 Months
Wow, summer is flying by – its already time for the 5 month follow-up on my drying kveik experiment! For
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Drying Kveik – 965 Days!
I have an unexpected update on my dried kveik experiment. My foray into Kveik brewing began back in 2016, and
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Drying Kveik – 4 Months
I am now four months into my drying kveik experiment. Four months ago I dried some Voss Kveik, and have
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