Identifying Wild Yeast Part Deux
From XKCD.com So my first go at identifying wild yeast using ITS sequencing did not work as well as I
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Old School Identification of Wild Yeasts & Bacteria
As part of the wild yeast project, I need to be able to identify the yeasts that we are purifying.
Read moreIntroduction to Hunting Wild Yeasts
My interest in brewing has been life-long; I remember helping my grandfather to make schnapps and applejack when I was a little kid. As
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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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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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Spherical Cows & Yeast Starters
A dive into some new misconceptions on yeast starters which were spread by a well known and popular podcast.
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The Fifty Meter Beer Project Part 12 – Yeast Tests!
Somehow, its been a month since my last update…or work on the Fifty Meter Beer Project. So its time to start testing some of the wild yeast I’ve collected!
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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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