{"id":2670,"date":"2021-10-22T18:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:36:45","slug":"wild-yeast-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/wild-yeast-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Groom of the Stool &#8211; A Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Content warning: contains bad puns, even worse \"humor\", and a light sprinkling of mild profanity<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>As my regular readers know, I like to brew things using wild yeast found in odd places. Whether its the <a href=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/12\/wild-mead\/\">guts of bees<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/17\/coolship-homebrew\/\">pulled from the air<\/a>, or from <a href=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/12\/2014-wild-yeast-hunt\/\">random objects<\/a>, I tend to find yeast in unusual places. I&#8217;ve also been known to enjoy the odd pun, a touch of sarcasm, and occasionally allowing myself the mental maturity of a three year old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So imagine my joy when I conceptualized a new brewing adventure. One that would harvest yeast from a very unusual place, make people squirm, was completely childish, and would make a beer with one hell of a backstory. And imagine my sorrow when it failed miserably. And failed in a way which 10 minutes of reading could have avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So join me in my quest to brew a beer from shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Backstory<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2674\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/wild-yeast-mistake\/cocoon-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cocoon-1.gif?fit=350%2C196&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"350,196\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cocoon-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cocoon-1.gif?fit=350%2C196&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cocoon-1.gif?resize=350%2C196&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"gif of a caterpillar going into a crysalis\" class=\"wp-image-2674\" width=\"350\" height=\"196\"\/><figcaption>Henry the 8th going into a chrysalis. Boudica watches.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a young son in whom I am trying to foster a love of science and nature. Which means that we usually have a few home experiments running at any particular time. One of this summer&#8217;s projects was raising Monarch Butterflies. Watching the pinhead-sized caterpillars grow to 5 cm worms, turn into a chrysalis, and hatch into butterflies, was something I&#8217;ve wanted to do my whole life. If anything, my son was even more excited and would spend hours watching the caterpillars do their thing in their little terrariums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I knew they would grow quickly, I didn&#8217;t appreciate that this quick growth would be accompanied by the prodigious production of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frass\">frass<\/a>. Seriously &#8211; a monarch caterpillar easily generates it&#8217;s own weight in crap every 12 hours. We constantly had to clean out the bottom of our terrariums to keep things presentable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2675\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/wild-yeast-mistake\/frass\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Frass.jpg?fit=590%2C866&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"590,866\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Frass\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Frass.jpg?fit=590%2C866&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Frass.jpg?fit=800%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"wild yeast free frass in a terrarium\" class=\"wp-image-2675\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Frass.jpg?resize=204%2C300&amp;ssl=1 204w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Frass.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><figcaption>A large pile of crap&#8230;and the caterpillar that made it<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One evening, a few beers into the night, I found myself cleaning caterpillar dookie for what had to be the ten-thousandth time. To help pass the time I was watching a documentary that happened to be on the Tudors. And their court. With a focus on some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzdlg1rF4Wo\">worst jobs in history<\/a>, this documentary informed me of a job I did not know existed. Apparently, an important position in the medieval English Court is the <em>Groom of the Stool<\/em> &#8211; a trusted confidant of the king. . .<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groom_of_the_Stool#Origins\">who wipes the kings ass<\/a> (and I&#8217;m not talking about the kings donkey). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is something I learned, not unironically, as I too was wiping my Monarch&#8217;s proverbial buttocks. The alcohol and the irony were more than my poor brain could handle, and in lieu of a stroke, my brain instead made the best (or worst) connection possible.  Insects have intestinal tracts full of wild yeasts, the <em>Monarch Butterfly<\/em> is the royalty of the insect kingdom, and I &#8211; a hunter of wild yeasts &#8211; found myself grooming the butterflies stool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we had wild yeast, more puns than I can shake a stick at, and a yeast source not for those of a delicate disposition. How could I resist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where Be&#8217;ith The Wild Yeast?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2677\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/wild-yeast-mistake\/nero1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?fit=1084%2C756&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1084,756\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nero1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?fit=800%2C558&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?resize=256%2C179&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2677\" width=\"256\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?resize=1024%2C714&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?resize=768%2C536&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?resize=392%2C272&amp;ssl=1 392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?resize=130%2C90&amp;ssl=1 130w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero1.jpg?w=1084&amp;ssl=1 1084w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption>Nero, out for a walk.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The next step was obvious. I prepared a wort from dry malt extract. 1.040 specific gravity, <a href=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/05\/fact-of-fiction-can-pathogens-survive-in-beer-the-rdwhahb-edition\/\">pre-acidified to a pH of 4.2 to help suppress pathogens<\/a>. I set up a dozen test tubes, 5 ml of wort in each, and into each added the turds from each of our caterpillars. Caterpillars we had dutifully named after some of the worst Monarchs in history. I had high hopes for Nero&#8217;s fecal donation, while my wife was rooting for George the third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 days later&#8230;no fermentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 days later&#8230;no fermentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 days later we released the butterflies&#8230;but still no fermentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspections under the microscope found a few desultory bacteria, but not much else. So we gathered up a dozen more caterpillars and attempted round 2. Same setup as last time, and the same result &#8211; nary a yeast cell to be found. Even pooling the 24 samples in a lower-gravity and non-acidfied wort led to nothing but a bit of mould.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 caterpillars &#8211; each named after one dubious royal, mountains of butterfly dung, two months of work, and no yeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where are the Wild Yeast?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2676\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/wild-yeast-mistake\/nero2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero2.jpg?fit=1600%2C757&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,757\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nero2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero2.jpg?fit=800%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero2.jpg?resize=768%2C363&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2676\" width=\"768\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero2.jpg?resize=1024%2C484&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero2.jpg?resize=300%2C142&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero2.jpg?resize=768%2C363&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero2.jpg?resize=1536%2C727&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Nero2.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Nero, whom while pretty, is a pretty shitty source of yeast.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To figure out what went wrong, I did what any competent microbiologist would have done <em>before<\/em> starting the experiment. I read the scientific literature. Not that there is scientific literature on the use of caterpillar dung to produce beer. But there is scientific literature on the caterpillar microbiome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out, a microbiome is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/114\/36\/9641\">thing that they don&#8217;t really have<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That prodigious growth rate that caterpillars experience comes along with an enormous appetite. Which the caterpillar satiates by eating several times its volume in plant material a day. Which means that material moves so quickly through a caterpillars gut that there isn&#8217;t an opportunity for yeast &#8211; or anything else &#8211; to grab hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yep, caterpillars are literally turd cannons that fire dookie through their gastric track so quickly that they wipe themselves clean. Neither toilet paper, nor grooms of the stool, are required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Moral of this Story<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Does this story have a moral? I&#8217;m not so sure it does. I did learn that I know far fewer synonyms for fecal matter than I thought I knew. I also learned that microbiomes are, perhaps, not as universal as I had thought. And maybe &#8211; just maybe &#8211; that formulating scientific (or, at least, science-adjacent) experiments while several beers into the evening is not the best of ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, as I always tell my students, &#8220;research your experiment first&#8221;. Looks like I should take my own advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join me for a wild yeast adventure. Complete with bad puns, mild profanity, and a total absence of success. 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