strawberry yeast

[ArchieBl3h]

Wild yeast is used when brewing lambics and krieks. One must remember that all yeast was wild at one time in prehistory. One could start with this wild yeast, and over time, with whatever science and experimentation necessary, produce something as high quality as White Labs.

[Marinedude2]

would you rather eat or drink something that is manmade or natural? For ex. manmade sugar or natural sugar?

[solkacorot]

well then if yeast naturally is produced then after the yeast occurs can't you just add more strawberrys and suger and make a strawberry wine?

[anthonydykes02]

HEY!! I HAVE THAT SAME SPOON!!!

[OriginalJosh01]

Nice. Cant wait to try using straw berry's to make yeast. As long as no bacteria ruins it. Can you wash them first? (I know with peeled apple skin, you cant)

[drewd1987]

boil fruit with some water and sugar. This will kill anything on the berries. It also dissolves the extrea sugar that the yeast will need. Let it cool. Then put your yeast in.

[rejwow]

only strawberry, older ones. Wash some fresh strawberries with clean water, put them in a jar with pure water and the result will be ; natural fermentation and you can use this liquid to ferment anything you want, like apple cider or hydromel. ( honey wine)

[EffAreOhhGee]

Okay, obviously there's strawberries in there, but what else? Water, some sort of yeast (baker's, brewer's, etc.) , and sugar, or is the sugar in the fruit enough for fermentation?

[BlackBunny15]

Eeek, its bubbling! Hehe That's actually pretty cool looking~!

[jlebrech]

He is extracting the yeast from the skin. I you mash the skin with the skin together the sugar in the fruit will ferment.

Like grapes. But he just wants the yeast.

[EffAreOhhGee]

Wait; what?! O_o Can you use the extracted yeast to make bread and beer and stuff?!

[zugarjeel]

yes its not that difficult

[peacelovehippychick]

@zugarjeel how do you do it?

[boxa888]

@EffAreOhhGee no the yeast is naturally on the fruit, but this process brings it to a useable amount for bread and other products, look up "how to make natural yeast" this is the first process family farms did before big business made us all zombies and helpless in preparing our own food from nature. gotta try this!!

[valstar1000]

@boxa888 I completely agree with you but it's not only the big businesses but also laws and school, if I were to buy land the state officials would try to keep me from building my own house and raising pigs they always want a "licensed" person to be paid to do stuff for you and not everyone wants or can afford to go to collage and considering there are PHD's in playground science makes collage seem stupid and that you better off studying at home.

[valstar1000]

@valstar1000 sorry I misspelled a few words.

[Adol666]

@boxa888 LOL the big badddd businesses. I will take my specialized "Big Buisness" wine yeast over some random wild strain any day. If wild yeast was sooo great at fermenting alcohol winerys would use it. Fact is wild yeast is unpredictable and produces very low amounts of alcohol.

[boxa888]

@Adol666 ur just a sheep, not worth arguing with lazy people. maaaahhhh. hope u prepared!!

[Adol666]

@boxa888 Its Obvious you know nothing about the different strains of yeast and that some yeast like Zygosaccharomyces and Brettanomyces Produce Alcohol but also produce an array of metabolites when growing in wine, some of which are volatile phenolic compounds making the wine taste or smell nasty. Go on any home wine making forum and tell them how you use random wild yeast to make alcohol and you will be laughed at like the moron you are.

[HubSwitch]

@Adol666

Morons are people who know things but dont use that info to better them selves, or others.

I don't know about what you have said here about using wild yeast for wine making, I was actually wanting to try this myself. I would hope that others who also "know" about wild yeast could be more constructive and helpful rather than demean and ridicule those wishing to better their "know how" it takes time to learn stuff properly, even longer, or not at all when made to look like a fool.

[Adol666]

@HubSwitch "ur just a sheep, not worth arguing with lazy people" As you can read he insulted me first. Also most wild yeast produce next to no alcohol and die out at around 3% if at all. Thing is thier is nothing wrong with ripping open a packet of Red Star Premier Cuvee wine yeast and using that. "Big Buissness" wine yeast arnt some Geneticly Modified yeast. They are just selected strains humans have been engineering naturally for 1000s of years Besides its only 60 cent a pack

[Adol666]

@HubSwitch Also remeber certain yeast will not make certain styles of wine. For intance Sheery needs to be made with Flo Sheery yeast. Also while a certain yeast like Pasture Red is for red wines, it shouldnt be used for making whites. You could but the results wouldnt be as good. Basicly when making wine we are looking for a consistant quality Product. Wild yeast do no supply that

[HubSwitch]

@Adol666 Brettanomyces bruxellensis plays a key role in the spontaneous fermentation of typical Belgian beer styles such as Lambic, Flanders red ales, Gueuze, and Kriek. It competes with brewer's yeast, as well as other microorganisms, in fermenting the wort, and gives the beer a distinctive taste, which is a desired part of the style.In the wine industry, Brettanomyces bruxellensis is generally considered a spoilage yeast and is often referred to as brett. Its metabolic products

[HubSwitch]

@Adol666

can impart "sweaty saddle leather"barnyard"burnt plastic" or "band-aid" aromas to wine. Some winemakers in France and occasionally elsewhere consider it a desirable addition to wine e.g in Château de Beaucastel but New World vintners generally consider it a defect..

Hmmm, quite interesting! and I am sure if you would have asked him to search on the yeasts you mentioned he too would be a little wiser?

I am sure you are too..

Happy brewing :o)

[Adol666]

@HubSwitch Yes those yeast are used to a VERY small degree. I think even i Europe they are considered by the majority to just be a spoliage yeast

[limegre3n18]

wtf; i dont get it,

[MartinsBrew]

U making a wine?

[iam980]

what is this, how to make it!