So wait-- that opaque white stuff was what the apple juice turned into? and you simply poured that into your batch to begin a fermentation for your beer? Could you simply continue to keep a culture growing and a constant "yeast farm" if you let it sit there indefinitely?
I was expecting you to dry it, but that works as well.
why anyone would want to take the hit or miss direction of using wild yeast is beyond me..99% of attempts at my local homebrew club ALL ended with smelly often non fermented junk!...all the hard work of using yeast has been done by large companies/technical labs for selected cultured yeasts capable of ANY style or strength of wine/ beer/mead...messing with wild yeasts is contrary to all the recommended Hygiene requirements it will only end in useless & thrown down the sink .YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
What I would do and am planning to do, is to make the yeast, have apple juice and a lot of apple peels. Since the peels contain the majority of the yeast, it will (hopefully) start to ferment, then I basically have an unlimited yeast farm. I can investigate to try to find the best (Highest ABV, fastest ferment, etc) strain of yeast and then I will just use that.
@koolfoolable That's a good option. Consider the source of your apples because the majority of apples in the grocery store have been washed thoroughly which would defeat the purpose. Also, if the apples are not local, you will end up with a non-local yeast. There is nothing wrong with that at all, it just was not my intention here.
Make a video of the process to let me know how it goes. I would like to see it.
i do what you do, everyone tells me I am crazy, but i make my own yeast trains by taking a sterilized needle, and then Propagating it.. and then repeat it. I used different sugars to get differnt flavours...
@HumanZoo22 How interesting. I don't have the equipment to perform at that level, but that is very cool. You should post a video about it. I know I would like to see it. When I made this video, it was the only one on youtube about harvesting wild yeast for home brewing. I don't know if it still is, but I know it is an area that really needs to be further explored.
update? i saw this and thought "ooooh, local harvested yeast + local ingredients. have to try." and to experement, you could set up jars at different locations to get defferent loacal yeasts. so many possiblilitys!
@AngstSoul I should provide an update. But I haven't used it yet. It's just sitting in my fridge. I will probably try to make a 1 gallon batch of a lambic or something with it.
And yes, there are lots of possibilities with this. I'm not sure how many strains of wild yeast there are and I am sure it will change if you were to harvest near water, or in a woods, or near a field.
Good timing on the message....I just sat down to check my e-mail. Congrats on getting a successful batch of yeast! I've always wanted to try this for beer yeast. I've done it with a flour/water pasty mixture to obtain a unique sourdough starter for baking sourdough bread, but never gave it a go for beer yeasts. Let me know how your lambic brew turns out. Cheers!
@tlgrimmy You might have noticed that one of my 1 gallon fermenters was your mead recipe. The only things I changed were that I peeled the orange because I wanted to have the peel for a Belgian strong pale ale I have brewing in the basement and I added a little yeast nutrient. I think I am going to go buy a few lbs of grain and make a 1 gallon batch of beer just to try this out. It needs to grow quite a bit though before I do that though.
So wait-- that opaque white stuff was what the apple juice turned into? and you simply poured that into your batch to begin a fermentation for your beer? Could you simply continue to keep a culture growing and a constant "yeast farm" if you let it sit there indefinitely?
I was expecting you to dry it, but that works as well.
kushluk33 1 day ago
why anyone would want to take the hit or miss direction of using wild yeast is beyond me..99% of attempts at my local homebrew club ALL ended with smelly often non fermented junk!...all the hard work of using yeast has been done by large companies/technical labs for selected cultured yeasts capable of ANY style or strength of wine/ beer/mead...messing with wild yeasts is contrary to all the recommended Hygiene requirements it will only end in useless & thrown down the sink .YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
MrCOLTSR2 1 month ago
Really Cool video. Thank you! I'm definitely going to do this in the Spring. Can't wait!
DopeDivinity 1 month ago
What I would do and am planning to do, is to make the yeast, have apple juice and a lot of apple peels. Since the peels contain the majority of the yeast, it will (hopefully) start to ferment, then I basically have an unlimited yeast farm. I can investigate to try to find the best (Highest ABV, fastest ferment, etc) strain of yeast and then I will just use that.
koolfoolable 2 months ago
@koolfoolable That's a good option. Consider the source of your apples because the majority of apples in the grocery store have been washed thoroughly which would defeat the purpose. Also, if the apples are not local, you will end up with a non-local yeast. There is nothing wrong with that at all, it just was not my intention here.
Make a video of the process to let me know how it goes. I would like to see it.
Mooseified 2 months ago
Love the spirit of this - how did it turn out?
brianpegan 2 months ago
@brianpegan The yeast are fine, just waiting in my fridge. I need to get some homemade grape juice or something to work with, I have just been lazy.
Mooseified 2 months ago
great experiment
lailarocks95 2 months ago
i do what you do, everyone tells me I am crazy, but i make my own yeast trains by taking a sterilized needle, and then Propagating it.. and then repeat it. I used different sugars to get differnt flavours...
HumanZoo22 3 months ago
@HumanZoo22 How interesting. I don't have the equipment to perform at that level, but that is very cool. You should post a video about it. I know I would like to see it. When I made this video, it was the only one on youtube about harvesting wild yeast for home brewing. I don't know if it still is, but I know it is an area that really needs to be further explored.
Mooseified 3 months ago
update? i saw this and thought "ooooh, local harvested yeast + local ingredients. have to try." and to experement, you could set up jars at different locations to get defferent loacal yeasts. so many possiblilitys!
AngstSoul 5 months ago
@AngstSoul I should provide an update. But I haven't used it yet. It's just sitting in my fridge. I will probably try to make a 1 gallon batch of a lambic or something with it.
And yes, there are lots of possibilities with this. I'm not sure how many strains of wild yeast there are and I am sure it will change if you were to harvest near water, or in a woods, or near a field.
Mooseified 5 months ago
Good timing on the message....I just sat down to check my e-mail. Congrats on getting a successful batch of yeast! I've always wanted to try this for beer yeast. I've done it with a flour/water pasty mixture to obtain a unique sourdough starter for baking sourdough bread, but never gave it a go for beer yeasts. Let me know how your lambic brew turns out. Cheers!
tlgrimmy 8 months ago
@tlgrimmy You might have noticed that one of my 1 gallon fermenters was your mead recipe. The only things I changed were that I peeled the orange because I wanted to have the peel for a Belgian strong pale ale I have brewing in the basement and I added a little yeast nutrient. I think I am going to go buy a few lbs of grain and make a 1 gallon batch of beer just to try this out. It needs to grow quite a bit though before I do that though.
Mooseified 8 months ago