Posts tagged mixed fermentation
I Tried It: Wild Brews by Jeff Sparrow
I Tried It: Wild Brews by Jeff Sparrow

It will likely surprise no one that I routinely won the "Most Book Reports" award when I was in elementary school. I regularly cashed in my Book-Its points for personal pan pizzas at Pizza Hut, wearing my giant purple Book-It pin as I chowed down on my pizza.

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Jen BlairWild Brews, Jeff Sparrow, Brettanomyces, Brett, corks, Under the Jenfluence, Book It, book reports, Advanced Cicerone, Cicerone, CIcerone Certification Program, mixed fermentation, wild fermentation, Wild Brews: Beer Beyond the Influence of Brewer's Yeast, Culture and Craftsmanship in the Belgian Tradition, Belgian wild aleComment
I Tried It: 100% Brett-Fermented Homebrew - Part 1
I Tried It: 100% Brett-Fermented Homebrew - Part 1

I imagine that the trajectory homebrew has taken in my household is akin to parents with babies - at first, everything has to be clean and sanitized nearly to the point of being sterile to protect your offspring/homebrew; after awhile, though, you realize that your baby will live even if it eats Cheerios off the couch cushions and that your beer will still be drinkable even if you forgot to sanitize the scissors you used to cut open your yeast packet.

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Jen BlairBrettanomyces, Brett, funky beer, Wild Brews, Jeff Sparrow, American Sour Beers, Michael Tonsmeire, Under the Jenfluence, krausen, yeast starter, junior scientists, mixed fermentation, raised by wolvesComment