Brewday Sunday!
I’ve got this Sunday set aside for brewing, but I still need to keg the beer from the Brueday we did the last weekend in March. I think Sunday’s going to be pretty busy with kegging 15G and brewing another 10, but it’ll be well worth it. I’m still not brewing my 2009 RIS yet, instead I’ll be brewing a Saison. There are two reasons, I don’t have the grain for the RIS and I’ve got a lot of German Pils malt sitting around. I also decided a few weeks ago to try propagating some yeast from bottles of commercial beer. I tried 3 different brews: Fantome Noel, Ommegang Biere de Mars, and a bottle of Russian River’s Consecration that I lucked out and found at Whole Foods. I was able to get viable critters from two of the bottles, and here are some pics of my babies:
The top picture is the one I’m most excited about. It’s cultured up from whatever happened to be in my bottle of Consecration. All I know about it is that the beer made in the first step-up had the distinct tastes of brettanomyces bruxellensis, but I don’t know if it’s a pure culture or if there is some saccaromyces, lactobacillus, pediococcus, etc in there with it.
The bottom picture is the yeast propagated from the bottle of Fantome Noel. I’m excited to try this too, largely because this is the first yeast I’ve ever stepped up from a bottle.