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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • I have fermenting a split batch of wild “tripel” both with the same wild yeast culture that is very belgiany, instead of candi sugar, one batch has a kilo of honey from my bee hive and the other has a kilo of palm sugar I got at the asian grocery store. Additionally I also have (from the same mash as the tripel) a split batch of saison to test out two new wild yeast cultures, one harvested from my bee hive (comb, honey and worker bees in the starter), and the other from Juniper berries my wife collected on Granddad’s Bluff near LaCrosse, WI when she was there visiting relatives earlier this year. They’re all fermenting away together at 75F/24C, initially it was quite sulfury smelling but that has tapered off in the last day or so. Hopefully they turn out well.















  • I’ve caught a few new wild yeast cultures that I need to try out in some beer, one from juniper berries my wife brought back from her trip to a wilderness area near LaCrosse, WI and the other from the honey, wax and bees from my bee hive (which had been kinda limping along and not doing much but doing enough to keep me from giving up, it recently fully sprang to life). So I need to plan some sort of brew to try them out in. I’d like to maybe split a 5 gallon batch between them both, which means I need to empty out my 3 gallon carboys that are all currently filled with various wines so that may prove to be a bit of a challenge. The beer will be a saison, of course.

    I also pulled the ~40lbs/18kgs of blackberries I harvested last August out of the freezer and made wine with them, it’s been chugging along for about a week now and I need to press it soon, hopefully today or tomorrow if I can carve out some time, I’d prefer to not wait until the weekend if possible.



  • I got my bock to finally attenuate after putting a tsp of amylase enzyme into it, it was stuck at 1.025 and now finished at 1.008 so I just recently kegged that. I’m planning on bottling my wild yeast saison this weekend. It had the same wort as the bock, but the wild yeast did not care about the longer chain dextrins and just fermented everything anyway.

    I have a new wild yeast capture that might be promising. And another capture that looks like it’s ready for risking a batch of beer on. So I need to get that planned out. I got a bunch of Kernza (perennial grain) so I may try that with it in a saison-like beer.