Picked some Juniper berries at Sapphire Point outside of Breckenridge CO. When I get home they'll go into a yeast starter and we'll see if we can get a good culture for making beer.

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I got my hands on what is supposedly the Ancient Egyptian sourdough culture that made some headlines a few years ago. On the left is the culture in white flour and on the right is emmer flour I've milled myself. I'm gonna build these up and make some bread and of course some of it will get into a beer at some point.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-bread-did-ancient-egyptians-eat

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My LIVE sourdough starter from Iowa decided to tour Puerto Rico en route to Oregon. ✈️🌍 It apparently was imbued with some Donroe Doctrine culture.

I briefly blamed geopolitics and closed airspace—but Breadtopia assures me starter survives 10 days in transit. Proof that wild yeast is tougher than logistics. 🍞
Screenshot of USPS tracking included for the curious.

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Drinking some Tree Beer, turned out pretty well. Tree flavor is mild but present, some nice esters from the wild yeast, smooth mouthfeel from the flaked barley.

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So I decided to dry a bunch of the abbee culture. I made too thicc of a layer, it really grabbed the parchment paper and I had to touch the yeast chunks to get it all off.

It is a wild culture and drying yeast at home in a dehydrator isn't exactly a sanitary process so I'm not too concerned about it, but I would have preferred to not be touching it with my bare hands, could have used gloves I suppose.

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Pretty sure we're at (or extremely close to) terminal gravity on the wild yeast (abbey culture) saison. Temperature correction puts it at 1.0056 making this beer around 5.6% abv.

I'll probably package it sometime later this week, and the kegged half should be ready for Christmas.

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Drinking some Hive Saison. Wild fermented with a yeast culture grown up from honey, comb, and even a few unfortunate worker bees from my hive.

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Granddad's Kernza Saison has finally cleared (now that there's like 8 bottles left). Now it tastes great and looks great too.

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Palatki kernza saison is finally carbonated, though it feels like it could be a little bit more carbonated than it is. Regardless it's quite delicious, somewhat tart, a little funky, very fruity.

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Granddad's Kernza Summer Saison.

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