Reculture - Straffe Hendrik Wild 2015

[hazelbrew]

Another reculture. I had just one bottle of this and kept the dregs in the fridge with bottle covered in cling film. I wanted to reculture so I could add some to a single demijohn, and keep some for a later brew.

Straffe Hendrik Wild 2015 is a wild yeast Tripel, at 9% ABV.

method:
- 1 cm left in bottle
- 150ml water and 7g DME to make a OG 1020 ish starter
- bottle dregs added.
- aeration just shaking.

This got going fairly quickly with obvious signs of fermentation.

I then added half to a demijohn of the Coopers wheat I made. A sample of this recently was clear and tasted full of promise. definitely changing over the coopers wheat it is based on.

the remaining half I added to 150ml of starter to make a small 200ml starter again.



later in the ferment


It had odd behaviour when you shake - looked like it got "ropey"? the bubbles took a lot longer to rise than other starters. Almost like the liquid had got thicker. Makes me wonder what else is in the starter? e.g. bacteria? pediococcus maybe?

I crash cooled this in the fridge, decanted off half, and then put half each into 2 white labs yeast vials.

the starter was clear and very tasty mixture of fruit and funk. and all that from a starter with no hops and only pale DME