Wild Yeast Starter for Home Brewing

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It's time to kick off summer right by starting this year's batch of homebrew. One of my hobbies is the awesome art of home brewing. Beer, wine, and mead is really fun to make and you can try a lot of different variations.
For complete recipe and instructions see our post at www.oakandhoneyfarm.com/2017/0...
This year I'm trying a different approach, making my own yeast! We listened to Jereme Zimmermann, the self-described "Appalachian Yeti Viking", while attending the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence and brought his ideas on traditional mead making to our own table.
Check out Jereme Zimmermann's book, Make Mead Like a Viking.
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@DonMega254 Год назад

Love the idea of having your own yeast, also would love to see some more of your work ❤️💛💚

@geological76 4 года назад

wow this is the most efficient and simple method ever, good!

@MrKennytrcka 3 года назад

I love your family and culture. Congratulations!

@janeosten525 5 лет назад

Simple and effective ! I like your style ! Go family !

@rettem9412 4 года назад

I spent almost 30 min trying to refine my search on how to do exactly this! I finally found this video and it’s EXACTLY what I needed to know! THANK YOU!!!

@kiwiprouddavids724 2 года назад

How did you get on ,You still using your wild yeast

@Tmac-rv9wq 11 месяцев назад

Same

@carlo.poumian 6 лет назад

Really awesome, Thank you for sharing knowledge!!!

@thehookups 5 лет назад

that was cool. i'm gonna try it this month.

@kenhandwork 5 лет назад

thanks, I keep ending up here when I forget what I was doing. its just so easy if you pay attention and wait.

@Saint696Anger 5 лет назад

Really neat I'll try this, thanks

@diabjalloud7106 4 года назад

And for how long time it will be ready to use as well tell me the quantity to use to make one liter wine

@jshillkiller2262 4 года назад

I like ur vid thanks..can u tell me what temp you kept the forming starter at and later when just refeeding? Thankyou

@darthplagueistheaverage2708 3 года назад

What a lovely family :"

@MirlaIvette 5 лет назад

Hi, thank u for the video! How do u store the mead starter? Did I miss it?

@hilliard665 5 лет назад

Dude you are so wholesome it's kinda weird but damn is this stuff cool I'm watching all your videos

@bjnopoli 6 лет назад

Your telling me a table spoon of that will do a gallon of mead? As good as a pack of yeast? And I assume that wild black berries will work good ?. Amazing...

@6themaker 5 лет назад

Bj Lucci so to be clear... what is the opinion ur trying to get across? You got a real bitchy attitude or you spoke like an idiot just saying ur comment made no sense with all the extra... you either have a nice thing to say or you have a question that wasn’t already answered.

@davidross1316 5 лет назад

@@6themaker eeeeeeeeeeeeeasy there

@stormevans6897 4 года назад

@@6themaker Sounds more like he wants to know for sure that this will actually work well, probably hoping for reassuring comments from more experienced brewers maybe?

@BrettyPOV 5 лет назад

How often do you add berries? Every time you feed?

@kgongsun8566 3 года назад

Love your video.Just wondering who else was hiding under your kitchen bench. A toddler and a Labrador popped up in sequence. They eagerly wanted to in your show. Haha. Great work.

@teekotrain6845 4 года назад

Can i use this to make a high alcohol kombucha....or a feuit wine?

@vlagavulvin3847 7 месяцев назад

So nice vid, thanks for it. Haven't you tried though to hold back all those pediococci, acetobacter, lactics and other bacterial thangz by means of adding some lysozyme just into your starter?

@VvAloe 28 дней назад

Superb thank you!!

@teresaolofson8187 6 лет назад

im so happy to have found this i dont want to buy a starter i want to do what your doing should i get a jar with a dispenser and how much do u take out and how much do you replace? the stuff you take out that you drink? and the other u save to brew more by adding more honey and water?

@starrychloe 4 года назад

teresa olofson - start with yeast packets first. Then add complexity later.

@teresaolofson8187 6 лет назад

oh gosh what did you say? how much do u take out and then what do u do?

@baddonkey6876 4 года назад

I have a habit of prepping several vials like that and isolating the yeast colonies first, takes a couple weeks but i found some pretty nice strains and in the process i seperated mould that tried to grow on some, that woulda made it taste like cardboard

@kiwiprouddavids724 2 года назад

How did you separate the mold, and you haven't got any tips for me on finding a good yeast

@stevenkling2256 3 года назад

And is the yeast on the fruit typical of the fruit or the region it lives in?

@trevorhilditch1447 5 лет назад

You just helped a 16 year old do communion on his own Thank you for letting me get closer to God God Bless You

@MrKoraboras 5 лет назад

What? I mean, I watched the video but all I saw was a reciple for getting yeast, where did religion come into this?

@MrKoraboras 5 лет назад

@@trevorhilditch1447 Nah, thanks.

@-hg7fc 4 года назад

m.wikihow.com/Take-Communion-in-the-Catholic-Church

@usamaalhaj80 5 лет назад

Hi I made some wort and put it in the jar among the trees one night after being covered with cheese cloth. After that jar closed by airlock for about two weeks. I noticed some foam on the sides of the jar and some bubbles I added more of the wort to the jar and within two days (after the previous two weeks )I noticed an active movement of the bubbles and did not see any mold What do you think about this result?

@user-pi4cf6fj7b 4 года назад

Did you taste it and use it for a brew?

@dalvarado3258 3 года назад

Can i get sick for use wild fermentation in my wine? I am worry, thanks

@hinterlanderswellness Год назад

a bit of mold by the surface is fine right?

@biancaclukey3062 21 день назад

Can you use blueberrys grown at home?

@vernedudeman 5 лет назад

GREAT VIDEO AND AWESOME FAMILY!!!

@redpanda1126 4 года назад

Quarantine send me here.. M gonna try these and had many ideas...hummmmm haha

@samaranis6504 4 года назад

@Aniruddha Suryawanshi you mean +25°c

@dorisagape9768 4 года назад

Aniruddha Suryawanshi will this yeast recipe work for muscadine wine?

@Nathouuuutheone 5 лет назад

How do you keep it going for long periods to make many fermented products? Do you have to feed it some nutrients? Do you get worried that acetobacters will start turning it into a vinegar starter?

@teekotrain6845 4 года назад

I would imagine they keep it refrigerated?

@baronjuliusevola5428 6 лет назад

good video

@julietlogan9666 5 лет назад

Thanks for sharing the video. Though it was not explained about the role and the wonder of what the raw unfiltered honey is, I assumed that it has all what it takes to combat unwanted bacteria that may spoil the natural fermentation process. Surely I will do this in my next batch of grapes fermentation.

@baddonkey6876 4 года назад

Oh yeah! And fruit flies have yeast all over them, if they get in there its a good thing as long as you isolate the yeast before brewing

@1N2themystic 3 года назад

Fruit flies will turn your brew to vinegar. Plus they love manure iv all kinds so they can spread all kinds of bacteria and bad yeasts. Thats why rule number one is no fruit flies. Where did you get your information?

@glennlopez6772 4 года назад

Thanks! What safe alternatives for the berries you used?

@Emmabackt 4 года назад

You can use any fruits, vegetables or herbs. I love using tomatoes and dates.

@gabrielbennett5162 2 года назад

Grapes and/or raisins reportedly work well.

@gameloozer731 5 лет назад

I’ve been interested in isolating the yeast in my sourdough starter for brewing. Do you think the honey could kill off the sour bacteria? Or would you know another way to select the yeast

@rowanhollingsworth5231 5 лет назад

I tried a small amount in a sourdough once, and it seemed to kill it completely. Even though that was a rookie mistake I made years ago, I wouldn't recommend it.

@starrychloe 4 года назад

Pure honey kills microbes. Watered down honey is ok. Sourdough yeast will not tolerate alcohol very much so you will be limited in your ABV %.

@diablovalley 5 лет назад

This looks great, thanks for sharing! Where I live, there's no blueberries. Can I use 3-4 grapes instead of the berries? Also, does the honey need to be raw? Where I live, processed honey is all we get. If it is no good, can I just use sugar?

@Dave_en 5 лет назад

Starter can be made from sugar and grapes, apples, banana etc all fruits contain some amount of yeast.

@starrychloe 4 года назад

Processed honey or sugar is ok, but it doesn’t have the same pizazz.

@t0xic698 Год назад

nearly every state in the US has juniper trees. you can use the juniper berries as a yeast starter as they're covered in a blue powder that is actually wild yeast and then you would wanna take the juniper berries out and dry them in a dehydrator or oven or w/e and you can make a mead with it or crush it and use it to season wild game meats etc

@pickles7734 3 года назад

WHAT A RUDE BOTTLE 😂 best dad joke of the year

@stevenkling2256 3 года назад

Is this just for brewing Mead?

@usamaalhaj80 5 лет назад

Hi Nice vedio I have a question Is this yeast really works to ferment wort for beer makeingredients? And what is that thing with blueberry in dish? Thanks

@oakandhoneyfarm990 5 лет назад

When we made this starter we used it to make two gallon batches of mead with a half cup of starter in each batch. We wanted a young mead and capped it at 30 days. We ended up with a light flavor and pleasant fizz with an ABV of 3.4%. The strain we caught may not be enough for proper beer fermentation but we plan on trying again to capture a different strain. It's part of the adventure 😁. The choice of berries does not matter so much, it's the natural yeast that's on the skins we we're interested in. Our blackberries were in season so that's what went in.

@usamaalhaj80 5 лет назад

@@oakandhoneyfarm990 Thank's This explanation is very clear

@Kayceesoutdoorliving 5 лет назад

I would say if you keep that strain going by making a new starter every time you cap your mead with the mead you are about to cap you could potentially through the process of time and creating environmental factors for higher alcohol content you could up that percentage by 3-5 % I'm not a yeast expert but I dont see why the yeasts that handle higher alcohol content wouldnt outlive the ones that cant make it above 3.5%

@usamaalhaj80 5 лет назад

@@Kayceesoutdoorliving Thank you

@araanand6992 6 лет назад

Which book is this ?

@klaytonlacey2027 4 года назад

Wonderful video! I have a few questions though. . Can I use this for making wine ad a bruers yeast? . And can I use this for grain free bread? . If so how much do I use per recipe/per gallon?

@brohub6161 4 года назад

@@SM-69 feed the yeast sugar and flour every 24hours ..they will become more sugar tolerant

@brohub6161 4 года назад

@@SM-69 however if you get your hands on raw honey ..go for it ... 1tbsp honey 2tbsp flour 2tbsp sugar 2tbsp yogurt using wildfruits for growing yeast can ruin your wine ...since you can't wash it there is serious chances of contamination ...

@dorisagape9768 4 года назад

Bro hub is this recipe good for just beer or wine too? Or do you need wine yeast for wine?

@HangryGiant 3 года назад

@@brohub6161 If you use that recipe for feeding your yeast, do you add any water and do you dump some of your original out? Im thinking i wont use the yogurt

@brohub6161 3 года назад

@@HangryGiant lukewarm water. Yogurt is a must

@elijahoconnell 6 лет назад

Does the honey water itself turn into mead to then drink

@Kayceesoutdoorliving 5 лет назад

Technically yes. It turns into mead. However what he is doing is harvesting wild yeast in his natural environment to utilize later in larger scale production. Most people who home brew will go to a shop and purchase a packet of yeast that contains a specific species of yeast. This is not the case with wild yeasts, there is a spectrum of yeast species on that BlackBerry, so when he puts it into the honey water it spreads and produces carbon dioxide and alcohol he takes a sample of the yeast that is left over in the jar and adds it to his larger scale brew, this inoculates the brew to allow the process to begin again. One could keep a strain of yeast going for decades provided enough care is taken. Look up the strain of yeast used to make Guinness, it's the sample culture they've been using since the 1700's.

@diabjalloud7106 4 года назад

What is the small pieces beside berries. Thank you

@stormevans6897 4 года назад

he said golden raspberries.

@gabrielbennett5162 2 года назад

If I were using store-bought fruit, I would probably put it in a bowl and leave it uncovered outside for a day or two before making starter, just to make sure it caught some wild yeast.

@terencechandler845 Год назад

Legends

@toresanderify 4 года назад

Do you treat it like a sourdough starter? Feeding it and stuff?

@vlagavulvin3847 7 месяцев назад

If only you have nothing to do, you can try it out of boredom.

@sammyyosemite2629 4 года назад

how much ABV can this kind of yeast tolerate?

@sammyyosemite2629 10 месяцев назад

Ok thanks@trixiek942

@araanand6992 6 лет назад

Suggest me a boom , how to make beer

@onemadmudder9686 11 месяцев назад

Can I capture wild yeast from unwashed pears from pear tree? Thank you!!

@adamk.7177 9 месяцев назад

The way it seems to work is that on most fruits, they have their own strains of yeast that grow on them and eat them as they ferment anyways. So the yeast on your unwashed pears should do fine to ferment it into a pear wine. I personally am trying to make some yeast from grapes since wine usually is made from grapes

@enatskie1215 5 лет назад

is this yeast in making wine? how eill you put in? just remix it in? response please

@d-nice3107 5 лет назад

The blackberry is just used to get wild yeast into your starter. Once it gets to the point where it is foaming (eating sugars) the yeast is alive - You would just add some of it to whatever you plan to ferment. This is your pitch, instead us putting a packet of yeast into a jar of warm water, and using yeast nutrients and creating a pitch that way. Not a huge fan, only because in some cases a wild yeast can be a strain that will kill you.

@enatskie1215 5 лет назад

D- Nice ow i see.. thank you so much for a informative detail..

@tristanglover1298 4 года назад

Can you substitute honey for sugar or molasses?

@vlagavulvin3847 7 месяцев назад

Honey and malt wort still have remains of proteins and nitrogen compounds that yeast need to grow up with. Any refined sugar is short of it.

@salmanyaqub4309 4 года назад

Can you use sugar instead of raw organic honey?

@1N2themystic 3 года назад

Yes.

@tristanderamos6455 5 лет назад

So the berry has to be wild?

@starrychloe 4 года назад

Tristan De Ramos - yes, to get the wild yeast on the berries.

@CanadianBrewingChannel 5 лет назад

How do you know that the fermentation isn't caused by Lactobacillus? That would only sour things and make very little alcohol.

@GatewayImage 5 лет назад

typically in a gravity reading. only alcohol production will lead to a significant drop in gravity

@CanadianBrewingChannel 5 лет назад

@@GatewayImage There are strains of Lacto that produce a lot of alcohol as well. But if your gravity drops you are more than likely dealing with wild yeast. Cheers

@GatewayImage 5 лет назад

@@CanadianBrewingChannel i think you answered your question for yourself then. your original comment states that lacto fermentation produces sourness, but little alcohol. now you say that certain strains can produce "a lot of alcohol". if there is a gravity drop, then there has been alcohol production. plain and simple.

@CanadianBrewingChannel 5 лет назад

@@GatewayImage I was trying to answer it for you:)

@wormwood6424 5 лет назад

Doesn't lacto only come from milk?

@teresaolofson8187 6 лет назад

this is a probiotic right? the longer you leave it the more alcohol? or ? how does that work.....im just interested in the probiotic part of it im ok with the small amount of alcohol

@capfogful 6 лет назад

Alcohol depends on the sugar content and the type/types of yeast and bacteria you captured. If the sugars have fermented out than there is reallí nothing it will make it more alcoholic not even time. I dont really know nothing about probiotics, but i think honey is alredy probiotic, this process is mainly for brewing i would say.

@teresaolofson8187 6 лет назад

im making mead and one batch was alcohlic tasting and not good can i add more honey and save it will the probiotics eat this new feed and i can get the balance back? so it takes out the harshness

@capfogful 6 лет назад

teresa olofson If you add honey it will just start fermenting all over again. First you have to add some sort of stabilizer, like potassium sorbate or potassium metabisulfate, but the bad flavour could be caused by infection, or just the mead being very young. How old is your mead? I hope I answered some of your question.

@capfogful 6 лет назад

Also, I'm not really a mead expert, I'm more of a beer guy, I recomend you try this the forum hombrewtalk, they are really helpfull, and have a lot more experience than I do.

@Kayceesoutdoorliving 5 лет назад

I make a fair bit of mead at home (5-20 gallons a year). Mead I'm my opinion isnt good young. I like my meads to age a year or 2. I bottle and open a bottle every 6 months to taste, the flavors are complex and change significantly, mead is an underappreciated beverage though I'm glad to see it becoming more popular. I'm going to attempt to capture my own wild yeast perhaps this week sometime as I have some strawberry mead in the works from last summer's harvest. I have a bucket of honey and strawberries in my freezer. my girlfriend got the honey in Italy and the strawberries I grew myself from plants I purchased and wild strawberries I cultivated. About 5 years ago I dug up 3 tiny wild strawberry plants... now there is literally patches of them that are massive.

@swamijeevanpromod1657 4 года назад

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@user-df2so4js7x 4 года назад

I was watching other yeast video, they said not to use tap water because its treated but distilled because it kills the yeast culture.

@starrychloe 4 года назад

D - don’t use chlorinated water! Use a water filter to remove chlorine or let the water sit overnight or boil and cool the water or use well water or distilled water or spring water.

@russellwhite3415 6 лет назад

Do you have to use honey

@joshuahunt3755 6 лет назад

i would think sugar would be ok, but i have the same question.

@valornation9845 5 лет назад

Joshua Hunt it's not mead then if there is no honey, but yes you need to use honey to make mead because of the yeast inside of unprocessed honey

@Kayceesoutdoorliving 5 лет назад

Depends on what you want to make. This is just for cultivating yeast. I could take the yeast from this culture and make beer, wine, mead, whatever.

@sharifnahian4773 4 года назад

Alcohol percent will be?

@stormevans6897 4 года назад

That will vary from yeast culture to yeast culture as they have different tolerances due to genetics and such.

@Bamaboompa 4 года назад

Got an ignorant question. Very interested in this and walking down my street I noticed honeysuckle blooming in a vacant lot as well as a couple of wild blackberries. Also, my wife's friend just dropped off "homemade" wild honey. BUT... if I take much more than a tablespoon she'll have my ass. Wondering about a small amount in a small jar with a couple of the berries in it and leave it by the honeysuckles overnight. Thanks again for the video.

@hamad1979 2 года назад

wow so Active...

@letitburn1579 4 года назад

😎

@indianutilizer 4 года назад

Nice baby

@Moostery 6 лет назад

So basically you are making blackberry mead to use as a starter lol.

@feralhog1693 4 года назад

Honey has yeast in it, those wooden sticks have yeast on it. Next time, you might want to boil the honey water and use sterilized metal spoon to mix it up, to make sure it is 100% your local yeast.

@user-pi4cf6fj7b 4 года назад

We don't even know whether he got brewer's yeast in there 😅 Would be better to smell the starter and tell about the aromas in vid.

@user-jc8tj5co7d 5 лет назад

I use candida lol

@ParamjeetKaur-ko3vh 5 лет назад

Good people

@ChaosAI24 5 лет назад

Actually you don't have to dilute the honey. You don't need anything else but yeast that's why it's better not to dilute it!

@jameshicks9954 7 лет назад

using shit tap water are you crazy sir.!!

@fiend116 6 лет назад

Should it really matter for a starter? As far as I'm aware the reason not to use tap water is purely because it tastes harsh in some areas.

@StorMacce 6 лет назад

yup where i live we take groundwater its the finest type you can get

@kamasutraking666 6 лет назад

more yeast starting activation properties if the water is not sterile

@MirlaIvette 5 лет назад

I would agree. Chlorine kills microbes. And to top it off there are also other toxins involved.

@6themaker 5 лет назад

James Hicks well shity “Tap water” is only shitty in some places where I live I can drink from the lake and the water is better than the water in Arizona

@deondebruin7741 3 года назад

Your children should be an example to those nutcases burning and looting in your country. That little girl sounds so polite

@wmtarr886 Год назад

way too much sugar (honey) than a wild starter needed. I mean, if you have wild bees and they have enough pollen to work on you probably only need a teaspoon of something sweet in a litre of water