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General Discussions => Brewing Communities => Liffey Brewers => Topic started by: lordstilton on April 08, 2014, 04:54:31 PM

Title: Yogurt beer...looks interesting
Post by: lordstilton on April 08, 2014, 04:54:31 PM
http://www.notsoprofessionalbeer.com/2013/09/brewing-with-yogurt.html (http://www.notsoprofessionalbeer.com/2013/09/brewing-with-yogurt.html)
Title: Re: Yogurt beer...looks interesting
Post by: Eoin on April 08, 2014, 08:48:07 PM
You can make Kefir beer also but it has a short window before it turns totally sour.

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Title: Re: Yogurt beer...looks interesting
Post by: lordstilton on April 08, 2014, 10:29:38 PM
With this method you sour the beer before the boil so there is no bacterial in it to continue to sour it
Title: Re: Yogurt beer...looks interesting
Post by: mr hoppy on April 09, 2014, 09:59:04 AM
Ron P had a blog post about historic beers from north Germany fermented with lacto from yogurt.

I've heard of people using priobiotics for this on US boards.
Title: Re: Yogurt beer...looks interesting
Post by: imark on April 09, 2014, 11:41:25 AM
So who's going to man up and do this as an experiment then?
Title: Re: Yogurt beer...looks interesting
Post by: mr hoppy on April 09, 2014, 11:01:46 PM
I used WLP 677 (White Labs lacto culture) in a gose last year.

I made a starter in 3 litres of wort - last July during the warm spell - and incubated them as warm as I could.

I put the starter in a cardboard box lined on the inside within polystyrene and tinfoil. I cut a hole in the roof and put a desk lamp on top and I put a black material cover over the starter.

Excellent thread here, talks about this, and sour mashes and yoghurt cultures:
http://forum.northernbrewer.com/viewtopic.php?t=43587