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Bioprospecting – Notes from AABG Educational Session

May 22, 2017 / Leave a Comment

I volunteered to give a talk on bioprospecting (aka wild yeast capture) to my home brew club, the AABG, before our May monthly meeting. This post is a recap of the material I covered in that talk, supplemented with links to sources I pulled from and/or more information on specific topics if you want to dive further … [Read more…]

Bioprospecting – Capturing Local Microbes For Fermenting Beer

February 23, 2017 / Leave a Comment

The idea of wild yeast capture, sometimes known by the much cooler name bioprospecting, for making beer has interested me for a long time. I have started down this path a couple of times, with my first attempt successfully capturing a yeast from a blend of Michigan grown apples pressed into cider. This was used in my first attempt at making … [Read more…]