Author: Andrew April 11, 2015

I like the idea of experimenting.

First, I saw this on Twitter:

 

@CffmBeech is Country Fresh Farm Market on Beechmont Avenue.  It’s about 1/4 mile away from my LHBS, Paradise Brewing.  I needed to drop by Paradise for a hop rhizome.  And I’m a beer explorer, so I couldn’t resist wanting this.  So I dropped by CFFM and after finding the bottles.

I sought some help from a friend that is going to (or just graduated from) the Seibel Institute.  He was asking if I used brett for the Saison, since that’s the traditional fermentation ‘method’.

So I thought about something…

So while I was stopping by Paradise picking up that hop rhizome, I got a 1-gallon carboy to try this out.  My Saison was nearly done fermenting, but I racked about a gallon into the second carboy (which was washed and sterilized, of course!), sprayed sanitizer around the cap of Brett is my Copilot, and poured all but about 3/4″ of it into a glass, and swirled the rest and pitched it into the second carboy.

Within 5 minutes, the airlock was bubbling, but I don’t know if that was because of the Brett or if it was because of other reasons.  There is no pellicle yet (a few days after pitching), but there’s still time.  And I’m going to save the yeast/brett mix for my next Saison.

Oh, and this happened too:

Cheers!

PS: Brett Is My Copilot is a pretty good beer, too!  It’s tart and citrusy.  I can definitely see this as a beer to enjoy while sitting outside on a warm Cincinnati summer day.