wild yeast
Nature's brewing microbes
Wild yeast refers to naturally occurring yeasts present in the environment—on fruit skins, in the air, on surfaces—as opposed to commercially cultivated strains.
In brewing and baking, wild yeast can produce unpredictable but distinctive flavors: The sourdough gets its tang from wild yeast.
Some brewers deliberately capture wild yeast for spontaneous fermentation, while others consider it contamination.
- fermentationMicrobial sugar conversion
- sourdoughWild-yeast bread starter
- breadLeavened flour product
- Belgian aleBeer from Flanders region
- starterInitiator of action
dough · cider · bloom · skin · natural wine · grapes · grape skins · airborne · fruit flies · spontaneous · sour · funky · terroir · natural · craft · brewing · cultures · microbes
- YeastsMalassezia
- fermentationwine fermentation, lacto-fermentation, starter, natural fermentation, sourdough starter
- winemakingwinery, winemaking, crushing, grapevines, grape vines
- ancient brewingmead, ale, brewing, amphorae, amphoras
- beer ingredientsmalt, hops, water, grains, barley
- sourdoughstarter, levain, feeding, starter culture, mother
wild yeastbrewer's yeast
Fungus that ferments beer
baker's yeast · instant yeast · active dry yeast · wine yeast
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