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Contents:
  Lacto update.. FYI (Mike Eyre)


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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 11:25:23 -0400
From: Mike Eyre <mikeeyre74 at gmail.com>
Subject: Lacto update.. FYI

I wrote to WYeast and told them I wanted to make 
10 gallons of a Berliner Weiss style of beer and I had
one old package of their lacto strain. This is what they
told me to do:

"Make a 1 Liter sized starter with DME at a gravity of 1.020.  Add 
your 5335 and incubate at 86oF for 1 week.  Give it shake every
day to knock out some of the CO2.  Make sure you are very
sanitary... as this an easy one to infect."

I mashed 1lb of grain with 1.33 qts of water on the stove top in my 
micro brewery (just for doing all grain starter worts)  and then 
sparged it appropriately. I diluted the wort to 1.020 and boiled for 
15 minutes and cooled it to 95 degrees. I pitched the lacto culture
in one jar and I pitched a couple tablespoons of raw grain into 
another jar, just to see what would happen. So far, nothing 
doing in the lacto jar.. but the raw grain jar is starting to form
some sort of stuff on the surface that looks like krausen. We'll 
keep an eye on it and see hat happens..


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