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Wild yeast and bacteria may be used for brewing, winemaking and distilling. These strains lend a wide range of unique, specific tastes and aromas, such as acidity, barnyard funk and earthy notes.
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Bootleg Biology – The Mad Fermentation Saison Blend. BB: 31/06/2021
£11.66This blend integrates beautifully with fruity and tropical hops, with the unique Brett culture keeping hop aromatics crisp and bright for an extended time. For best results use a highly fermentable wort, dry hopping during the tail of active fermentation, and carbonating naturally.
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Bootleg Biology – BBXBRLN – Berliner Blend – BETA- BB: 01/07/2021
£9.99This Berliner Blend is designed to make tart, funky, and flavorful Berliners using traditional Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus Berliner cultures.
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Bootleg Biology – Chardonnay (S. cerevisiae boulardii) BB: 01/07/2021
£9.99Chardonnay is a clean fermenter but produces mild phenolics and a touch of citrusy & banana aroma at normal ale temperatures.
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Bootleg Biology – Funk Weapon #1 BB:
£11.66This rare, and commercially unavailable yeast isolate, produces pungent horse blanket and fresh leather aromas. Perfect for breaking out the funk in farmhouse-style beers.
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Bootleg Biology – Funk Weapon #2 BB:
£11.66perfect for 100% Brettanomyces fermentations, especially Brett IPAs. Amplifies citrus and tropical fruit-forward hop flavors and aromas into a punchy ripeness.
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Bootleg Biology – Funk Weapon #3 BB:
£11.66a versatile culture that creates wildly different flavor and aroma profiles depending on the age of fermentation. Young fermentations produce mild musty funk and ripe tropical fruit, while older and bottle conditioned ferments show off unique flavors and aromas of strawberry, cherry and tropical candy.
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Bootleg Biology – S. arlingtonesis BB: 06/07/2021
£10.83This culture ferments extremely clean in the 50’sF (lagers) & 60’sF (Kolsch and Lager hybrids), and has subtle fruity/citrus esters in the higher end of the Ale fermentation range (wheat-centric beers).
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Bootleg Biology – Sour Solera Blend (Spring 2021) BB:
£11.66Sour Solera™ Blend contains a unique and complex collection of Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus and other funky yeast and souring bacteria pulled from an active fermentation.
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Bootleg Biology – Sour Weapon L (Lactobacillus plantarum Blend) BB: 06/07/2021
£9.99If you’re looking to drop the pH of wort as quickly and low as possible, Sour Weapon L is your go to Lacto blend.
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Bootleg Biology – Sour Weapon P (Pediococcus pentosaceus Blend) BB: 29/06/2021
£9.99We chose this specific blend because of its ability to sour quickly and cleanly at a range of temperatures, and due to its mild hop tolerance.
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WHC Funky Pineapple. BB: 31/10/2021
£6.24A very interesting yeast to experiment with. Produces powerful tropical fruit flavours at normal ale temperatures. At higher ale temperatures, it starts to produce funky and saison like aromas with even more aggressive pineapple notes.
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Escarpment Berliner Brett I BB: 26/06/2021
£11.24This strain of Brettanomyces anomalus works well in traditional style Berliners, and anywhere subtle, refined Brett character is desired. It shows restrained funk, and the fruit profile tends toward citrus and white wine.
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Escarpment Brett B BB: 11/08/2021
£11.24A classic Brettanomyces bruxellensis strain, isolated from a classic abbey beer, is typically used in secondary fermentations where balanced Brett character (fruit, funk) is desired.
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Escarpment Brett Q BB:
£11.24This unique Brettanomyces bruxellensis strain was originally isolated from a barrel-aged sour beer from Quebec. Tasting notes include ripe strawberry, pear, apple, with underlying funk.
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Escarpment Brett M BB: 30/06/2021
£9.58A house favourite Brettanomyces bruxellensis strain, which develops funky and fruity flavours quickly.
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Escarpment Mothership Brett Blend BB:
£11.24A funky grab bag of our favourite Brett strains! This blend typically contains 10 individual strains.
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WLP4022 Wallonian Farmhouse II BB: 17/08/2021
£9.58This is a single strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolated from the same source as our Wallonian Farmhouse strain, a well-known brewery hailing from the Walloon region of Belgium.
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WLP4060 The Yeast Bay – Forager BB: 26/11/2021
£9.58Forager is a single strain of STA1+ Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii isolated from Spring harvest honeycomb. It imparts a flavor and aroma profile of sauvignon blanc grape must and dry lime peel and produces beer with a dry, earthy finish.
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Wyeast 3278 Belgian Lambic Blend. BB: 12/11/2021
£6.91This blend contains yeast and bacteria cultures important to the production of spontaneously fermented beers of the Lambic region. Specific proportions of a Belgian style ale strain, a sherry strain, two Brettanomyces strains, a Lactobacillus culture, and a Pediococcus culture produce the desirable flavor components of these beers as they are brewed in Brussels.
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Wyeast 5112 BRETTANOMYCES BRUXELLENSIS. BB: 22/01/2022
£10.49This strain of wild yeast was isolated from brewery cultures in the Brussels region of Belgium. It produces the classic “sweaty horse blanket” character of indigenous beers such as gueuze, lambics and sour browns and may form a pellicle in bottles or casks.
