BBXMTF-0723 / MTF America’s Finest Funk Blend

Availability: One Time Only!

Source: A “living” culture blend propagated from bottled dregs sourced from the Milk The Funk bottle share held in June 2023 at Homebrew Con in San Diego, CA.

The yearly Homebrew Con Milk The Funk Meet Up & Bottle Share is THE place to try some of best-made sour and funky homebrews.   A wide array of spontaneous and cultivated house mixed-culture beer dregs went into this blend, ensuring this year’s release will be completely unique but just as complex as Baltifunk (2016), Funkapolis (2017), Funklandia (2018), Funk Island (2019), and Funkbergh (2022).

Read more about the Milk The Funk Mega Blend in the July/August 2018 issue of Zymurgy, “The Place of Brewing: Going Wild with the Great Brettanomyces Megablend”.

This blend likely contains a unique collection of Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, among other random microbes contributed by Milk the Funk members.

Warning: No results can be guaranteed. This blend has not been tested by Bootleg Biology.

Description

Catalog: BBXMTF-0723 / MTF America’s Finest Funk Blend

Brewing Info*:

• Type: Yeast & Lactic Acid Bacteria blend. Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, and other wild variants.
• Pitching Rate: Directly pitchable into 5 gallons of 1.050 or lower wort
• Estimated Attenuation: 96%-100%
• Estimated Final pH: 3.2-3.5
• Flavor/Aroma Profile: Funky, Sour; varies batch-to-batch
• Flocculation: Low to medium; Higher with prolonged aging
• Recommended Fermentation Temperature:
  • For quick souring (less than 3 months): 70-80ºF
  • For gradual souring: below 70ºF

Product Category: Dusty Bottoms Collection™

The Dusty Bottoms Collection™ is our ode to unique and hard to find cultures sourced from commercial fermentations. As much as we love local yeast, there are just some flavors and aromas that can’t be reproduced by plucking yeast out of thin air.

Many of these cultures have been used for generations to make some of the most consistently wonderful beverages in the world. Whether it’s brewer’s yeast, Brettanomyces, or Lactobacillus…these aren’t Local Yeast by our definition, but certainly were local at one time.

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