Brettanomyces is a strain of yeast, used to fully or partially ferment and in some cases, to bottle condition beer, in which a small dose of yeast is added to the bottle before the beer undergoes some type of storage, conditioning period or shipment. In order to fully begin to understand this illusive yeast strain, […]
Two Roads Brewing Talks Tanker Truck Sours and Souring in a Tanker Truck (Literally)
In 2017 we faced a unique problem – we had developed a prototype of a beer we loved, but fears about lactic bacteria contaminating the main brewery were keeping us from brewing the beer on a large scale. Master Brewer Phil Markowski’s solution? Purchase and repurpose a 10-year-old dairy tanker truck. And just like that […]
Where the Wild Ales are!
Back before the age of modern refrigeration, sanitation and the understanding of how bacteria worked, it would be safe to say that most of the beers that people drank had some level of sourness to them. A sour flavor can be considered an unwanted flavor in modern beer styles and is sometimes a sign of […]