I've been playing around with building a yeast lab, and collected 12 samples from my yard and dropped them into a test tube of plain 1.020 wort. Some started fermenting within a couple days, other started vigorous fermentation within a week or so.
However, when I started looking at samples under the microscope, none of them had any yeast cells, just tiny hair like bacteria, and maybe some stuff like a pediococcus.
Do wild fermentation enthusiasts mess with this stuff too, or should I try to exclude all that and focus on yeast?
I just streaked some agar plates with the active samples last night too, so we'll see.
However, when I started looking at samples under the microscope, none of them had any yeast cells, just tiny hair like bacteria, and maybe some stuff like a pediococcus.
Do wild fermentation enthusiasts mess with this stuff too, or should I try to exclude all that and focus on yeast?
I just streaked some agar plates with the active samples last night too, so we'll see.