Fermenting with Brett and Lager yeast.

Originally posted by CLevar
Brett has (in general) a high level of esterase activity, meaning that in the presence of an acid and an alcohol, ester formation is favored. And while you won’t get acid levels to the same level as, say, lactate when LAB are going hard, there are a variety of carboxylic acids that will be present in fermenting beer. Combine this with with compounds like ATHP, etc, and I have a hard time believing that a "POF-" Sacch. fermented beer finished with Brett. won’t have any Brett. character.

Originally posted by HornyDevil

Originally posted by CLevar
Brett has (in general) a high level of esterase activity, meaning that in the presence of an acid and an alcohol, ester formation is favored. And while you won’t get acid levels to the same level as, say, lactate when LAB are going hard, there are a variety of carboxylic acids that will be present in fermenting beer. Combine this with with compounds like ATHP, etc, and I have a hard time believing that a "POF-" Sacch. fermented beer finished with Brett. won’t have any Brett. character.

Do any of you other guys know what Caleb is talking about here?

He’s referring to TetraHydroPyridines.

I’d love to go further into this if any of you are interested and I can post some informative links as well. However, if nobody is interested and it’s going to be just he and I discussing it, I don’t think it’s worth it.

What do you guys think?

Originally posted by HornyDevil

Originally posted by CLevar
Brett has (in general) a high level of esterase activity, meaning that in the presence of an acid and an alcohol, ester formation is favored. And while you won’t get acid levels to the same level as, say, lactate when LAB are going hard, there are a variety of carboxylic acids that will be present in fermenting beer. Combine this with with compounds like ATHP, etc, and I have a hard time believing that a "POF-" Sacch. fermented beer finished with Brett. won’t have any Brett. character.

Do any of you other guys know what Caleb is talking about here?

He’s referring to TetraHydroPyridines.

I’d love to go further into this if any of you are interested and I can post some informative links as well. However, if nobody is interested and it’s going to be just he and I discussing it, I don’t think it’s worth it.

What do you guys think?

Originally posted by CLevar
Fire up a new thread!

Originally posted by CLevar
I won’t have much time today during the day to post, but later tonight I can get some screen grabs from some cool papers.

Originally posted by HornyDevil

Originally posted by CLevar
Fire up a new thread!

I’m going to create a thread about the basic chemistry of Brett fermentations and what it can do additionally to saccharomyces. Hope you guys will enjoy it.

Originally posted by CLevar
I won’t have much time today during the day to post, but later tonight I can get some screen grabs from some cool papers.

Neat.

Thank you for the discussion, I appreciate all the input.