After spending some time talking Lambics with Les from Brewmasters of Alpharetta and discussing the various techniques used to produce them, we decided to get together and do a collaborative brew. Brewday was this past weekend and went fairly well. We decided to abort our planned turbid mash since the wind was fairly strong and we were having problems with the burners.
I had saved a half pint of wort with Bugfarm V from East Coast Yeast and prepared some starters. Half of what I had was pitched into the stirplate with fresh wort and stepped up to ~1.5L. The rest was carefully poured into two sanitized White Labs vials on top of oak cubes that I had boiled to remove the flavor. These vials and the oak would get pitched after primary fermentation to add the lacto, pedio and brett bugs that would be growing in the oak.
