I'm interested to know if people have experience of opening bottled and fully carbonated beers to add Brett to them at a later date?
The inspiration came after a recent batch of Tripel turned out pretty poor; however, at the time of bottling I put aside 6 bottles to which I added dregs from a bottle of Boon Marriage Parfait. The bottles with the brett turned out really well, and I was subsequently wondering if I could salvage the poor bottled beer by giving them a late addition of Brett.
That then got me thinking that I could in fact try experimenting by adding Brett to other commercial beers to see how they behave. Since the tripel I made was attempting to be akin to Westmalle, my first thought is to pitch some Brett into Westmalle bottles and see what goes on. Others I'm also thinking of trying: Duvel, Straffe Hendrick (I'm a big fan of their Wild versions, which I'd be curious to try to reproduce) and La Trappe Quadrupel.
In the case of the Westmalle I'm not overly concerned about bottle bombs, as those bottles are pretty thick already and the carbonation already in the bottles will mostly work out when I open them up. My homebrew has been bottled in Westmalle bottles, so the same goes.
I'd be interested to hear thoughts, or success / failure stories!
The inspiration came after a recent batch of Tripel turned out pretty poor; however, at the time of bottling I put aside 6 bottles to which I added dregs from a bottle of Boon Marriage Parfait. The bottles with the brett turned out really well, and I was subsequently wondering if I could salvage the poor bottled beer by giving them a late addition of Brett.
That then got me thinking that I could in fact try experimenting by adding Brett to other commercial beers to see how they behave. Since the tripel I made was attempting to be akin to Westmalle, my first thought is to pitch some Brett into Westmalle bottles and see what goes on. Others I'm also thinking of trying: Duvel, Straffe Hendrick (I'm a big fan of their Wild versions, which I'd be curious to try to reproduce) and La Trappe Quadrupel.
In the case of the Westmalle I'm not overly concerned about bottle bombs, as those bottles are pretty thick already and the carbonation already in the bottles will mostly work out when I open them up. My homebrew has been bottled in Westmalle bottles, so the same goes.
I'd be interested to hear thoughts, or success / failure stories!