don't regret it at all! wear the scars with pride! damn, i remember for other things i was f'n around with....after 7 years i finally made the breakthrough to grow mushrooms myself. and i got my ass kicked trying to isolate my own enymes with protien purification...but all that's still on a back burner for me. might become a revived project!
oh and damn, never have figured out how to use koji mold, not to say i didn't try a lot! another one for a revisit!
edit: being that you want to culture your own yeast to, the mushroom thing maybe practical, it involves learning sterile technique....
(and, if successful...a selfie in what i've heard was called the boneyard would be IMPRESSIVE!
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