So several weeks back I was running near my home when I came across a blackberry bush. I grabbed my empty water bottle and filled it with some blackberries from the bush expecting to take some home and do something with them in my brewing.
When I returned home I stuck them in the fridge overnight. The next afternoon over the weekend, I noticed something going on in my keezer and went to check and found over 1 gallon of ESB had spilled out a leaking corny. I sucked up what I could into a bucket and then was going to pitch it until I realized, this would make a great base beer for a secondary experiment with my new wild blackberries.
So I filled some sanitized containers with collected ESB beer and dropped in a couple blackberries. I left them for a couple weeks and this is what I found.
Looks like some type of fermentation is going on. I can see little white specs flaoting up into the white film so I am assuming CO2 is at work in there. Could just be from what was left in the beer when I put it in the bottles though. They have been sitting for 3 weeks now and they should be flat now but the krausen or whatever this is is still there.
When I returned home I stuck them in the fridge overnight. The next afternoon over the weekend, I noticed something going on in my keezer and went to check and found over 1 gallon of ESB had spilled out a leaking corny. I sucked up what I could into a bucket and then was going to pitch it until I realized, this would make a great base beer for a secondary experiment with my new wild blackberries.
So I filled some sanitized containers with collected ESB beer and dropped in a couple blackberries. I left them for a couple weeks and this is what I found.
Looks like some type of fermentation is going on. I can see little white specs flaoting up into the white film so I am assuming CO2 is at work in there. Could just be from what was left in the beer when I put it in the bottles though. They have been sitting for 3 weeks now and they should be flat now but the krausen or whatever this is is still there.