Martin Rundkvist on Nostr: East Asian yeast is great. They didn't grow crops that can be malted, which converts ...
East Asian yeast is great. They didn't grow crops that can be malted, which converts starch into fermentable sugar. Instead they combined the yeast microfungus with an aspergillus microfungus that does the starch conversion, and also adds a lot of interesting flavour. Historically they never had a monoculture yeast as we know it in Europe, because that would have been useless to them. And of course they had no idea about microfungal species.
#brewing
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