So this week we talked with Escarpment Labs Co Founder Richard Preiss about Kveik Yeast and what makes them such a unique ingredient to beer making.
This yeast is relatively new to North America and comes from Norway. In the olden days all Norwegian farmers brewed beer from their own grain. The yeast was kept by the farmers themselves between brews. If someone had a brew go sour, or found that the yeast in any way had gone bad or died, they were supplied with new, healthy yeast from a neighboring farm. As the farming was modernized and beer became commercially available, most of the farmhouse brewing died out and the yeast with it.
Many places where the brewing tradition survived brewers started to use bread yeast from the local store instead of the old yeast from the farm.
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