Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Spontaneous Brewing with Fonta Flora
Fonta Flora's Todd Boera takes you through their first coolship brew of the season, offering practical tips for recipe development, mashing, boil, chilling/coolship, fruiting, and much more.
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In this course, Fonta Flora's Todd Boera will teach you several methods to help you brew your own spontaneous beers at the commercial and home scale. Topics for this course include:
- Designing a recipe for spontaneous beers
- Turbid mashing
- Evaluating and selecting hops
- Coolship techniques
- Prospecting for local bugs
- Fruit and adjuncts
- When to blend
- And much more
Course contents
5 chapters, 23 lessons, 37m of video
Chapter 1
About This Course
Chapter 2
Mash + Boil
- Turbid Mashing6:15
- Make Your Best Lambic-style Ale
- Turbid Mashing
- Performing a Turbid Mash
- Mash Challenges3:25
- Tips for Easy Lautering
- Hopping1:04
- Fonta Flora Brewery’s Appalachian Wild Ale Recipe
- Basic Kriek Lambic Recipe
- Make Your Best Lambic-Style Process
Chapter 3
Coolship
- Coolship Introduction7:13
- Coolships at Home2:47
- Prospecting for Bugs
- Coolships at Home: Equipment
- Coolships at Home: Process
- Coolships at Home: Other Considerations
- Experience at Fonta Flora7:28
Chapter 4
Fermentation & Blending
- Fermentation
- How 5 Belgian Brewers and Blenders Approach Fruit
- When to Blend Your Beer
- More Information
Chapter 5
Conclusion
- Thank You1:30
What students say
5.0 from 1 review
Very informative detail and entertaining!