054: Mike Schilling | Wild Cider & Yeasts

054: Mike Schilling | Wild Cider & Yeasts

Author: Ria Windcaller: Award-winning Cidermaker, Podcaster | Craft Beer Columnist November 9, 2016 Duration: 1:01:55

Mike Schilling delves into the joy of letting a cider go wild, stopping fermentation, double pitching yeast and funky/sour cider.

This chat was recorded before a live audience at Beerology in Northampton Massachusetts on Friday November 4, 2016. Mike and his wife Jordana Starr who co-own the store invited cidermakers traveling to CiderDays to stop in pick up supplies. It is an easy on off location just a block shy of the hub and bub of downtown Northampton. Note that there is ample parking behind the storefront.

In this chat we discuss:

  • Wild yeast
  • Double pitching yeast
  • Fermentation temperatures
  • Making cider in an apartment vs in a cellar

Contact info for Mike Schilling

Beerology - website

Address:

342 Pleasant Street, #1

Northampton, Massachusetts

 Mentions in this chat

"Funky Lama", a nano brewery in Normandy France is making beer with cider from Manoir d'Apreval in Normandy -

The brewers Octave Letellier and Baptiste Guyot do a double yeast adjunct. First with the yeast of the beer and then at the end of the first fermentation of the wort they add the yeast from cider as well as Apple juice. Listen to the chat with Octave Letellier's mom Agathe Letellier episode #049. 

Ask for the following 3 #CiderGoingUP Campaign cider supporters - By supporting these cider makers, you in turn help Ciderville.

 Big Apple Hard Cider - NYC

 Kurant Cider - Pennsylvania

 Oliver's Cider and Perry - Herefordshire/UK

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