Has anyone used this mix? I'm taking my first foray into sours. I just brewed a Saison and I'm wondering if I should just leave it in primary for the long haul or if I should rack to secondary in a week or so. Any opinions? The website says that the sour character takes a few months to start but they're not specific about timelines.
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Re: Yeast Bay Farmhouse Sour
Leave it in primary for the long haul. I've had sours in primary for 1.5 years 
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: Yeast Bay Farmhouse Sour
Hey Mike, is your primary fermenter a plastic pail or a carboy?
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Re: Yeast Bay Farmhouse Sour
Hey Pete. Glass.
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Re: Yeast Bay Farmhouse Sour
Right. So follow Brian's advice and leave it.
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Re: Yeast Bay Farmhouse Sour
from what I've read on the subject you basically don't have to worry about autolysis with beers with brett in them - the brett seems capable of devouring the sach death byproducts. Whether this explanation is 100% accurate or not I don't know, but I do know a lot of mixed fermentation beers we know and love from belgium don't get racked into secondary.
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Re: Yeast Bay Farmhouse Sour
Thanks folks. Looks like I'll be tucking it in for the long haul and see what happens. I'm now thinking I may rack half of it onto some fruit at some point. If memory serves there's no Brett in this mix. Just Sacch and Lacto. I'll (eventually) post an update about how it went!
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