Street Trash

Street Trash

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Street Trash, it’s more than just an ideology, it’s a systematic, structured set of beliefs, values, and ideas held by a group or individual that shapes how they perceive, interpret, and act within the social, economic, and political world.

Real spontaneous beer involves exposing the entire complement of wort into the environment, cooling it overnight and fermenting whatever wild and wonderful microbes landed on it. It’s beer, just as nature intended: infected.

Although our so called “Spon” program involves mostly very unspontaneous
inoculation of wild caught mixed cultures, once a year we roll out the old Koelschip Doggett for a tryst into spontaneity.

Fermented appropriately to 2.5P and pH4.1, 2026 Street Trash is estery and funky, without phenolics or perceivable acid. A middling interpretation of spon, it still bamboozles me that this is even a thing. Only 4 kegs were made of perhaps the second ever commercially available Brisbane Spon. Miles ahead of the inaugural release, this year’s Street Trash has a doughy/biscuity aroma, with some red apple esters and mild, moreish finish.

And yes yes, leaving this outside the front door overnight means, on the balance of probabilities, the fermentive microorganism is US-05. But seriously, wort on Doggett St, it’s worth a schooie for sure!

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