It wasn't a great fridge to begin with but it was coming together nicely. It had only cost me $45 but it was incredibly loud. I had gutted it down so that I could fit three corny kegs inside but the other day instead of just being super loud it crapped out on me and was pumping hot air all over my precious beer and kombucha mothers. So I've dispersed the contents into the other fridges in the house for the time being.
The good news is I have three brews going. A 1554 clone from Zymurgy that I tweaked a little by adding some rye into it and more hops. I also have an original recipe for a dark cherry beer with brettanomyces bruxellensis that was added to the secondary. I basically started with a 5 gallon sweet beer recipe with a small amount of hops and added in a gallon of cherry juice that was fermented with the brett b. The guy at the brew store gave me the vial of yeast for free 'cause it expired 10 days earlier. I also have a Breakfast Stout in the primary that was brewed with a pound of lactose. I'll add in coffee into the secondary and perhaps some molasses. You can see the pellicle from the brett growing on the top of the beer in the carboy in the back.
I also have a batch of sauerkraut with lots of garlic and fennel seeds going and some mushrooms marinating. For the mushrooms I started with vinegar that I had soaked dried chilies and oregano in. Then I strained it and mixed about equal parts water with a little salt, sugar, peppercorns, olive oil and thyme.
I guess I started this blog because it can be hard to find free information on brewing brettanomyces beers or any kind of helpful information on making kombucha or other fermented tasty things. There are some resources I found helpful, and I plan on posting them here. So I guess I hope my projects might shed some light on things that are not always easy to find. I'll post the recipes that I've used with more in depth notes after they are done. 