Wild Yeast

[MightyCow9]

I am wanting to grab some wild yeast and do some brewing with it. I picked up some third runnings from my last batch and have it sitting outside with cheese cloth over it. It is a similar method to how my wife makes her sourdough bread. I have read that the beer yeast kicks in about 2 weeks into this process. Is that right?

Also, I was planning on making a few short batches because my readings say that the first couple of batches take a little bit for the wild yeast to fully come into its own.

[mwedge]

Really depends on the yeast "strains". some of the wild yeasts that you find in lambics take 18 months to 24 months to really do their thing.

I have inadvertently made a beer with wild yeast. I had a bad seal on a keg and it got infected. It pissed me off and I just resealed the keg and put it off to the side and forgot about it. About a year later I cleaned out the keg and it had some mold growing on the seal so I started dumping the beer and just for grins I tasted it and it was awesome. Then I was really pissed as it was almost all down the drain.