Day 2 of beer making involved looking at the wild yeast we gathered from the surface of figs and grapes in the garden under the microscope, making the mash and sbarging the wort.

Slide with wild yeast

Sarah examining the skin of the fig with a microscope that uses light from the sun to light the slide.

Estevan sets up a small camera to view inside the microscope

Rigging the reflectors from the solar oven to heat the wort

Estevan and Eric sbarging the wort, a process that is done continually until the wort is no longer cloudy.