Wild Yeast Brewing Co.
Our story
Delicious and nutritious traditionally brewed ginger beer!
Homegrown, locally sourced, handcrafted, reusable or recyclable!
THE BEGINNINGS
How it all started
Way way back in 2016 Robert was visiting his good friends Mic and Isabel in the Galapagos. Mic and Isabel were on their ultimate, "once in a lifetime" (possibly twice if you believe Mic) 3 year surf and sail trip through the Pacific onboard their boat The Ondular. His intrepid sea-legged friends of the ocean had learnt a secret sailors method of creating your own self carbonating ginger beer and soft drinks, via the process of wild ocean yeast fermentation. This method had been passed on discreetly through word of mouth by generations and generations of fair weathered sailors sunburnt lips. The Sailors Code some might say! The Galapagos was incredibly beautiful but incredibly hot, located right on the Equator and this secret sailors made beverage was a refreshing escape from the persistent and repressing heat.
Australian east coast style
Practice and R&D
Robert took the idea back to Australia and started tinkering with the method. He tried to create an Australian east coast style offering of wild yeast fermented, self carbonated drinks. Practice almost made perfection but by 2018, The Ondular had made its way to a remote and tropical atoll in northern Tahiti and it was decided another trip was required for further R&D. In between coconut picking, lobster diving and surfing perfect remote reef passages with his friends, some intense research and development followed for the ultimate wild fermented ginger beer recipe. Whilst the surf was incredible and the fresh lobsters divine in the paradisical tropical waters, down the hatch where the humidity brewed and the wild yeasts flowed the ultimate code was cracked for wild fermented drinks.
LAUNCHED and RELEASED
Wild Yeast Brewing Co.
Back in Australia, sunburnt but stoked by the memories, a further 2 years of R&D followed to get it just right, more brewing, swilling and thinking. And then finally in 2020, Wild Yeast Brewing Co. was finally created and released into the world!