You likely have a contamination in your equipment somewhere. Try deep cleaning and pasteurize everything you possibly can, replace o-rings and gaskets etc.

Isn't that what we're doing with Trump?

I don't even have to close my eyes to do this

thank mr skeltal

ahh, ok, you said equal amounts of vinegar and whiskey so I was calculating it as being ~1/3rd beer and ~1/3rd whiskey. I'd still recommend just putting your yeast source into hopped wort and letting it ferment.

When I do wild captures, I generally put the potential yeast source into some hopped starter wort and wait to see if it ferments. Here's how I captured yeast from decomposing leaf litter.

What's your reasoning behind your process here? Assuming the beer is 5% abv and your whiskey is 40% then your resulting mixture is going to be like 15% abv, that's a really difficult environment for most yeast, especially wild yeast. I'll be surprised if you get anything from this.

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Interesting. I personally have no interest in making vodka. It sounds more like the reason this turns out well vs turbo wash is due to the lower ABV/not stressing the yeast out as much, vs the tomato paste really doing a lot.

Tomato paste wash? Did you just happen to have some sort of windfall of loads of tomato paste that you had to use up quickly? Why would you do this?