![]() ![]() Most farmhouse brewers have started buying their yeast, but some kveik cultures have been passed down from generations and inherited by modern farmhouse brewers in Norway who still use this yeast today and brew with traditional farmhouse methods. Kveik yeast are extremely diverse genetically, presenting characteristics that are not typical in other brewing yeasts. The term "landrace yeast" has been proposed to refer to kveik as well as other non-kveik farmhouse yeast cultures (for example, Simonaitis). ![]() The word "kveik" is specifically used in the western part of Norway for family-owned, non-purified yeast, while other words such as "gjester" are used by central Norwegians, "gong" is used by locals in eastern Norway, "family yeast" is used by some Lithuanian brewers, and "hemjäst" is used by locals in Gotland. The term "kveik" does not refer to a style of beer, but only the yeast used in traditional Norwegian farmhouse brewing (Garshol has encouraged brewers brewing non-farmhouse styles with kveik to call them "X Style Beer Brewed with Kveik" or something similar see Terminology for more information on suggested approaches to naming classic styles fermented with kveik ). The words "kveiken", "kveika", and "kveikja" are the dialectic definite articles for the word "kveik", which all translate to English as "the kveik". Google Translate (click the "Listen" button).Norwegian farmhouse brewer, Kjetil Dale, pronounces it at 13:10.Farmhouse brewer Jørund Geving gives an example of the "quake" sounding pronounciation (~30 minutes in).Geithung demonstrates two pronunciations depending on the region of Norway.Geithung, pronounces it at around 5 mins in this YouTube Video. Norwegian farmhouse brewer, Terge Raftevold, pronounces it in this YouTube video at around 1:45.Lars Marius Garshol pronounces it at around 2 minutes into episode two of the MTF podcast.Lars Marius Garshol pronounces it three times and explains that there is no 'w' sound (~1:10:30 mins in).Norwegian Andreas Misund Berntsen pronounces it for the wiki.Sounds close to "kvike" to English speakers.
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