Pfliegler Lab at University of Debrecen
pflieglerlab.bsky.social
Pfliegler Lab at University of Debrecen
@pflieglerlab.bsky.social
Saccharomyces, yeasts, mycobiome, phylogenomics
A photo I have been planning to make for a long time, at the Natural History Museum of London :) #Darwin
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
And today two half-pints of cask ale at the "infamous" Ten Bells :)
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Now a pint of red in The Prince Edward :)
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So far surprisingly different from bottled beer and very fresh and zesty!
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My first ever English cask ale in London. We are visiting The Old Swan after Churchill Arms! Tasting an Old Golden Hen and an Abbot Ale!
October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Recently I revived my experimental sourdough culture from the -80C freezer and started refreshing it every day. The khachapuri made with it tonight looks quite good:) #yeast
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Congratulations to @balintnemeth.bsky.social on his talk on thousands and thousands of #Saccharomyces genomes!
September 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We arrived in Szeged for the annual miniconference of the Hungarian Genetics Society! My PhD student @balintnemeth.bsky.social will present about the #Saccharomyces Compendium and I have a poster about integrating #yeast research into BSc lab classes at the University of Debrecen :)
September 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is going to be a very nice hop harvest:)
September 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Finishing up two manuscripts while brewing a gruit with smoked malts and some fresh hops. Most of the hops I will harvest a few days later :)
August 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Finally, our new -80°C freezer arrived! This is our #yeast lab now, two small rooms for my research group (one half-time and one full-time PhD-student, @balintnemeth.bsky.social, many BSc and MSc-students, and me). Looking forward to start the new semester with them very soon!
August 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Made a nice focaccia with my #yeast experimentally evolving in wheat sourdough:)
August 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
A fantastic natural red from Tenerife, Bodegas La Araucaria 2020 Listán negro, a typical local grape variety. I asked and the winery doesn't use yeast cultures and relies on naturally occuring #yeast
July 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@larsga.bsky.social we will know more about them soon! :)
July 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Two additional on local fermented drinks: the Canary Islands has centuries-old sugarcane distilleries and local rum and rum-based honey liquor, ronmiel, are popular. And the most commonly found lager, Dorada, is also brewed locally, it is a typical Spanish pale lager.
July 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
And the last DO in Tenerife, Ycoden-Daute-Isora. Mostly white wines here and some Listán Negro, often barrel-aged. It was in fact very complicated to buy a bottle from here, they are not found in shops and even rare in small shops of Icod de los Vinos. This one is full-bodied and characteristic.
July 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“…but, i’faith you have drunk too much canaries, and that’s a marvelous searching wine, and it perfumes the blood ere one can say: what’s this?” A thread on Canary wines wouldn't be complete without Malvazía Aromática, once highly sought-after in Britain, liked by Shakespare, Walter Scott or Byron!
July 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
And now the famous Orotava Valley DO, wine has been made here since the 15th century. We visited the local Bodega La Araucaria and had a great chat and tasting with the owners. Here, a complex, big red and a funky, low-ABV pét-nat that definetly has #Brettanomyces. Wonderful and unique!
July 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Valle de Güímar is a young and charactersitic DO on Tenerife, the terrain and climate here is wild and maybe the most volcanic, if that means anything on Tenerife:) In shops, only one bottle is found readily, this fruity and fresh, really tropical white with 11 ABV, certainly worth buying!
July 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Back to Tenerife: Abona is a DO in the Southern part of the island, with a large variability in grapes and wines. Like the other islands here, the region escaped from the phylloxera outbreak, a quite unique situation! Wines in Abona are mostly fresh, young, like this Apaga y Vámonos red.
July 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
La Gomera is also home to a small artisanal brewery, Layla. Bought two bottles. The one named Lustrales is fantastic, bottle-refermented, fermented with local palm syrup. Clearly Brettanomyces-derived funkyness. Think Orval with caramel notes. Wow.
July 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
We ended up buying two more bottles from La Gomera, it was a bit like treasure-hunting! #wine
July 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#wine from La Gomera is very hard to find elsewhere but on the island itself. As the other Canary Islands, except for Tenerife, the whole island is a single DO. The majority of vines here is of the Forastera Gomera variety that differs a lot from Italian forastera...
July 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Tenerife has an old and traditional wine culture with great local grape varieties and wineries also open for current consumer demands. Curiously, only some 4 genomes of #Saccharomyces yeasts have ever been published from Macaronesia, all from Azores. Hopefully we can change that soon in a collab!
July 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Vacation on the beautiful Tenerife with a little #Fungi themed visit to Luis Quijada at the Universidad de La Laguna! It was great to finally meet in-person!
July 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM