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I think a lot of this depends on your proximity to good beer in general. Anyone brewing in N America is overly spoiled for choice. You (in general) have local craft breweries within driving distance (don't drink and drive please). You have grocery stores stocking at least 10 drinkable...

So, I did decide to try the starter for my Cuvée René dregs. I boiled up some light DME in around 300ml (~1 cup) of water to a SG of 1.035 and poured that into the bottle. I'll see what happens there and keep building it up if the results are good. On my 1 gal starter, I've definitely gotten...

I considered doing the in-bottle starter but laziness and deciding to open a beer are generally on the same team :) The 1 gal starter did begin to show signs of activity after 2 days. There is a creamy looking, almost lacy foam developing on the surface. I gather this is lacto activity...

They were 37.5 ml bottles with about 2in left in each. I tried to get as much sediment into suspension as possible. I'm going to let it roll. I learned that it clean beer brewing! And about learning from Almighty: that's why I'm here! Thanks again guys. So glad to see this thread alive!

Thanks for the replies Almighty and badlee. In terms of stability, I was referring to the preservative property of hops. If acidity takes over this role, then you've calmed my fears. As for flavor, I expect to get the sour fruitiness as the baseline and play with other aromas as the solera...

I started my first 1 gal sour yesterday. I made a 5 gal Weissbier (60% Wheat malt, 30% Pale malt, 8% Munich, 2% Acidulated) and pulled off 1 gal after 15 minutes of the boil. I didn't add any hops to this gallon, chilled it and pitched the dregs of three gueuzes (Oude Beersel, Mariage Parfait...

Thanks everyone! @AkTom: what I wouldn't do to be able to drive any distance to an actual store to buy my supplies! And a 2.5 hour drive in Romania means going about 60 miles! As it is, I buy in as much bulk as I can; shipping usually turns out to be ~20% of the cost, which is a bummer...

Hi All I've been brewing for a little over a year now (and at the same time stalking these forums). Before I began, I did about 5-6 months of research: Papazian, Palmer, Zainasheff, a very very very bad ebook I bought off amazon, BrewingTV videos (the original series), the Science of...

Here's my 2 cents: Is this overkill? Yes! You should totally do it! Are the flavors going to be muddled? It looks that way. 6 different types of hops sounds like an amazing experiment, but there are too many variables going in the pot to really know what is contributing most to the final...