Recent content by maskednegator

You can absolutely get a beer that's as sour as a "legit" sour beer if you use a sour mash, and regular sacch can ferment it out, it will just lag a bit. You won't get a traditional funky beer, you'll get whatever character you'd normally get from your yeast, plus a clean lactic sourness. The...

Hopshots need to be boiled to give bitterness, they are not pre-isomerized.

I'd get like 1.130 on my system. Regardless, I'd be shocked if you could dry this out more than 1.010. Keep us posted!

I get cherries from brett C, not pineapple.

Comparing the oxygen permeability of a wooden barrel to the oxygen permeability of a carboy covered with aluminum foil is ludicrous.

Whatever bugs that would be "in the air" from sour beer are already "in the air" from the grains you're bringing into your condo. Those things are covered in brett and lactic acid producing bacteria.

I have a very similar beer in a carboy right now. It was "sour worted" then got a huge pitch of brett C. Gravity samples are tasting RAD, I reccommend you go for it.

I really dig this method: http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2010/07/sour-old-ale-quick-oud-bruin.html It's great when you want a cleanly lactic beer, and it's even better when used with brett as the only fermenting organism.

Do what you want, but that is horrible, terrible, very bad advice. Please check the gravity at bottling and report what you find.

I direct you to post #2 in this thread, wherein I tell you that I have had a 1.080 beer drop from 1.016 to 1.006 over the course of the past year. 1.016 is nowhere near done. Invoking an argument from authority fallacy won't change this. Also - stop tasting it biweekly, the taste is changing...

That's correct. Mold is chilling on the surface, but a pellicle is just a symptom of some other microorganism living in the beer - it's not the actual microorganism.

Mold.

You can't siphon beer out from under a pellicle the way you can with mold. This is not to say that you are doing the wrong thing, it's just something to keep in mind.

Just put a piece of wood under the oil pan and use a floor jack, the way that everyone including your dealer does.

You mash hop a berliner because you pull decoctions. Other uses don't do anything.