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Been a while since I've updated this and I'm pretty sure I missed a few. +10 gallons Flemish Red +5 gallons APA w/Galaxy, El Dorado, Pacific Jade +5 gallons APA w/Centennial, Simcoe, Nelson Sauvin +5 gallons Saison = 32154

This came up on the East Coast Yeast facebook page a while back and, if I remember correctly, Al's recommendation was to split the yeast between two starters, one that you would aerate and the other not. The idea being that you give all the various bugs a friendly environment to grow in...

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I just did this for the first time and it's my favorite hoppy beer I've ever brewed. Juicy is the best possible word to describe it. Highly recommended.

+10 gallons Sour Saison =25,446

+5 apa =25,033

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+10 gallons Flanders Red = 24,122.5

+10 gallons Flanders Red = 23066.5

Have you considered any of the bug blends from white labs or wyeast? I've had beers brewed with both Roselare and the Whitelabs Sour Blend that were outstanding.

Yeah, I can't imagine anything surviving a 15 minute boil. Hell, the last few Berliners I've brewed I haven't boiled at all. No gushers, no bottle bombs.

I think you me eisen-sauer haha

They were pretty well frozen. Kind of like a beer slushy. By some miracle the 1 gallon glass jug that the Sour Blonde was in didn't break and the 'Merica clone was in a bucket. I'm assuming I probably pulled a decent amount of oxygen into both of them, so I'm planning on bottling the blonde and...

Title pretty much says it all. Last Thursday I pulled a batch out of my fermentation chamber to bottle and left the probe attached to the carboy, so my stc-1000 kept the freezer on all night. I made a few mistakes here, the first of which is that I shouldn't have been bottling so late at...