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I just broke my hydrometer. Cleaning up the brewery and wasn't paying attention too much. Turned around and heard the glass shattering on the concrete floor behind me. I had knocked it from its perch in the drying rack. As I picked up the pieces, I realized that this is the last piece of...

A year ago this week I brewed a barleywine, using Wyeast 9097 Old Ale Blend. The OG was 1.122 (yeah, I was going for glory here). I wanted a very full bodied mouthfeel so I chose to mash at at 156. Yes, this was much too high, leaving way too many unfermentables. After 2-3 weeks, it had only...

Last summer I brewed two beers, one with Lambic Blend, the other with Roselare, about three weeks apart. They're now about 7 months old and tonight was the first sampling. The Roselare was INCREDIBLE while the Lambic Blend was just so so, with depressingly little sourness for that long in the...

I made 5 gal of a 1.050 beer using Wyeast's 3787 Trappist High Gravity. It turned out great (I love this strain) but I was mostly making it as a big yeast starter for a barley wine I want to make. Last weekend, I racked off all but about a half inch of the beer above the yeast cake, intending...

Eight days ago, I pitched a smack pack of Wyeast 3278 Lambic Blend into a 1.045 gravity version of Northern Brewer's Northern Lambic Gran Cru kit. My concern is that it's still sending a bubble through the airlock every ten seconds, implying that it's still got sugar to chew on. My expectation...