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I was in San Diego for work last week and I picked up a bottle of Fantome Saison (among others) to drink. I cracked it open and poured a glass. It had the viscosity of a slightly watery olive oil. I had some second thoughts, but I wasn't about to throw out a $15 bottle of beer. So I did what I...

Hi all, Just had my first run in with the notorious 'vomit' flavor in one of my sours. Admittedly I screwed up by bottling it a bit prematurely. It's not awful, the flavor's just a background note. But it's prevalent enough that I'm not going to go reaching for a bottle any time soon. So...

Howdy, I'm making a DIPA soon and I thought this would make a nice hop combo...any thoughts? Suggestions? I thought they would play nicely. I'll bitter with nugget or warrior. Very light grain bill...2 Row, some sugar, a little bit of C-40, and a little bit of Carapils. Any advice?

Brewed a DIPA this morning. Missed my target OG by a wide margin. It was supposed to be 1.070, I hit 1.060. Haven't figured out why...but I'll do that later. In the meantime, I have a question. If it were your beer, would you leave it alone and drink a 6.6% ABV double IPA? Or would you add...

I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old and lately they're both driving me to the brink. I'm channelling my fury into brewing a nice fruity, floral saison that will instill calm... The recipe is my standard: 10 lb Pilsner malt 1 lb Vienna 1 lb flaked wheat 2 oz Styrian Goldings @ 60 min 1...

So I made a wild starter back in March, stepped it up in early April, fridged it until yesterday. Didn't smell too bad! Like very, very overripe bananas with a little phenolic spiciness in there. I didn't taste it. So, yesterday afternoon I made a 7.5 gal batch of lambic. 1.048 OG, it's so...

Anyone had one of these yet? I had one the other day and it is fantastic. I usually don't go for spruce beer, but this one's got a little bit of funk and a little tartness from the gose and man...it really surprised me. If you see one, don't hesitate.

When you mash and sparge with rice hulls do you perfer to soak and rinse them or do you just chuck them in? Any advantages to doing it either way? I ask because I'm getting ready to brew a 100% huskless all grain beer. I've actually never had to use rice hulls before, so I thought I would get...

Hi all, I've been brewing for about 10 years or so. I make some fantastic beers and some decent beers. Some garbage too, once in a while. I've never really worried about my water. I've always followed the old mantra "If it's good to drink, it's good to brew with." This approach has always...

Sampled it on Christmas and it tastes amazing, bracingly sour...in a good way. Looks like the gravity hasn't moved since 2/2013. I've been told not to bottle at 1.010 or higher, but I think it's done. I'm leaning towards bottling it this weekend. What do you all think?

You've got a screwed up craft beer pricing market. I get Pliny for $4.99 a bottle, and lining the shelves around it are mediocre bombers of beer that cost significantly more. I started noticing that $7.99 is looking more and more like the average price for a 22 oz IPA. Not even a premium IPA...

I brewed up a batch of American Wheat a month ago (or so). It was just 6 row, white wheat, and a little bit of flaked wheat. Fermented with Wyeast 1010. Obviously super light in color. Probably 2 or 3 SRM. I bottled most of it in 12 oz bottles, but I was short on caps, so I filled up about 6...

Hey everyone, just thought I would put this here for people who may not have heard yet. Starting Monday 6/10, if you're an Xbox Live Gold member, you can download 2 free games a month from now until December. You don't get to pick the game, and you have to download it in the time frame that it's...

I'll just say it up front: I know nothing about refrigerator/freezer technology, so any help is greatly appreciated. I bought a chest freezer off of craigslist a year and a half ago. It's biiiig. I haven't measured, but it's probably bigger than 20 cubic ft. It'll hold ten 5 gallon carboys at...

Hi everyone, Brewed a batch this morning. Here's the recipe: 9.5 lb Golden Promise 12 oz Blackprinz 12 oz flaked oats 8 oz Aromatic 8 oz Crystal 40 4 oz Special B 1 oz Challenger @ 60 min .5 oz EKG @ 5 min Essentially I made a wussy stout. Very dark, but very mild with a bit of sweetness...

I bought 10 organic rhizomes this year. Planted them about 3-4 weeks ago. 8 of them came up and are growing nicely. Here's the problem: Due to a few unforeseen (big) expenses, I have to wait to build a structure for them, maybe another month or two. A couple of the sprouts are already a foot...

I was talking to someone the other day about brewing and the subject turned to chlorine/chloramine in our municipal water supply. I mentioned that I generally just crush up half a campden tab into my strike and sparge water and forget about it. He was shocked and went on to tell me that brewers...

I went all out and bought a new rig recently. 10 gal cooler mash tun and a converted keggle. First batch was a saison, I hit 60% efficiency. No big deal. I was a BIAB brewer and that was my standard. I figured I would have to run a few batches through before dialing in my process. So for my...

I bottled everything I possibly could...but the time has come. I'm moving this weekend and I have 5 sours to relocate. Holy jeez I am not happy about it. I'm **** scared of losing them to oxidation. Anyways, Just thought I'd rant about it for a second. I bought a can of wine preserver to...

Sac Beer week starts today. Gotta love it. I bought a bottle of Cantillon Mamouche and and bottle of Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien Grand Cru at lunch today. I didn't drink them. I had to go back to work. But still...I'm excited.