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I have never been a big fan of sours and as of now I taste nothing in the beer. My thought process for adding cherries was that the flavor would be nice, the fruit would help balance the sourness, and the added sugar would drive the ABV high enough to inhibit substantial "souring" as it ages...

I made a porter I usually make that ages on cocoa nibs, coffee, and dark oak that have been soaked in black rum. This time, it is clearly contaminated with lactobacillus. I cannot decide if I should just scrap it and move on or throw a bunch of cherries in there and age it for a year. Has...

Update. After I racked to secondary, the beer tasted a little bland. So I ended up dry hopping with 1.5 oz Nelson, 1.5 oz Smaragd, 0.5 oz Pacific Jade for 5 days. Its been in the bottle two weeks but already tastes great. Smooth bitterness, nice peachy, white wine flavor. Definitely a...

I made this two days ago. Out of supply/necessity, the grain got changed to 3 lbs pilsner dme 3 lbs pilsner malt 1 lb belgian cara 8 0.25 lb belgian biscuit I also used wlp530 because it was cheaper. Other than that, the hops stayed the same, hit all the numbers perfectly. Cooled to 60...

Never posted, please be kind. I've always wanted to make a Belgian IPA. Nothing about this is particularly Belgian except the yeast and candi sugar, but i already have the hops and I want something fruity, funky, bright, and boozy. Here's the recipe. Its not 5 gal because I like just having...