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I've messed around with WLP670 on some saisons a bit but that the extent of my souring experience. This month I'm planning to ramp up a sour pipeline. First I intend to make my first sour brown using roeselare only. My intention is to make a sour brown, leave in a bucket for 6 months, rack to...

Took a weekend trip to Michigan and just had this beer. It was great. Here is a description... http://www.greenbushbrewing.com/beers/distorter.htm So now, I'm trying to put a clone together of course. Any thoughts on this? 5.5 gallon/AG mash 152 13 lb maris otter 1 lb crystal 60L...

I just brewed a saison this weekend with WLP670 american farmhouse and I was contemplating brewing another saison and pitching on my yeast cake in 3 months when I bottle this. Are their any issues in reusing a yeast cake from a brett blended yeast?

I'm a partial masher so high gravity beers are harder for me to brew, but I've been wanting to make something I can add Bourbon and Oak too. I'm looking at doing a porter somewhere around 1.065-1.075. Is that too light for bourbon/oak aging? Will the oak and bourbon overpower? I was looking...

A homebrewing friend of mine has been sampling some of my beers and finding that there is a plastic taste in them. I've been looking into it and it seems the 2 most likely explanations are an infection or due to using tap water. I haven't noticed the issue myself, so for some reason it just...

Working on a partial mash smoked porter, basically adding some rauch to a founders porter recipe I found. Any thoughts/critiques? 5 1/2 gallons 3lb Rauch 1.25lb Chocolate malt 1lb Munich .63lb Carapils .37lb Crystal 120L .25lb Black Patent Mash 154 6lb DME, WLP 001 OG 1063...

I'm on my 5th partial mash brew and I'm looking to do a stout. I have a 4 gallon pot that I figure can handle roughly a 6 lb grain bill. Problem is the recipes I'm looking at all have about 4.5 lbs of specialty grains and I've read that the base grain to specialty grain ratio should stay 1:1. Is...

My first Xmas as a home brewer. Any Xmas beer suggestions? Preferably a partial mash and something that I could brew in late September and have ready by early December. I'd brew something sooner, but I've already got my next 3 brews lined up.