Recent content by Jamesmedson

I’ve been trying to bottle my hoppy IPAs and they always seem to lose their strong pungent hoppiness within a week or two. Does anyone have any tips to maximize hoppy beer shelf life? Specifically I’m trying for New England style IPAs. I was thinking about purging bottles with CO2 to minimize...

I pitched some of my girlfriends home made sour dough starter into 1 gallon of second running from my rye ipa (1.030 after hour of boil, with minimal hops). I bottled it the other day and it is smelling quite sour. My questions is, is it OK to drink using this wild yeast and bacteria. She...