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my CDA... it's the only beer i make continuously... just ran out, time to brew.

any more reviews?

i like this - might have to steal an idea or two from this thread... quick, to beer smith!

it's gone through a bunch of changes, but it started life as a lacto culture and commercial pedio to sour a blonde belgian i made before the lambic - that beer got fermented with brett-c and sacc - i saved that yeast. that hot mess went into the lamibc, which had other yeasts added to it (i did...

i do a bunch of sours and they're all worth it, except for the lambic - the lambic was standard mash (pretty newbie at sours at that point so no turbid) and was knocked up with lacto, brett-b, brett-c, sac and pedio... (a home yeast that has turned out some pretty fun and funky sours) was...

i'm not sure mine was... brewed mine on 1/23/11 and just bottled half of it yesterday, almost two years to the day. it is off the chart sour (too sour), not as dry as i thought it would be but it has a little acetic quality to it which i'm not a huge fan of... i dropped the other half on...

spiced imperial stout; aroma: heavy spice and you can smell huge quantities of star anise and warm alcohol... i sipped this bad boy watching a movie late at night with the kids and the aroma said "take your time" appearance: poured very aggressively and in the dim light of the kitchen but it...

last few days i had a couple different ones; strong saffron saison; aroma: smells like blossoming farmland - sweet and spicy with some earthiness appearance: slightly hazy straw with orange tints - i didn't really let this sit in the fridge very long (just a few days) but i imagine it would...

just as an update i'll double check, but it looks like i received everything - good work people... last one i had was the gruit; aroma: piney, but not hoppy piney - like pine piney, smells warm. appearance: slightly hazy dark amber... i poured it aggressively and the head built up to about...

the quad i had was perfectly carb'd and fan-freaking-tastic, thank you! had the juniper rye bock yesterday - not really sure what to say... i'm always impressed by beers from homebrewers that surpass commercial varieties. fantastic aroma, balance, clarity and taste - absolutely loved it. the...

- brew more. - deplete my hop stockpile - use my homegrown hops - find local malt and make a 100% local beer - use my house yeast twice. - use my wild (now domesticated) yeast twice. - make an IPA out of my wild yeast. - replenish the sour patch - bottle my lambic (been two years) - bottle my...

i was hoping to get over 70% efficiency but it just didn't happen :( still a tad over style in terms of ABV at 5.2% - i'll actually make this beer again anytime of year - doesn't really scream christmas but if you let it chill for a couple of weeks, all the haze goes away and it gets even...

i received bottles with an "I" on them... which one is this? also got a package with BD on it - i'm assuming that's the dubbel?

i'll be saving one of each as well... thanks for the review dgez... not very christmas-y for sure, but the recipe didn't seem to be... i increased the abv and body a bit and tried to make it a bit darker than the original recipe intended.

agree... site, smell, taste, feel - maybe not so much sound. it's a sensory thing. and obviously who doesn't like head? (apologies to the ladies in the crowd)