Recent content by lucuella

Smell the hops. If they smell fresh use them, if they smell like a sauna bath or like onion, cheese, or garlic don't use them unless you are going to brew a beer with brettanomyces. Just keep in mind that hops are going to be impacted by time, storage conditions, and even packaging conditions...

I've been complaining about kveik recently. I have a toxic relationship with it :) On one hand it provides very reliable results when it's combined with lacto to produce fast sours, but when I ferment clean beers I notice that it not only eats the hop but also the malt flavors. I've done...