Recent content by ribsman

Keep in mind that the origin of lagering came from storing the beer in man made caves. At the Urquell brewery, the daddy rabbit of Pilsners, they fermented at cool cavern temperatures (55 or so) and then barreled and stored the beer just down the hall in the exact same cavern until fairly...

I would agree that racking too early is probably the cause here. The rule of racking to secondary at the 2-3 week point was gospel before we had two week old, super cultured yeast. These days, with super healthy yeast in well aerated wort, you can leave the yeast cake for 4-5 weeks before...

I honestly haven't tried this yet, but I intend to. There is a Lambic kit on Northern Brewer that is available in an extract kit called Dawson's Kriek. It sounds pretty good from the reviews. Alternatively, I did come come across a recipe here on HBT by AMANDAK that is a sour made from DME...