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Correct. They ship within California

Do you have any friends in CA? If so you could order online direct from SARA and ship within CA then have whoever you ship it to slap a new label on and send you you. Bernice is available on their webshop now along with a new saison.

Here is what I have done with good results: pick the cherries when they are ready, bag them up whole without any roasting/cooking (vacuum seal if possible), then freeze them. once the beer is ready thaw them out and rack onto them. Is there some reason you have to add them so soon? I have...

Sounds like acetaldehyde. How much yeast are you pitching and at what temp? How much lag to start fermentation?

this may have happened on some blends, but doing 1/3 of each 1yr/2yr/3yr is definitely not the standard Belgian process for blending gueuze (geuze). Each blend is likely different based on things like residual sugar/acidity/flavors/etc.

Brookhaven here

Probably 80-90% of it is lambic laying on its side, I did remove the bottom few shelves in one to stand up my higher end stouts/barleywine/awa/etc though.

Added a 3rd fridge to the stable

Creature Comforts

I sent you a PM

Creature Comforts has a centrifuge which likely helps their clarity. I don’t think they use wheat either, so maybe drop that next time. Looks good though [emoji481]

I imagine the reason they drop the yeast is because they can easily do that and to harvest it, but doubt impacts the final product much leaving it on another few days during dryhop. That said, If you are able to do a closed/CO2 transfer then I would not hesitate to do that. That’s how I rack...

Why not just dryhop in the primary to avoid more potential oxygen exposure?

What is your gravity? S-04 can work quickly, but hard to really tell by watching airlock activity alone.

I'd swap that pound of Crystal 10 and half pound of Carapils out for about 5-6oz of Crystal 40/45. It might have a little munich in there also. I'd guess Trop has around 2.75-3#/bbl of hops, so I'd say your ~3oz at flameout is good, and dryhop should be around 4.25oz.