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Does anyone have any 03B they can trade? I didn't take care of mine very well and it got contaminated.

Do you know what the difference between a double IPA and triple IPA is? Double IPAs can taste good.

That's the nice thing about brewing advice online. Whenever someone gives you good advice you don't like, you can usually keep looking and find bad advice you do like.

Does Tired Hands really use CMC pale? I like their beers a lot and hate that malt. In my experience, CMC pale has a weird acrid flavor I've never gotten from any other pale malt.

5 months on sweet cherries? Sounds like you should have bottled it about 4 months ago. Even if it is mold, just rack off the fruit and bottle it.

Ever put a screw in wood and removed and reinserted it a few times?

Very cool! Good like on the Deus clone.

If brettanomyces cleaned it up, that wouldn't give any indication as to the source of te ropiness. Nothing but plating it out will show what the source of the viscosity is. There are any number of bacteria and yeasts that can cause ropiness. Based on the information you provided, I'd say...

Just dump it.

Don't.

I'd say you either didn't ramp the temp up enough or ramp it up soon enough and I'd guess the latter.

That's actually the yeast Upland was having problems with, but I'd imagine that had more to do with the beer than the yeast.

I wouldn't bother with all that from the podcast. I've never had a problem with the cheap blue pack cuvee yeast. Carbonation isn't exactly Upland's biggest problem.

Source? I'm fairly sure that isn't correct. The beer is fermented under pressure, so need to krausen.

My advice is to take those BJCP guidelines, print them out, wad the paper up, and burn it. Biere de Garde isn't a style. Very few of the brewers of Northern France that make the beers that are thought of as BdG make any claim to them being such. Farmhouse Ales is where you want to start. I...