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So I had a failed sour blonde. I decided 3 weeks after pitching lacto to scrap the experiment and add blueberries and make a slightly tart blueberry beer. So what do you think about making bottling day a brew day as well and adding my wort on top of my lacto infested dregs/blueberries. Also have...

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Mash temps haha. Most of us look up a strike temp online put the grain and and move to a cooler for 60 min and don't touch it. Not rocket science! Extract is a nice way to be more exact and take steps out of the process. Still is brewing and to me makes better beer more consistently.

I'm actually quite pleased with the mistake. My gravity is already down to 1.005 meaning I'm already sitting at 3.5% abv. And the low alcohol level means that those little buggies have a much better environment to create a great beer! I was just wondering I guess is if I could increase the abv...

As far as unwanted flavors I was just referring to a young unconditioned sour beer. And my ibus are right around 10 with 1 oz of 2% AA hops

Hey so I am doing a sour blonde, I was aiming for an OG of 1.046 and only hit a 1.032, I'm thinking because I didn't crush my grains twice for the BIAB method. I am going to have it in the secondary for 16 months with a Roselare blend. I was thinking I could add another lb of Dme with boiling...