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I believe most sour brewers don't bother racking to secondary. Brett ends up feeding on dead sacc yeast, so there's no real reason to disturb it.

Simcoe and/or Chinook, I think.

Whoa, that's an obscure one. I'm not finding much info on Meridian hops, the only page with a description I see is this IPA: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/equinox-meridian-ipa/131203/ Do you have any other resources you could point me toward? Thanks!

Updated the Guide with Legacy, El Dorado and Comet hops: http://www.bear-flavored.com/2011/12/bear-flavoreds-ultimate-guide-to-hop.html?utm_source=BP_recent

Sounds very interesting, curious how it comes out. Can't believe I've never considered using kiwis in something before. Seems like it would make an interesting sour beer too, hmm...

Not sure that this would work for everyone, but I discovered my tap water from the kitchen sink, at its hottest, is 115 degrees. Perfect for a sour mash. I only did a small sour mash, but I topped off a small carboy to limit oxygen exposure, covered it with plastic, set the carboy in my...

Hmm. All my beers so far have had at least some extract in them, and it's the only time I've had this issue. Every other beer I've done has finished out pretty much exactly where Beer Smith suggested it would. I'm not so worried about the fact that it tastes sweet, I'd just like to...

I'm working on a Galaxy single-hop IPA that was supposed to finish out very dry... and has become stuck at very sweet instead. Here's the grain bill. This is a mostly-grain partial mash — I'm in the process of going all grain but I still have some DME to use up. 29.9 % extra light DME...

Jolly Pumpkin beers can be found for around 11 - 12 dollars for a 750 ml bottle, which is extremely reasonable in my opinion. They usually have a sticker on the back saying when that batch was bottled; look for something that was bottled around a year ago (or older if possible) as it'll be much...

Well, my situation is a little better than having to do that. My girlfriend lives about an hour upstate, which isn't bad. She also drives into the city regularly, so I can move stuff well before my actual moving day... meaning that I don't have to do all of that strapping into a container in a...

Sorry to make yet another of these moving threads, but I'm running through too many ideas in my own head and need some advice. Here's my situation. I'm currently living in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn. My roommate just got a job across the country, so we're both moving out at the end of...

Do you have enough Rakau to do a single hop IPA? Personally, that's what I like to do with new hops to really get a feel for them, especially when they sound as unique and delicious as Rakau. (Peach and passionfruit is what I've heard). I have 5 ounces of Rakau in my freezer right now and that's...

If I ever own a highly profitable brewery, I'll fund you.

Were these sour mashes (where you boiled afterward to kill the lacto) or did you pitch pure lacto for a few days and then pitch a regular strain on top of that and let it ferment out?

Recently I've been growing curious about the history of yeast. Everything I've read about the history of beer usually focuses on the societal aspect of it, but I'd like to know how regional variations of yeast developed. How did this happen in the centuries before people even understood what...

I've thought about this too, after reading Born to Run. [Fantastic book.] Maybe something with corn... why not? Be curious to hear if anyone has tried something like this and what happened with it.

So why don't you have worry about bottle-bombs when you do this — does lacto never produce CO2, just acid? Making the Brett the major difference (and bottle-bomb causer) between this and other sours?

Added Strisselspalt. Also updated the substituions for Simcoe and Sticklebract, but I'll be working on those more when I can do some more research.

Unfortunately, many of these I have not had first-hand experience with — and I do plan on adding more detailed personalized information whenever I can. (I will be doing lots and lots of single-hop IPAs in my brewing career.) So a lot of the information is based on my research online. Like I...

I found Serebrianka and Sonnet Goldings on Hops Direct and added those to the list. Serebrianka is the first Russian hops I've seen, which is pretty cool.