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Hello all! I wanted to throw my blog out there and try to recruit some new viewership. I tend to focus strongly on sour and mixed fermentations, and playing with new and interesting ingredients. I'm working on isolating new strains of Brettanomyces from Lambic bottles, and fermenting out to...

One year ago at 20 years old (canadian here) on 12/12/12 I brewed a 12% abv barleywine with so much grain that it permanently warped my cooler mash tun from the weight. Today, 12 months later at 12:12 I cracked the first bottle and I am supremely pleased! This one is going to competitions in the...

By the mother of greatest sorrows, I've had a string of bad luck. I think I've narrowed it down to the oxygen stone not being boiled but simply soaked in iodophor. I'm really starting to get unimpressed about this. At least one of them I pitched a ton of dregs and am just going to let it...

Infected batch of irish red, 20 litres of malt vinegar. :( Here's to a batch of fallen comrades, where they have fallen many more will take their place. Glasses to glasses, suds to suds. Amen.

I don't have the space to set up a fermentation control cabinet, so I've been relying on swamp cooling to ferment cooler kolsch's in the summer. Could I pitch on a yeast cake to overpitch to make a cleaner beer to compensate for lack of ferm temp control?

I made a bastardized bitter, Too much amber, single hopped with willamette 8# 2-row 2# Amber malt 1# crystal 60l 0.5# carapils 1 oz Willamette - FWH 1oz Willamette - 30 1 oz willamette - 15 1 oz willamette - FO 2 oz Willamette - Dry hop. It sat in the fermenter for a month, I...

I've been looking into making a temp controlled freezer or something for fermentation, and What's been bugging me is wondering how you would ferment different beers with different yeasts with different ideal fermentation temperatures. Do you usually keep all ales fermenting at the same...

I started this hobby after I got into mycology so I already have the equipment (autoclave, flowhood) to do agar work. I'm about to get a microscope too so I know that will help. My question is, does anyone know any good resources for yeast/bacteria identification? I would love to be able...