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I am looking for descriptions of the esters and phenols produced by Brettanomyces, and the flavors associated with those compounds. I browsed through the Brettanomyces Project website but did not find what I'm looking for. Chad's BP focusses more on pure culture fermentation than mixed...

I couldn't find a thread related to this years SCHF in Ojai, CA and wanted to see who's going, what you're bringing, and where we can find your beer! I'm bringing a bunch of stuff: Rye IPA, Pale Wheat, Rye Saison, Wild Pale Ale, and 4 Golden Ales, each fermented with a different...

Preface: I started writing this post this morning before I pitched yeast and over the course of the day, I filled it out with my thoughts and results of pitching yeast. I plan to update it with the results of this fermentation and ensuing tasting, and perhaps future fermentations with...

I ran into the description of "mashing" on Wikipedia. There is one phrase that I think is critically wrong. "and decoction mashing, in which a proportion of the grains are boiled and then returned to the mash, raising the temperature." Its my understanding that boiling the grains is not good...

I don't want to make Cider. I want to make beer. A couple weeks ago, I went to visit my parents. Their apple tree was flush with fruit and there was tons of ripe fruit on the ground. I picked some and grabbed some of the fallen apples. When I got home, I cleaned, cored, and sliced them into...

My cousin just returned from Bali. She brought me these vanilla beans. They are soft and moist. They smell sensational. I have an imperial stout that is aging right now. It has 10% + abv off the top of my head, lots of chocolate malt, big body. I want to add the beans, but I am unsure of how...

So I've used both brewpal over the last year or so and I like a lot of the features in both of these apps. I just got beeralchemy and I'm starting to prefer it for its appearance, all the different calculators it has, and also because I can do multiple batches based on a single recipe. (the...

So I bought a kegging system, finally, and I'm getting ready to keg my first two ales this weekend. I've read as many kegging threads as possible and learned that the beer lines should be long and cold and that set and forget will result in consistently carbed beer. Now, my kegging system was...

I've done a couple ~1.050 beers with 10gallon batches and split in two fermenters. I have used different yeasts as an experiment. For example, I did a pale ale that I fermented with wlp san Francisco lager and us-05. I have a Belgian pale ale that is half wlp568 and half wlp 500. (when I say...

First post. Hello, hop head & malt bomber here... now here's my post: I want a session ipa with massive massive massive hop flavor and aroma (did I mention I want massive hop flavor and massive hop aroma). I've seen a couple threads about the impacts of short boils, but I'm not convinced...