Recent content by dlampen45

Round 2 of a solera project (had to abandon the first because of work) I just made a starter for a couple batches im going to brew tomorrow and made a "double" batch to start growing up some bottle dregs with 1/2 of it. I put 8 oz of the starter ~1.03 wort into a growler and tossed an airlock...

Gotcha. Ive got plenty of 1/2 gal growlers laying around i might just sacrifice one of those and fit an airlock to it. After a 6 month or so hiatus im planning on brewing a few things in the coming days and wanted to start this over again so ill just grab some second/third runnings and make the...

Just took a good look at it. Im not sure I can tell the difference between good "things growing in it" and bad so I just tossed it. Smells delicious though but a couple dregs of sour stuff isn't worth getting sick over to me. Time to start over. Any advice on where to keep it? I researched it in...

Exactly what i was thinking, I'm just glad i didn't dump a whole bunch of sour dregs in it that I'd be wasting. FWIW my basement stays about 55ish through the summer ;)

Hi all About 8 months ago I started harvesting dregs from a few different sours I bought while in Belgium in March. I sanitized a mason jar and tin foil and pitched 4 different dregs into it over the course of a month and fed it every couple of weeks for the next month or so. ....then things...

Awesome, thanks for the input. Actually the hops were going to be my next question. I have a bunch (6-7oz) of whole leaf cascade a friend grew last year that have been sitting in the basement. I was planning on just dumping them since they arent sealed really well and havent been stored the...

I am going to bring this thread back from the dead. I am looking to harvest dregs but do not have a beer planed to use it for. Basically I would like to have a jug that I can pour dregs into to keep around and use to pitch into beers im planing on souring. A home brewers house blend of...

damn, a dozen? is that without adding any addition yeast then? I have 3 Cantillon 750s, 3 Drie Fontienen 750s, 3 Cantillon 375s and a 375 from Timmermans, so I was just going to start collecting all the dregs into a mason jar or something until those were all gone and then start putting...

After a lot of research I think im going to dive in soon with one of these. The wife and I just returned from 10 days in Belgium and amassed a little collection of 3 Fonteinen and Cantillon bottles to share with our friends (some of the bottles anyways) and thought it would be good to start a...

Yeah i could keg, but since I'm only getting 12ish bottles worth out of it i didn't reallywant to bother, and i would kind of like to give a couple out

First off, let me say thank you to the OP for putting this out there. I did 12 gallons of this about a year ago and split it half local coffee beans and half cherries and it came out amazing! Onto my issue, i threw about a gallon into a fermenter to intentionally forget about (unflavored) and...

I just did this one again. Tried the original recipe about 6 months ago and thought it was on the malty side from the actual centennial. Dropped the crystals a touch and bumped the hops (i couldn't find any actual hop info the first time so just guessed). Just brewed it Sunday so ill try and...

Alright thanks for the input. Bypassing the softener shouldn't be too hard of a task

Yeah i do have an outdoor faucet, but i would have to garden hose it into where i brew or to the water filter (which I've heard can result in negative tastes as well) i would love to hardline a water line from just before the softener straight to the filter in the garage which is only a few feet...

So i finally got a water report after my first 10 months or so of brewing at least once a month, and not making 1 decent ipa after probably 5 attempts. I'm in the country so it's well water through a water softener, and I'm running my brew water through a filter as well. Here are the results...