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    Starting a bottle dregs solera?

    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...
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    Bottle Dregs to old?

    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...
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    Bottle Dregs for first Lambic/Gueuze

    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...
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    Help! i think my water sucks!

    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...
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    old grains

    I just got handed the grain bill for this recipe http://beersmith.com/Recipes2/recipe_273.htm From a friend of mine who long story short isn't using it. The only problem is he got it together about 6 months ago and yes the grains are crushed. He assured me that it was sealed air tight for the...
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    Chocolate covered raisin?

    Hey all, in a bit over my head with this idea but any input would be really helpful. Looking to try and pull something like this off in the near future and finally have the room to do so. Probably going to have to be a dubbel, maybe a quad. The only thing i really know is that special b is...
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    House ipa recipe critique please

    Sort of a blend of two hearted and zombie dust (i think at least). I'm going to do side by side 5 gallon batches, one with s04 and the other s05. 2 hearted is my go-to but i think if it was more available I'd have a case of zombie on hand so apart from the citra (i think that's what's in it...
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    beersmith vs brewersfriend

    I wrote up an ipa recipe i want to try soon on brewers friend a week or so ago and it came out to 74 Ibu. Just downloaded beersmith mobile 2.0 and plugged in the same recipe and came to 56 Ibu. Everything else is identical and i made sure those are both tinseth. Any ideas?
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    Brown recipe critique

    Hey all, sorry if this is in the wrong thread but i didn't want to post it into the recipes since I'm not sure about it. Any help/insight is welcome as my last 2 browns have turned into porters. 9.44 lbs row 1.25 lbs crystal 80 .2 lbs chocolate malt .2 lbs blackprinz .25 lbs rolled oats...
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    LME addition?

    Hi everyone! New to the site but have been stalking for quite a while. I'm about to tackle the heavenly scourge iipa recipe and bumped the 2 row to 17 from the original 15.5 to make up for my efficiency. I'm also shooting to pull a second running session black ipa off the same grains and am...
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