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Hello from Toledo, Ohio where the apples from my tree are reaching the end of their peak. I have picked them all and stored them in my fridge and been working to make batches each weekend. My tree is not sprayed and has a worm in each apple. I have to quarter and core each one before processing...

So I am in the middle of making a sour beer using Philly Sour yeast. I'm about 5 days into fermentation and I was debating on what fruits to add. (Recipe below) When I was at my brew shop in town I saw some Brewers Best Natural Flavor bottles. I picked up Peach and Raspberry. My original plan...

Can someone help me out please, I’m trying to do some math. I know most yeast packets say “contains 100 billion yeast cells” but how much bacteria is in this. I can’t figure out what it says. I plan on doing a sour and wanted to compare the numbers to other options. I’m trying to do the math of...

Hey there! Just wanted to introduce my self. I'll keep this introduction short and brief. I'm currently from the Miami/FL keys area. I've been barbacking for over a year now. Starting from the winery and a few local breweries. From what I learned is that each brewery and bar work differently...

Kettle soured beer at the end of fermentation. Came to look at it before cold crashing and found this. Wtf am I looking at? Process: created my wort. Soured down to 3.1ph before boiling off and transferring to fermenter. US05 yeast to ferment. Found it like this. I started my cold crash and...

Hi, In april 2021, I've been brewing a lambic(-ish) base beer to which I was supposed to add cherries. The grain bill is 65% pilsner and 35% wheat malt. I attempted to follow a turbid mash but I ended up using too much water, so maybe the wort is too fermentable. I added enough hops to reach a...

Tried to make my own recipe for the first time: a gose using Goodbelly with lactobacillus to kettle sour it. Let it sour in the kettle for a few days and then transitioned it to the fermenter. After a couple weeks, added some lime peel and still looked good, but didn't yet have enough flavor. 1...

I’m wondering if aluminum material would be adequate for a cool ship cooling / lambic style inoculation ? excuse me if this has been discussed but I searched pretty thoroughly and haven’t found anything. Here and elsewhere... I currently live in a somewhat humid/ tropical climate (Medellín...

Hi guys. So all ciders and even mead came out SOUR tasting. They are dry as i used Montrachet yeast. I even tried Premier Blanc and both yield dry but SOUR taste. I'm ok with dry but sour taste notes bother a bit. I am looking for opposite of that, slightly sweet. Same thing happened with my...

Forgive me on my lack of biology/scientific knowledge, but digging deeper into the science of Pediococcus, it looks to “thrive” in optimal conditions of 6-8.0 ph depending on variety/strain ?!? I’m a huge fan of “real” sours which are aged over time to develop. Not huge on quick lactobacillus...

Hi everyone! I brewed this sour ale last February and pitched Sour Batch Kidz. It formed a nice bubbly pellicle for about 4 months. I added several bottle dregs about 4 months ago and purged the headspace with Co2 once done. Over the past 2 months this new white later formed. I’m not sure if...

This is my first post, so be easy on me! I'm looking to do a kettle sour this spring and after some consideration I think I want to try a cotton candy kettle sour. I'm looking for recommendations on adding the cotton candy flavor. I'm not a fan of using flavored extracts so I'm wondering if...

I want to do a Pliny the Elder clone and add lactose, goodbelly mango and fruit. So can I brew the clone as the recipe says but just add lactose instead of corn sugar and just second ferment the fruit to make a Pliny sour fruited IPA ?

Thought I'd share a fun one I'm in the middle of brewing. 50/50 pilsner/wheat, inoculated w/ 2 lb acid malt and has been sitting at 90F for about 48 hours. Will be boiling for another 5 min tonight with additions of 1 oz salt, 1 oz dill seed, 0.2 oz mustard seed, and 0.1 oz coriander seed...

So in 2014 I visited Russian River, got hyped, and then made 10 gallons each of red, brown, and lambic that summer. Sour beer didn’t catch on in my circles so by 2020 I still have a case each of red and brown bottles and a full keg of lambic. All 2014 vintage. What’s the best way to use this 5...

I want to make a 5 gallon batch of let’s say saison then split it into 5 one gallon jugs and pitch 5 different commercial mixed cultures or select Brett strains packs into each jug. Like 1 pack of Wyeast Roselare into one, 1 pack of Omega All the bretts into one , 1 pack of Bootleg Biology Funk...

Hey Y’all. We’ve got a situation and I’m not sure what our next steps should be. We’ve got our Belgian dark strong which was brewed 8 months ago. It had a pretty slow ferment. Started at 1.114 OG and got down to 1.040 after 3 months. So, I transferred it into new sanitized and co2 purged...

Hey, Have any of you attempted brewing those smoothie style fruited kettle sours? stuff like the veil or trilliums daily serving series. If so, can you give any advice regarding how to go about it. Would be interested to see your attempts too. Cheers

From what I've searched it's not widely explored doing mead/ braggot with rye grain, but this quarantine has convinced me it will be a great idea lol. On top of that I want to use Brettanomyces (I know I'm crazy). What I'm looking to get feedback on is how high % can I go with rye on a braggot...

I'm about to start my first fruit (papaya) sour (using the very easy method from this thread Fast Souring - Modern Methods) I know general practice is to add the fruit after initial fermentation subsides, but what is the reasoning behind this? Is it to preserve the fruit flavour or yeast...