Up until the 4th I’ve brewed just once this year. Too much work, the house needs things, I have a family… all these excuses. But
One does not simply take apart a barrel
I am well aware that Cooperage is a long and storied occupation going back thousands of years. It should come as no surprise that I
Mystery sour part 3: not quite so mysterious anymore.
My sour that I tried making out of an eventually well-attuned pilsner/ saison hybrid did almost nothing in the wild, neutral barrel. What was I
Mystery Sour
The mystery sour is not very sour. I took a pH reading and it is sitting firmly around 4.4 pH which is a great beer
Creating the brewery pt 2
All good work takes a while. And sometimes mediocre work takes just as long. If I had, for instance, paid a professional to come in
Waiting six months
Bottle conditioning is the biggest wildcard in brewing. Does it matter? Does it improve the flavor of the beer? Does it scrub oxygen from the
Ethanol Work 