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2011 Lambic (working towards a Gueuze) with Funky East Coast Yeast Bugfarm 4
The weather on Labor Day could not have been any worse or any better for brewing. Cold and rainy most of the day with temps in the upper 50’s made for a great day to stay in and brew. The brewhouse was a nice 70 degrees most of the brew session and the only down…
BrandonBrett Saison with White Labs 670 – ( WLP670 )
It’s another Breaking Bad Sunday so what better than a beer with the ultimate yeast that broke bad… Brettanomyces. I’m always up to try a new yeast in my beers. In fact back when I entered a lot of competitions (and was actually winning) [KIDDING] one of my not so secret secrets was using a…
New Belgium Lips of Faith Updates
I was just going to update the article on New Belgium’s “Clutch” release but I found out some more exciting news for those of you in the Nashville area. So here is the deal on Clutch…64 cases will arrive next week with it hitting stores on September 8-9. Now for the other news. The other…
New Lips Of Faith Release: Clutch (A Dark Sour Ale)
Sign me up for this one! The new release in the Lips of Faith series from New Belgium brewing sounds awesome. It’s called “Clutch” and is named after a hard-rock band out of Maryland. The beer has trickled into some markets on draft already, but the official release party was scheduled for today (August 29th)…
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales: Bam Biere
This delicious farmhouse ale is named for our Jack Russell, who struck by a car, bounced back in fine tenacious Jack Russell fashion, and is brewed for those of us who knocked down, have picked up, dusted off and carried on undaunted. Golden, naturally cloudy, bottle conditioned and dry hopped for a perfectly refreshing balance…
Photoshoot Setup
A few of you have emailed me asking what I shoot the sour beer pictures with. The equipment I use is pretty simple. I use a Sony Alpha-500 camera for the main photo shoots. For the shots that have an effect I usually use my HTC EVO and I use an app called Vignette that…
500 year Journey of Wild Yeast and Lager Yeast
Lager fans hold on to your glasses because new evidence suggests lager yeast is a genetic mutation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and a wild yeast called Saccharomyces eubayanus. Yep those clean crisp clear lagers are the result of a wild yeast joining the party. This wild yeast is found to live on the outgrowth (galls) of the…
New Page Added- Ph of Commercial Beers
When I was writing the post about Lactic Acid and Ph Post Ferment I had a hard time finding information about the ph of currently available commercial sour beers. Raj B Apte’s information was all I could find. I thought it might be helpful to everyone if I started recording the ph levels of some of…
Experimenting with Lactic Acid and ph post ferment
My professional background is in live television production. If you know anything about live television once it happens its happened….there is no turning back. I like doing things right the first time, then being able to sit back and enjoy. So when it comes to beer post ferment I rarely doing anything else to the…
Brooks on Beer: Fruit beers
Quick update for everyone. I’ve got a few posts almost ready to go. Finishing up some fact checking. Here is a great read on Lambic and fruit beers by Jay Brooks. Brooks on Beer: Fruit beers – San Jose Mercury News. One of the oldest and most enduring types of fruit beers is the Belgian…