A New Barrel Project and Eventual Solera Vessel

Adventures in Homebrewing often has 15 gallon FEW Spirits barrels in their Ann Arbor store taunting me, calling to me to buy them. I’ve reluctantly managed to resist the temptation telling myself “one day…”. Well, Adventures sent out a “spring cleaning” sale email a few weeks ago and I opened it to browse just in … [Read more…]

Starting a Solera Sour Project

Since pitching my sour culture into a lambic for the first time and yielding good, albeit early, results I have begun to think about my long terms plans for making sour beer. I also started to consider how I might keep my culture going without allowing it to succumb to selective pressures that might reduce … [Read more…]