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A New Barrel Project and Eventual Solera Vessel

May 11, 2017 / Leave a Comment
Few Spirits Rye Whiskey Barrel

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 case … [Read more…]

Posted in: Beer Tagged: barrel, barrel aged, solera

Solera Project – The Beginning, Batch #1

March 28, 2016 / Leave a Comment
Sour Dubbel, Solera Batch #1

My Solera project is finally up and running with Batch #1 brewed and fermenting. This post tells how it went and details the future of the project.

Posted in: Brewing Tagged: dubbel, solera, sour beer

Starting a Solera Sour Project

July 30, 2015 / 3 Comments
sour culture, aka gremlyns

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…]

Posted in: Brewing Tagged: solera, sour beer

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