Sui Generis Brewing

Homebrewing Recipes 

Tasting Notes: Cyser 2017

October 15, 2018October 15, 2018 Bryan 0 Comments cider, cyser, mead, tasting notes

Last fall I brewed a batch of cyser – a cider-mead hybrid. This was a very basic mead: I took

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Fermented Foods Food 

Fermented Foods: Taking the Mystery Out Of Brine

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 Bryan 0 Comments brine, fermented food, salt, water

The brine is the most important part of many fermented foods. Too little salt and the food will spoil. Too

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Fermented Foods Food 

Food Fermentation: The Good, The Bad & The Infectious

October 3, 2018October 3, 2018 Bryan 0 Comments acetic acid, acetobacter, bacteria, fermentation, lacobacillus, lactic acid, lactic acid bacteria, yeast

Like wild & sour beers, fermented foods rely on a host of organisms to generate their flavourful and preservative properties.

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Adventures in Yeast Wrangling Collecting Wild Yeasts Sour & Wild Yeast Wrangling 

Brewing Wild – A Talk to the Jersey City Brew Club

September 22, 2018September 22, 2018 Bryan 0 Comments brettanomyces, hunting wild yeasts, saccharomyces, wild brewing, yeast capture

It has been a long time, but I’ve finally put together a new YouTube video – Brewing Wild, A Talk to

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Fermented Foods Food 

Fermented Foods – The Homebrewers Next Frontier

September 20, 2018 Bryan 0 Comments alternative fermenters, brine, fermented food, fermenter, food

While my blog (and neglected Youtube channel) has focused on alcoholic fermentation, I don’t think it would surprise my readers/viewers

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Homebrewing Rapid Sours Recipes Sour & Wild 

LEO Apricot Sour

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 Bryan 1 Comment brettanomyces, fruit beer, kettle sours, kveik, mixed fermentation, tasting notes

LEO Apricot Sour Four weeks ago I brewed three beers from one mash – the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Apricot

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Homebrewing Recipes 

Broken Robot Radler

August 24, 2018 Bryan 1 Comment radler, tasting notes

A few weeks ago I posted about a brew day in which I created three beers out of a single

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Homebrewing Recipes 

One mash, three beers

July 31, 2018August 27, 2018 Bryan 2 Comments berliner weiss, brewday, kettle sours, kveik, radler, saison

An unfortunate side-effect of getting older is that other commitments begin to cut into your brewing time. Twenty years ago

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Homebrewing Recipes 

BrainBug 90’s IPA

July 21, 2018 Bryan 0 Comments IPA, recipe, tasting notes

As my regular readers likely know, I’ve been brewing a long time. December 2016 marked my 20th anniversary as a

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Collecting Wild Yeasts Sour & Wild 

Thank You Jersey City – Online Talk

July 18, 2018 Bryan 1 Comment capture, talk, wild yeast

  On Monday I gave a short online talk to the Jersey City Brew Club, about various methods to catch and

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