Sui Generis Brewing

Optimizing Yeast Starters and Large-Scale Yeast Production

Optimizing yeast starters is important for the frugal brewer and for producing large batches of beer. But what can you achieve at at home?

Recipe and tasting notes for Thiolize This! – a peach & mango sour beer fermented with a thiolizing yeast. Did it work? Click to find out!

A quick dive into the risk of botulism during cheese making, and how to manage that risk.

There are a lot of claims regarding the safety and dangers of consuming raw milk. This article takes a critical eye to separate hype from reality.

A new video in my “Beer on the Brain” series looking at a potential environmental niche where wild Brettanomyces may

Companion blog post for my newest video. Contains the recipes for the cheese, beer, and mead featured in the video.

This post was motivated by a letter read by Cade at the beginning of episode 65 of The Brü Lab.

IPAs have changed a lot since the mid-1990’s when I first started brewing them. Can you combined four decades of IPA trends into a single beer?

This blog post is a short summary of a 7-year long experiment looking at whether metabisulfite can be used to

Pilsners are a thing of simple beauty, but brewing a good one can be a challenge. It took a few iterations, but I finally have a great SMaSH recipe.