This month photo for this regular discussion thread is from my summer trip, I visited few craft brewerys and tasted local beers.

As usual share whatever brewing related - questions, recipes, successes, bad batches…

I will be away for some time (~6 months) but should be reachable. I will travel through Europe (Spain, France, Portugal, Germany,…) when I post about this in relevant community I will link it here. Keep it chill here so I don’t have to worry on road.

My last few brews turned out amazing and I am glad that I will be away and they will have time to age. Otherwise I would have drink them in few months, someone told me that ciders are best after 1-2 years of aging so finally it may get the chance to survive that long.

Edit: If you want to ask me something about my plans I posted about it on !bikepacking@lemmy.world

https://sopuli.xyz/post/21139450

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    2 days ago

    I’ve got a dark cherry melomel bulk aging. And a cider hardening up. The cider is a small batch, a friend handed me in the container. I’ve been feeding his interest in brewing, and so I couldn’t say no when he offered me 1.5 gallon. I improvised an airlock on the container he gave it to me in. He’d been opening containers to release pressure manually. LoL. It’s a wild yeast, which he was trying to control by controlling temperature. I’m a little concerned that there may be some mold/bacterial contamination from it’s slow start. I tasted a small amount and it was a bit ‘plasticky’ tasting. I prolly should have put it in a glass or stainless fermenter when I first got it, and pitched a stronger yeast. We’ll see how it goes. It’s all an experiment. And I didn’t get around to pressing any cider this year. In '23 it seemed like I was the cider king, and everyone was asking me to help with a batch. In '24 the apples around town didn’t do as well. Brew on!