Hold the butter: diacetyl, yeast, and the popcorn plot twist
What is diacetyl? Diacetyl (C4H6O2) is a compound that smells and tastes strongly of butter or butterscotch candy. It belongs to a family of compounds called Vicinal Diketones …
OTC: BEBR
Break Even Brewing
Financially Questionable Beer
Homebrew disclosure statement: past performance of a batch is not indicative of future fermentation results.
Last filing: 2026-03-22T07:18:15Z UTC
Live tape · conditioning (your floor model)
Now pouring
View Diminishing Returns — beer page
#108
Diminishing Returns
American Brown Ale · Amber and Brown American Beer
View Intertemporal Choice — beer page
#109
Intertemporal Choice
Dunkles Weissbier · German Wheat Beer
Open positions · primary & secondary
In the tanks
Pipeline & kettle · planning + brew day
Forward guidance
#114
black swan steve hops
Black IPA · IPA
#115
Leveraged losses
Brown IPA · IPA
From the ledger
Brewing notes — unaudited, opinionated, possibly solvent.
The Day the Kettle Broke Down
The Day the Kettle Broke Down it was the start of the brewday, when the large element wouldn’t kick on. I guess i’m not brewing then. So went my last attempt at a brew …