brendanos
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While I've put out a couple of sour beers in the few years I've been home brewing, I've never had any "resident microbes", or unitentionally infected batches. I've even used the same fermenters and hoses, just being sure to clean them profusely before using them again (though extended aging i've always done in glass). When dealing with any kind of wild yeast or bacteria, the advice you get is always the same - have two of everything - one for your regular beers, and one for your sour beers. They'll tell you that once it's touched something sour, draw x's on it and forget about it. The cost and space of setting up this "second brewery" has always been inhibitive for me. I've been contemplating this long and hard over the past year or so, and have recently come to an incredibly exciting conclusion - to ditch the rest and only brew sour from here on in.
I've always been a massive fan of lambics, sour browns, sour reds, funked belgians, farmhouse ales, etc etc, so rather than it being a frightening concept, the thought of not brewing "regular" beer is actually quite liberating. I've got at least 16 2-5L jars just begging to be filled. Ditching "unpleasant" batches doesn't really worry me either, I think the experience will be well worth it. Watch out De Dolle, T'Ij, Le Baladin, Fantome - here I come! And if you think I'm going to miss "clean" beer, you probably don't know me.
Might want to keep me away from your brewery though.........
I've always been a massive fan of lambics, sour browns, sour reds, funked belgians, farmhouse ales, etc etc, so rather than it being a frightening concept, the thought of not brewing "regular" beer is actually quite liberating. I've got at least 16 2-5L jars just begging to be filled. Ditching "unpleasant" batches doesn't really worry me either, I think the experience will be well worth it. Watch out De Dolle, T'Ij, Le Baladin, Fantome - here I come! And if you think I'm going to miss "clean" beer, you probably don't know me.
Might want to keep me away from your brewery though.........