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Types of Sour Beer

American Wild ale
American Wild ale

Learn more about the American Wild Ale style of beer, plus recommendations for food pairings and glassware.

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Berliner Weisse
Berliner Weisse

Head retention can be an issue in Berliner Weisse and in a wide variety of sour beer styles. While I have not personally done any controlled tests on the matter, a number of brewers are suggesting that pre-acidification of the wort to 4.5 can help prevent the head retention issue.

Flanders red ale
Flanders red ale

Flanders Reds are commonly referred to as the "red" beers of West Flanders. Belgian Red Beers are typically light-bodied brews with reddish-brown colors. They are infamous for their distinct sharp, fruity, sour and tart flavors which are created by special yeast strains.

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Gose
Gose

The process used to sour this beer was a little challenging to engineer on a larger scale than my home-brewed sour beers, but in the end it produced the same great results. This beer was soured using a sour-kettle method.

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Lambic
Lambic

So, if you compare "sour beer" to Lambic, the difference is that a brewer of sour beer is looking for a lot of sourness in his beer and that the traditional Lambic brewer is trying to limit the sourness to obtain a beer with a winy taste.

Oud Bruin
Oud Bruin

Hi Mike, i'd like to use this recipe and technique as a general inspiration but i'm trying to optain a more evident belgian character (you describe this inbetween an oud bruin and an old ale). The idea is doing sour worting but replacing s04 with a classic belgian yeast (e.g. wyeast 3522).

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