Sour Beer Project

[Charles Brands]

Hi folks,

I hope you all had a great holiday weekend.

I wanted to follow up to see if anyone else might be interested in contributing to the club’s sour-barrel beer project.

We (Charles, Brandon, and Michael) have decided to brew a sour stout, using Jester King’s Funk Metal recipe as our base - thanks again to Averie for sharing it with us! After simplifying the grist a bit, we ended up with something very close to a recipe from Tonsmiere’s book. All three recipes are linked below.

In other words, we’ve fully landed on a style and are getting close to finalizing the recipe.

We plan to sour the barrel with Roselare Ale Blend, plus some cultured dregs from a few of the sours brought to recent monthly meetings. We expect the sour character to take about 18 months to fully develop, so consider this a long-term project.

I’ll also bring a Flanders red on tart cherries (2023) and a Flanders red without cherries (2024, different recipe) to our next meeting to show how much more the blend’s sour character develops with time.

Once the recipe is finalized, we’re considering sending the specialty-grain portion of the grist to Victor's in ABQ so he can measure and bag it for us (super convenient), and then buying the base malts by the sack to keep costs down.

Since we have a 25-gallon barrel, we’re hoping to find a few more contributors. Our goal is to fill the barrel in January 2026.

Please let me know if you’re interested. We’ve got a group chat ready for anyone who wants to be involved.

Cheers!

Charles Brands

[Corey Tresidder]

I'm in for 5 gallons if you didn't have me before

- Corey

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sangre de Cristo Craft Brewers" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nmsdccb+u...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nmsdccb/CADs%2BqzA-Tn%3D%2BRpZs4KrYyXfiYRCZtNwXfNprcs-Zmmq1HWyGFA%40mail.gmail.com.

[George Candal]

I'm in for 5 as well.

-George 

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nmsdccb/CADtUPSQQLDX91JdAUmU7Nd6tGHqFaWOhq0fcD86NnheqDC1pBg%40mail.gmail.com.