im very sorry. i dont brew sours

[jekeane]

I don't care for sours in general. That being said I think there is something interesting about sour styles like the Kentucky Common. I'm still working on the basic styles though

 

[burninator]

Well, you should be sorry.

^^This^^

And it wouldn't kill you to be rather ashamed of yourself, as well.

 

[Yooper]

im really sorry, i've been brewing for a long time, but i don't make sour beers. i still get excited when planning out a .4 to .5 og beer with 2 oz of hops. sometimes... i feel like the homebrew world is moving on and leaving me in the dust

Ha- try to be a BJCP judge and admit, "I don't like sours. I'm not a good judge of sours, and I think that they all taste, well, sour."

A couple of years ago, I tried to cultivate a taste for sours, like many do for IPAs (me included). But I couldn't. I was at squirrelybrewer's ( think that is his ID) brewer last weekend and his anniversary beer was a fruity sour that was getting raves. I was like, "um. Could I just have some of this DIPA?" I felt so left out of the current trend.

 

[Yooper]

I don't care for sours in general. That being said I think there is something interesting about sour styles like the Kentucky Common. I'm still working on the basic styles though

here's what is interesting- Kentucky Common is NOT a sour style of beer. At least, it's not supposed to be! I spent quite a long time chatting with Dibbs Harting about it. The trust of the paper: * "Therefore, the bacterium must be one of the hop insensitive species, more than likely L. brevis which no brewer would purposely introduce into his or her brewery but most likely resulted from
contaminated cooperage". And later, "One of the benefits of consolidation and emergence of much larger breweries was the incorporation of
cooperage operations which assured the barrels were sound, well pitched and, most importantly, sanitized.* *Unfortunately, these attributes were not shared in the smaller breweries.* *It is here that I believe, however intriguing, the sour beer myth and legend originated."

For info:
http://www.bjcp.org/docs/NHC2014-kycommon-handout.pdf

 

[Billy-Klubb]

punishments! punishments until you all like & brew sours!

 

[jekeane]

here's what is interesting- Kentucky Common is NOT a sour style of beer. At least, it's not supposed to be! I spent quite a long time chatting with Dibbs Harting about it. The trust of the paper: * "Therefore, the bacterium must be one of the hop insensitive species, more than likely L. brevis which no brewer would purposely introduce into his or her brewery but most likely resulted from
contaminated cooperage". And later, "One of the benefits of consolidation and emergence of much larger breweries was the incorporation of
cooperage operations which assured the barrels were sound, well pitched and, most importantly, sanitized.* *Unfortunately, these attributes were not shared in the smaller breweries.* *It is here that I believe, however intriguing, the sour beer myth and legend originated."

For info:
http://www.bjcp.org/docs/NHC2014-kycommon-handout.pdf

yeah I read that researching Kentucky Commons after having one that blew my mind.

 

[ChefRex]

Brew what you like, I like sours but I'm not crazy about paying for them, I don't drink them all the time, I go to IPA's saisons, stouts, Ect,ect,ect for that. They take time and they change as they age, patience is a virtueyou never know what your going to get.
I'll brew one up when the pipeline is full and let it do its thing.
This reminds me I need more fermenters

 

[DrKnow]

I'm very sorry, I don't brew hefeweizens.
It's totally fine to brew only what you like.
And if you don't like commercial sours, even better. That's more for the rest of us to buy that do enjoy them.

 

[Hoppity]

My first infection was on a Belgian Witt. It had a crazy funk skim coat on the top of the fermentation bucket. After kegging, I marked it 'Do Not Serve'. My brother took it and served it from his tap, with positive reviews. I was happy to see it go.

It was sour.

 

[Frognostic]

I have never tried a sour.

I would like to try a sour.

I find the science behind sour brewing interesting, the microbiology and biochemistry and all that.

I have yet to brew ale or beer but if or when I do I will not be brewing a sour.

That is not to say I have no interest in brewing a sour, just that it is not on the top of my list of brewing priorities.

And, as has already been mentioned in this thread, I fear cross contamination and not being able to get rid of it once it has been introduced into the local environment.

 

[dfhar]

As somebody who dislikes not only sours, but also IPAs, stouts/porters, and most Belgian beers, I really do understand how you feel like a black sheep.

Don't let it get to you. Brew what you like, and try not to forget the fact that everybody has different tastes and that's what makes this hobby so fun. It may not always seem like it, but there are plenty of people out there who enjoy the same beers as you and are happy to talk about them.

I am infatuated with German and Czech lagers, and to a slightly lesser extent British milds/bitters and Scottish ales. So, that's what I brew! I don't expect everyone to share my tastes (although I wish more people would realize that not all lagers are fizzy, yellow, and watery), and I never have trouble finding other brewers out there who share the same tastes as me.

 

[bobeer]

homebrewing is about brewing what you want to. It's not about keeping up with the trends. Brew what you want and how you want because you love how it tastes and you have fun doing it. End of story.

I brew mostly American styles and I'm fine with that. I've been brewing for years now and I don't consider myself a novice brewer just because I only brew American ales. I have equipment to lagers and to do sours but I don't really dig them so I'm not going to waste my time making them just to say I've done it. Who cares. Life is too short to worry about what others are doing or what they think of you. You do you and own that. Life would be boring if everyone did the same thing.

 

[BigFloyd]

You have lots of company. I don't like/brew sours. Neither do I brew IPAs (but enjoy most pale ales) nor clones of fizzy yellow horse wizz.

 

[Psylocide]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0EL_u4nvw[/ame]

 

[signpost]

I have approximately 21 gallons of sour beers fermenting right now and around a case of an Oud Bruin still in bottles.



I like them.

 

[Trillium]

I think I need to be medicated. I love beer, but I'm not fond of sour beer, saisons, wheat beer or really strong beers. Something must be wrong with me.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Al does not approve of the sour hate. I just hope y'all don't wake up Bob...