Imperial Sour Batch Kidz

[Dgallo]

finally pitching my SBK pouch. Grist was super thick and malty used two packs of belgian dry yeast now day 14 pitching SBK with 4lbs of dried unsweetened cherries and a simple syrup to get things amoving. Pretty excited to see how she goes in like June

Holy cow. I thought you fell off the face of the earth. Glad to see you post again

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

Holy cow. I thought you fell off the face of the earth. Glad to see you post again

Hey man good to be seen.

Really was slacking on my brewing after we moved finally getting back into the swing of it again. Hows the little one?

 

[goodolarchie]

Not sure if this is true, but I got word here from my Portland LHBS that SBK "brand" will be discontinued, they'll have to release it under a new name, Imperial might have gotten a C&D from the candy co. Not sure on the timeline but I imagine it will take a couple months to show back up in homebrew pouches. It looks like it's still for sale from vendors, and it's on their website.

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

So my beer using this is now at almost 8 months in the fermenter, thinking about bottling one of these weekends...pretty hopeful per the above that this much time will give the beer a nice complexity.

 

[goodolarchie]

My impression is that it has wonderful complexity (lots of pithy zest, hint of funk, good clean citric like acidity if you kept IBUs low) at even 2 months in. I haven't noticed it "ripen" much after 6+ months, where you start noticing new layers of flavor and aroma, but more time is always good for brett! To that end it's always been the strain I recommend to anybody who wants to try making their first funky beer, due to how performant it is, as most folks making their first are impatient.

Also looks like I was correct about the C&D, and it's now rebranded as Sour Batch

https://www.imperialyeast.com/organic-yeast-strains/yeast-types/wild-sour/sour-batch/

 

[suprchunk]

Thank you for this. I brewed with this yeast last year and have yet to crack the tap to test it. You've piqued my interest and I may have to try it out.

 

[suprchunk]

Still haven't kegged mine, but I'm in the middle of moving so I'll probably take a bit out of the fermentation vessel to see before lugging it up.