Anyone have any feedback on our sour blends (Melange and Sour Farmhouse Ale) that they'd like to share? They are the two cultures we haven't heard a lot of feedback about since we released them last August. Figured the 6 month mark is probably a time people are checking in on their beers. Cheers!
I pitched Melange into my first sour project in November. So, it's only been a bit over 4 months now. I probably won't have any feedback for another 8 months, but I'd be real interested to hear anyone else's feedback to date.
No reason not to give it a check! I think 4 months is a good time to check it out and see where it's at. I checked my last one at ~8-9 weeks and the flavor profile definitely hadn't developed a lot of complexity yet (which will come as the Brett starts up), but the pH was already down to 3.34.
As much as I'd love to get in there and see what it's tasting like, I'm a big advocate of set-it-and-forget-it. I have the carboy filled right up to the narrowest part of the neck, and I plan on leaving it undisturbed until I'm thinking about kegging, which will be no earlier than 12 months. It's a bit if an exercise in self restraint.
To each their own! We actually had an interesting discussion about sampling sours for home brewers when I was on the Sour Hour with Jay Goodwin. Some people are of the "set it and forget it" mentality and others are more into tracking the flavor development. My opinion is if your process makes good beer, there's probably no reason to change it! Cheers, and let us know how it turns out!
Thought we'd drop line here and let you all know we're all restocked with the funky/sour stuff on our website. We also started doing wholesale in the US, and a lot of the stores that started carrying us are stocking the sour/funky yeast. We started listing the stores that carry us on the Find Us page of the website.
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