Beer Style: Wild/Sour
Let’s Get Tropical: An obsession with the Florida-weisse
The fruited Berliner weisse beers have developed a relatively small, but devoted following. One homebrewer dives down this rabbit hole after getting enamored by one brewery’s version and wants to share his experience.
Against the Grain Kamen Knuddeln clone
Against the Grain Kamen Knuddeln clone Blend 4 parts kettle sour beer with 1 part Russian imperial stout for the clone. Carbonate to approximately 2.5 volumes. Kettle-Soured ale (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)
Lemon Lime Gose
This recipe is our play on the traditional Gose and is a big hit with our customers every time it comes out in the summer.
Yogi Berliner
This Berliner weisse recipe creates a quick soured ale by using 4 oz. of acidulated malt and a live yogurt culture
Perpetuum Sour
Author Michael Tonsmeire provides a recipe he utilizes for his home solera method to produce funky beers.
Perennial Artisan Ales’ Anniversaria clone
St. Louis, Missouri-based Perennial Artisan Ales’ anniversary ale, Anniversaria, is blended via solera. Their goal isn’t to release the same beer each year, but as brewer Jonathan Moxey put it, “create a thread that will run through each year’s release.”
Nitro Stonefruit Sour
The vanilla helps to make a more sherbet-like balance. You can add lactose to taste at packaging if you want more sweetness. The hop extract increases head retention, improving the perceived creaminess of the body and appearance of the beer. Lowering the pH before souring reduces protein breakdown by the bacteria, improving body and head retention.
What Gose Around
A Gose recipe utilizing freshly cracked coriander to provide citrus/herbal kick. Recipe from professional chef and culinary consultant Mark Molinaro.
Brazilian Style-Catharina Sour Beer – mock BJCP Guidelines
For those looking to learn more about this Brazilian style of beer, here is a mock BJCP guideline for Catharina Sour written by a Brazilian well acquainted with the style.
Magic Rock Brewing’s Salty Kiss clone
2014 World Beer Cup – Gold (Fruit Wheat Beer). Magic Rock Brewing is located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
Kentucky Common
Gordon Strong introduces readers to a Kentucky common recipe, which is one of the few truly indigenous beer styles in the United States, along with California common (steam beer) and cream ale.
Brett Beer – American Wild Ale
Brett beer is one of the three styles in the new American wild ale category of the 2015 Beer Judge Certification Program style guide and is wide open to interpretation.
