Re: Souring an already finished Irish Red.

Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:09 pm

brewerTristan wrote:Can you really make a bad beer, or at least one you don't like, better by souring it? It seems like the wisdom when it comes to fruit beer applies: if the beer isn't any good, adding fruit or other flavouring will just make it a bad fruit beer.


Oh, I'm sure. This probably won't work out. But why not try it? I'm only risking a $6 tube of bugs. That's why I'm favoring the bugs vs. lactic. If I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail going balls out.
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Re: Souring an already finished Irish Red.

Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:28 am

andy77 wrote:
brewerTristan wrote:Can you really make a bad beer, or at least one you don't like, better by souring it? It seems like the wisdom when it comes to fruit beer applies: if the beer isn't any good, adding fruit or other flavouring will just make it a bad fruit beer.


Oh, I'm sure. This probably won't work out. But why not try it? I'm only risking a $6 tube of bugs. That's why I'm favoring the bugs vs. lactic. If I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail going balls out.
Totally! and throw some cherries in it... :mrgreen:
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