• Beer Styles
    • Barleywine
    • Belgian
    • Brown Ale
    • Cider
    • Czech Lager
    • Dark Mild
    • Fruit Beer
    • Funky (Brett)
    • German (Ale)
    • German (Lager)
    • Hoppy
    • Lager (Other)
    • Pepper Beer
    • Porter
    • Rye Ale
    • Smoked Beer
    • Sour
    • Stout
    • Wee Heavy
  • Souring/Funkifying
    • Flanders-style Red Ale – 1/24/18
    • Sour Blonde #2 – 4/10/16
    • Sour Blonde #3 (Cascade Bottle Dregs) – 12/10/16
    • Sour Rye (4 Bottle Dregs, 2 Jugs, More Than One Cup) – Started 7/3/16
  • Other Shit
    • A Lager Made the Authentic Way (Dunkel)
    • Advantages of Small Batch Brewing (First World Problems Are Real)
    • Brewing a Beer with Only Grocery Store Ingredients
    • How to Install a STC-1000 Temp Controller on a Chest Freezer (Drunk Morons Included)
    • How to Perform a Parti-Gyle
    • Making My First Mead
    • Steps to Making a Great IPA (Says a Dry West Cost Hop Douche)
    • Wine Making (Mezza Luna Red Wine Kit)
A homebrewer trying his best

Sour Black

  • Sour
  • Dark Sour with Hilgardii

    This was an experiment to see what Lactobacillus Hilgardii could do with IBUs. I had previously used it for a quick sour, but that was with no IBUs. I’ve heard tale of strains being able to handle upwards of 30 IBUs, but above 15 I would say the limit before there is a big drop off in lactic acid production (full list of Lactobacillus and their IBU range). […]

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  • Sour
  • Sour Black – 10 Months Aged

    God I love sour beers. I think it has something to do with my love for wine as well. The best sours out there are the closest thing in the beer world that brings the complexity wine has, especially those with fruit added or aged in wine barrels. […]

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    Beer Styles

    • Barleywine
    • Belgian
      • Belgian Strong
      • Saison
      • Saison (Brett)
    • Brown Ale
    • Cider
    • Czech Lager
    • Dark Mild
    • Fruit Beer
    • Funky (Brett)
    • German (Ale)
      • Hefeweizen
      • Dunkelweizen
    • German (Lager)
      • Helles
      • Munich Dunkel
      • Schwarzbier
      • Vienna Lager
    • Hoppy
      • American IPA
      • Black IPA
      • Brett IPA
      • Brut IPA
      • English IPA
      • Fruited IPA
      • Hazy IPA
      • India Black Lager
      • Other (Hoppy)
      • Pale Ale
      • Red IPA
      • Session IPA
      • Wheat IPA
    • Lager (Other)
      • American Pale Lager
    • Pepper Beer
    • Porter
    • Rye Ale
    • Smoked Beer
      • Grodziskie
      • Rauchbier
    • Sour
      • Berliner Weisse
      • Gose
      • Lichtenhainer
      • Sour Black
      • Sour Blonde
      • Sour Brown
      • Sour Red
      • Sour Rye
      • Wild Yeast Harvest
    • Stout
      • Foreign Extra Stout
      • Imperial Stout
    • Wee Heavy

    Souring/Funkifying (Date = Last time yeast or bugs were added)

    • Flanders-style Red Ale – 1/24/18
    • Sour Blonde #2 – 4/10/16
    • Sour Blonde #3 (Cascade Bottle Dregs) – 12/10/16
    • Sour Rye (4 Bottle Dregs, 2 Jugs, More Than One Cup) – 7/9/16

    Other Stuff

    • A Lager Made the Authentic Way (Dunkel)
    • Advantages of Small Batch Brewing (First World Problems Are Real)
    • Brewing a Beer with Only Grocery Store Ingredients
    • How to Install a STC-1000 Temp Controller on a Chest Freezer (Drunk Morons Included)
    • How to Perform a Parti-Gyle
    • Making My First Mead
    • Steps to Making a Great IPA (Says a Dry West Cost Hop Douche)
    • Wine Making (Mezza Luna Red Wine Kit)

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    My name is Jason. Feel free to email me at barleyandthehops1@gmail.com with questions I may or may not be able to answer.