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Not getting much chance to post on this thread but tonight I have some free time and a crack at my Foreign Extra Stout, now 18 months in the bottle. Got better body than Charles Atlas, and the 3 litres sour has really immersed itself into the body of the beer.
I do wonder how things came about, finings from a fishes swim bladder? Using up the returned sour beer from the public houses to add to another beer to improve that beer? Why not, a quick boil to kill the bacteria add it to a stout, (wouldn't have worked in anything else) and we have a most wonderful beer.
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Flash back to May 20th 2023 'What did you brew today'.
3 litres of wort for souring
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Gravity of the wort before the sour was added.
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I’m on the lash in the Halloween capital of Europe. @samale if you’re in town, I’m the only guy in Derry that’s not in fancy dress.
Had quite a few of these, the Altbier was the stand out in the lineup.

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The blackbird has a very nice black ipa on tap at the min if your still in Doire
 
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This was drunk with a late lunch after racking from the fermenting 21 litre cask into two 11 litre serving casks.
A Kent Gold ale using my own-grown this year's Prima Donna (First Gold) hop harvest at middle, end and for dry hopping.
I say end hops, as I can't say whirlpool - the pump blocked 😡 so could only received manual swirling from time to time.
Lovely and rich with a long bitter finish. 🍺
This will not be tried again for a good few weeks to permit the yeast clearing up and dropping clear time (hopefully).
 
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