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Quick Sour Beer Techniques

Sour beer is rising in popularity, but not everyone has the patience or confidence to allow wild airborne yeasts and bugs do the job changing your clean wort to a sour beer. In the last decade several brewing techniques as well as products have allowed brewers to speed up the process while also achieving reliable and repeatable end results with their sour beers. Brew Your Own Magazine’s Technical Editor and Mr. Wizard Columnist Ashton Lewis walks you through the faster ways to get your own homemade sour beer in your glass.