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Successful Kettle Souring with Resident Culture Brewing

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Successful Kettle Souring with Resident Culture Brewing

Join Chris Tropeano, cofounder and head brewer at Resident Culture, for a kettle-souring brew day. Get his expert advice on recipe development, bacteria, process, hopping, adjuncts, and much more.

5 chapters · 22 lessons · 54m

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Join Chris Tropeano, cofounder and head brewer at Resident Culture, for a kettle-souring brew day. Get his expert advice on recipe development, bacteria, process, hopping, adjuncts, and much more.

Your instructor

Chris Tropeano

Chris Tropeano

Founder, Resident Culture Brewing & Master Brewer

Chris Tropeano, founder of Resident Culture Brewing and former brewer at Russian River.

Course contents

5 chapters, 22 lessons, 54m of video

Chapter 1

Welcome to Successful Kettle Souring with Resident Culture Brewing

  • About Resident Culture Brewing Co.0:55
  • Recipe Development Considerations4:52
  • Become a Kettle Sour Expert
  • The Keys to Getting Great Results with Kettle Sours

Chapter 2

Souring Methods

  • Souring Methods Overview6:51
  • Hops Impact on Souring1:34
  • Equipment Considerations2:03
  • Brewers’ Perspectives: More than One Way to Sour a Beer
  • Lactobacillus, according to the Oxford Companion to Beer
  • The Sour Beer Spectrum

Chapter 3

Brew Day Process

  • Brewing Process Overview14:50
  • Kettle Souring Times6:47
  • Boiling Sour Wort5:37
  • Sour Mash Secrets
  • Getting Technical: What Is pH? And Why Does It Matter?

Chapter 4

Fermenting, Adjuncting, and Packaging Quick Sours

  • Fermenting Sour Wort2:43
  • Adjuncting Your Sour Base7:45

Chapter 5

Recipes and Thanks

  • Recipe: Sixth Street Sour
  • Recipe: Scared Sour Berliner Weisse
  • Recipe: Koriander und Salz, Gotterhalt’s Gose
  • Recipe: Tart of Lightness
  • Thanks for Taking this Course!