Soured Herb, Spice, and Vegetable Beer

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Sour Herb, Spice and Vegetable beer is mixed fermentation or sour beer with the addition of spikes, herbs or vegetables. These beers, along with Soured Fruit Beers would fall into 2015 BJCP style of 28C - Wild Specialty Beer. Here we will discuss the use of spices, herbs and vegetables in sour beers and give recommendations based off of those brewed by MTFers and commercial brewers.

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Spice/Herb/Vegetable	Format	Amount	Added in	Contact Time	Commercial Examples
Elderflowers	Whole, fresh		Secondary		Cantillon Mamouche
Rhubarb	Whole		Secondary		Cantillon Zwanze 2012
Vanilla	Whole pods				Rare Barrel Home Sour Home
Tea	Dried leaves
Hibiscus
Chocolate
Oak (French, Med toast)	Cubes
Oak (American, Med toast)	Cubes
Grains of Paradise	dried, crushed				Rare Barrel Grainsta's Paradise
Peppercorns, black	dried, crushed
Peppercorns, Pink	dried, crushed
Peppers, hot					Upright Fatali Four
Hay			Mash		Jester King Repose
Beets					Jester King Hibernal Dichotomous
Thyme					Jester King Hibernal Dichotomous
Rosemary

See Also

Additional Articles on MTF Wiki

• Soured Fruit Beer