Good Libations: Bruery's sour beers get a home
When the sour beer craze kicked in a few years back, breweries were faced with a dilemma: how to keep a safe distance between those volatile beers, which are infected with Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus or other micro-organisms to give them that puckery taste, and the nonsours, which can be easily infected by such critters and turn sour accidentally. Firestone Walker went to the extreme length of locating its sour beer facility, including a tasting room, in a different
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