{"id":549,"date":"2015-05-29T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/29\/michael-tonsmeire-drops-some-knowledge\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T15:14:06","slug":"michael-tonsmeire-drops-some-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/29\/michael-tonsmeire-drops-some-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Tonsmeire Drops Some Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite home-brew channel (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2QgXptgw1ys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chop &amp; Brew<\/a>) just posted a video of sour beer guru Michael Tonsmeire discussing the brewing of sour beers. He starts off with the basics (advice to follow if brewing your first beer), but goes into some of the finer details later in the video. So grab your headphones, a homebrew, and retreat to a quiet corner of your home and let the knowledge flow through you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2QgXptgw1ys\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Edit:<\/h3>\n<div>Want the Cole&#8217;s notes version of the details? Here&#8217;s two handy tables:<\/div>\n<div>\n<h5>Controlling Funk:<\/h5>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Maximize<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Minimize<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Add wheat malt<\/td>\n<td>Avoid wheat malt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perform a ferulic acid rest (42C\/1208F for 15-30 minutes)<\/td>\n<td>Avoid low-temperature rests; go straight to Saccharification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Primary ferment with a spicy strain (Belgian, hefeweizen)<\/td>\n<td>Primary ferment with a clean yeast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Use a phenolic Brett\u00a0(<i>B. lambicus, B.\u00a0bruxellensis)<\/i><\/td>\n<td>No Brett, or a mild brett (<i>B. claussenii<\/i>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sour beer in primary fermenter (autolysis = phenols)<\/td>\n<td>Rack to secondary after fermentation. Optional: \u00a0cold crashing\/fining\/filtering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bottle condition<\/td>\n<td>Force carbonate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>Controlling Acidity:<\/h5>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Maximize<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Minimize<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>High saccharification temperature (158-160F, 70-71C)<\/td>\n<td>Low saccharification temperature (146-148F\/63-34C)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Use less attenuative brewers yeast<\/td>\n<td>Pitch highly attenuative brewers yeast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sour with\u00a0<i>L. brevis<\/i>\u00a0and <i>Pwediococcus<\/i><\/td>\n<td>Use Wyeast\/White Labs <i>L. delbrueckii<\/i>, or <i>L. buchneri<\/i>\u00a0for souring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite home-brew channel (Chop &amp; Brew) just posted a video of sour beer guru Michael Tonsmeire discussing the brewing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,18,19,17],"tags":[61,164,55],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brewing-science","category-classical-sours","category-solera","category-sour-n-wild","tag-brewing-methods","tag-recipe-formulation","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Tonsmeire Drops Some Knowledge - Sui Generis Brewing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/suigenerisbrewing.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/29\/michael-tonsmeire-drops-some-knowledge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Tonsmeire Drops Some Knowledge - Sui Generis Brewing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My favourite home-brew channel (Chop &amp; 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