What you need to know about Kettle Souring
What is Kettle Souring? Kettle Souring is a brewing technique that allows brewers to sour unfermented wort very quickly, in most cases between 24 and 72 hours. A "kettle" is a piece of brewery equipment called a brewing kettle that is the vessel in which the beer is soured. This is a stainless steel saccharification keg where the souring process takes place and the beer is then left to ferment in the tank. The main difference between kettle souring and traditional souring is that a steel container is used instead of a keg. Why use Kettle Souring? Souring beer using kettle souring technology offers brewers a number of benefits. 1. Time frame: The ability to quickly sour a beer while maintaining all the other important key flavors is an obvious benefit of kettle souring. 2. No contamination: Souring the wort and then boiling it to kill Lactobacillus acidophilus eliminates the fear of contaminating other batches or infecting any other equipment in the fermentatio...