Below is a list of online blogs that are either focused on sour/funky brewing or at least have substantial information on sour/funky brewing. We recommend using an RSS Reader software to keep track of blog articles.
| Name |
Author |
General Content and Highlights
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| Milk The Funk Community Blog |
Various Authors |
The community blog for the Milk The Funk Facebook group.
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| Brouwerij-Chugach |
Brian Hall |
Homebrewing lambic, blending, barrel information, bread/pizza making and beta tester for The Yeast Bay
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| A PhD in Beer |
Matt Humbard |
Microbiologist; wild brewing; isolating yeast
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| Bad Lee Brewed |
Lee |
Homebrew blog including some wild brewing; based in Thailand
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| Brain Sparging on Brewing |
Adam Kielich |
Small batch Solera and "gueuze" blending
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| Browne and Bitter |
Amos Browne |
Emphasis on wild saison brewing and historical brewing
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| Deeper Roots Brewing |
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Sour brewing section that focuses on using bottle dregs
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| Sour Beer Blog |
Matt Miller and others |
Extensive commercial sour beer list and reviews, as well as sour homebrewing
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| Spontaneous Funk |
Michael Thorpe |
Wild homebrewing including spontaneous fermentation
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| Sui Generis Brewing |
Bryan |
Wild brewing, yeast wrangling and culturing, and maintains a yeast bank for trade
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| The Mad Fermentationist |
Michael Tonsmeire |
Authority on sour brewing with extensive experimentation; author of "American Sour Beers"
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| The Mark of the Yeast |
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Emphasis on Brettanomyces, yeast wrangler, microscopy, and maintains a yeast bank for trading
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| Ale of the Riverwards |
Ed Coffey |
Sour and lambic brewing, beta tester for The Yeast Bay
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| Alpha Wolf Brewery |
Craig Wolf |
Yeast wrangling/hunting/slanting
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| Bikes Beer & Adventures |
Jeffrey Crane |
Professional brewer with sour homebrewing recipes using mixed fermentations, bottle dregs, and one gallon batches
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| BKYeast |
Dmitri |
PhD in Cell Biology; yeast culturing and isolation from commercial sours; maintains a yeast bank
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| Embrace The Funk |
Brandon Jones |
Professional brewer, extensive barrel information, sour brewing information, and pH readings of commercial sour beers
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| Lambic and Wild Ale |
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Emphasis on lambic brewing and historical information about lambic/flanders brewing in Belgium
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| Ryan Brews |
Ryan |
Yeast culturing, experimental homebrewing, and sour brewing emphasis
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| Sour Beer and Wild Yeast |
Bryan Doty |
Amateur biologist focused on culturing and experimenting with cultures
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| Bear Flavored |
Derek Dellinger |
Wide variety of fermentation information
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| Bootleg Biology |
Jeff Mello |
Company that sells the DIYest kit for culturing wild yeast; maintains a yeast bank; how-to information for plate streaking, yeast management, etc.
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| Brew Science - Homebrewing Blog |
Jason Rodriguez |
Scientist turned homebrewer; scientific experiments with Brettanomyces and general brewing techniques; maintains a yeast bank
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| Hors Catégorie Brewing |
Dave Janssen |
A Chemist who specializes in brewing clean and funky saisons
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| Eureka Brewing |
Sam |
Scientist who isolates and experiments with wild yeasts and bacterias; has a yeast bank that testers have access to
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| Fermentology |
James |
Good section on wild brewing recipes and 100% Brett recipes, as well as yearly barrel aged sours and blends.
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| Microbus Brewery |
Rob |
General homebrewing blog that includes some sour brewing
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| DC Yeast Lab |
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Yeast culturing and banking
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| Compare Beer |
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Sour brewing experiments and homebrew barrel aging
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| Lewy Brewing |
Lewy |
Large collection of interesting homebrews, including sour dregs beers and 100% Brett fermentations
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| Small Place Big Brews |
Don |
Sour brewing including fruit lambics and blending
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| HophenTreader |
Joseph Lemnah |
Sour section with an emphasis on fruit and spices
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| Meta Brewing |
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Smaller section of Brett and sour brewing
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| Dank Brewing Co. |
Nick Pederson |
Extensive sour, wild, and experimental brewing; opening a brewery
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| 1227 Brewing |
Jeff |
Section on homebrewing sours
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| Chillindamos |
Sean |
Inspiring homebrew recipes with some sour brewing
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| The Brettanomyces Project |
Chad Yakobson |
Yakobson's dissertation and research on Brettanomyces
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| The Beer Minimum |
Stuart Grant |
Brew log of non-traditional fermentations with an emphasis on inspiration from commercial funky and sour beers
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| Scrappy Hound Brewing |
Patrick Dube |
Solera and Brett homebrewing
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| Larsblog |
Lars Marius Garshol |
Amateur Beer historian; touches on old techniques on farmhouse ales and wild yeast.
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| Fry Brews |
Mark Fry |
General homebrewing blog that includes some detailed sour brewing logs.
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| Five Blades Brewing |
Derek Springer |
A series on Sour Mashing, which was presented at NHC 2015.
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| American Lambic |
Matthew Flickinger |
A blog dedicated to sour homebrewing, including blending and barrel information, and long term experiments.
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| Kilned Brewing |
Evan Cooper |
Solera and sour brewing, as well as microbe culturing and microscopy.
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| Beer By Bart (sour beer tag) |
Steve Shapiro and Gail Ann Williams |
Includes details on Gail's sour brewing with spaghetti as per her interview with BasicBrewing.
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| Hive Mind Mead |
David Doucette |
Sour homebrewing, including fermenting mead with bacteria and Brett cultures.
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| The South House Pilot Brewery |
Kyle Kohlmorgen |
NHC presenter; blog focused on sour and funky brewing.
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| The Farmhouse Obsession |
Andrew "Gus" Addkison |
Focus on Saison and Farmhouse brewing.
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| BeerMark (Sour tag) |
Matthew Riggs |
Sour section of his blog, including wild yeast capturing.
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| Farmhouse Beer Blog |
Topher Boehm |
Focused on farmhouse brewing; information and interviews of farmhouse breweries in the US and Europe.
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| Meek Brewing Co. |
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Sour, saison, and Brett brewing.
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| Basement Brew Lab Blog |
Dustin Metzger |
Intergeneric hybridization experiment using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Brettanomyces bruxellensis.
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| Beezy Brews |
Adam Boura |
Homebrewer out of Pittsburgh, PA; funky, sour, and saison homebrewing.
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| Lo-Fi Brews |
Stefano Ricci |
Homebrewer from Italy. Blog is written in Italian.
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| Amber Waves Brewing |
Gabriel Gullbergh |
Homebrewing blog on sour and funky beers, attaining a 'terrior' using foraging/local ingredients, and fermented funky foods.
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| End Of Silence Brewing |
Justin Bruce |
Sour/wild section of a homebrew blog that focuses on sour brewing, blending, wild yeast culturing, and BJCP competition results.
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| Suregork Loves Beer |
Kristoffer Krogerus |
Homebrewing with an emphasis on biotechnology, DNA analysis, and microbiology.
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| Beer Diary |
Ethan Tripp |
Insights into solera and lambic-style spontaneous fermentation.
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| Dry Brewing Yeasts for Sour Ales blog |
Barrett Tillman |
Barrett of Dry Yeast for Sour Ales BlackManYeast homebrewing blog section focused on wild brewing.
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| In Bounds Brewing |
Dan |
Advanced Homebrew blog which includes articles on homebrewed lambic.
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| BrewMinds |
Jhon Campbell |
Experimentional homebrews with probiotics and wild meads.
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| Woodsbrewing - Homebrewing Experiments |
David Woods |
A homebrewer documenting his journey into sour brewing.
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| Gremlyn's Beer Blog |
Colin Burton |
A homebrewer souring with wild caught microbes to create a solera.
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