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Originally Posted by Nickshu
Is the above considered a sour? My understanding of sours is they are a regular beer (brown ale, etc) that is aged in retired red wine casks for 1-4 years to absorb the flavor of the wood/red wine...this makes no two sour batches the same. There is nothing fruity about the Sours that I have had so far.
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Sours typically have very little hops character and are infected with lactobacillis and other bacteria that eat residual unfermented sugars and make acid and tasty flavors.
Many commercial sours - especially the lindemans lambics - add fruit. I prefer the unadulterated product. Your tastes may vary. That's what is fun about the sours - there's a big range out there and they don't dogmatically stick to one particular style.