Hi
Inspired by
Jeff Cranes presentation at NHC 2015 I will be doing a talk at my homebrewing club on monday along similar lines. Jeff started his talk with demonstrating the effect of blending an acid beer with a saison, which I thought worked really well. I brewed a saison to do this but it turned out very fruity and estery and so isn't a good candidate for this (I have tried it). In any case I thought it might be more interesting to try blending the acid beer with other styles. The ideas I have so far are:
Irish Stout (given the belief \ history that some sour blending occurred with guinness)
Belgian Dubbel - might approach a flanders red to some degree
Saison - as per Jeff's demo (commercial example, not mine)
Can anyone suggest another style \ example that might be fun to experiment with? I'm in the UK so obscure US beers might be hard to source..
My acid beer turned out pretty good, I used L. brevis and brett (sacch) b trois. For the first few months there was a definite strong and quite unpleasant barnyard aroma but it has calmed down now with clean acidity, a bit of funk and is nice and clear.
cheers
steve