Bonus: How to Pair Fruited Sours Ales with Craft Chocolate

Sour ales are a fantastic platform for fruit flavors. The acidity of the base beers dovetails with the brightness of the fruit and can help sell the flavors of the fruit more authentically. There are challenges to pairing these beers though, and most of them are related to variability of the beers themselves: there are so many different ways to make a fruited sour ale. In this bonus episode, David Nilsen walks through the different types of fruited sour ale and explains which types of craft chocolate to seek out and which to avoid when pairing with them.

As mentioned in the episode, you can read more about beer fermentation here, or listen to a bonus episode explaining beer fermentation here.

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