Boulevard Brewing Love Child No. 6 Sour Ale
The sixth bottling in the Love Child series represents a bit of a departure from previous releases. Starting at the beginning, Love Child beers have a blend of soured Bourbon Barrel Quad and a Flanders-style sour red aged in previously used whiskey barrels. The base beer for Love Child No. 6 is a strong Belgian-style blonde ale. Following primary fermentation with Boulevard’s house Belgian yeast strain, the beer was transferred into previously used wine barrels and stainless vessels and inoculated with lactobacillus and brettanomyces. At the end of 18 months, brewing and quality teams met to taste samples from wine barrels and stainless aging tanks to create the blend. After tasting and tinkering, they finalized a blend composed of 70% wine barrel aged beer and 30% stainless aged beer.
