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Sour Mash Brewing

amcn

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I made up a batch of crystal malt this weekend and I saved and boiled the water the malt was soaking in and ended up with a pint of sour-mash wort.... and wow it is sour.

I was thinking of brewing up a batch of Irish Stout, splitting into two and adding the sour wort to one batch and testing the results.

The sour-wort would be about 3% of the batch total.

Does anyone have any advice on this? or a better idea to do something with it? Like pour it away before I poison myself, for instance???
 
I tried overnight mashing once.
Ended up with some sour mash, but I went ahead and brewed it anyways.

It ended up going down the drain.

I say try it. Beer has been around forever because it has historically been safer than water. 
You won't poison yourself.  At worst you'll get atomic shits, but you wont' die. Go for it.

 
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