For my traditional sour ale I am choosing to brew a gose. I'm choosing a gose because when it comes to traditional, this is a very traditional german sour ale. I'm also picking this style because I rather enjoy it as well.

Starting with my malt choices: When brewing a traditional gose you want to have half of your matl split between Pilsner and Wheat malt. So i've chosen those two malts at 4lb's each making up 95.2% of the grain bill. I have also added 0.4lb's of Acidulated malt. I added Acidulated malt to help lower the pH since we are going to want it to be lower than a normal ale.

My Hop additions I chose because I wanted to use a German Bittering Hop. I'm using very little because I wanted to keep the IBU's low and in range for the Gose style.

I chose my yeast as German Ale Yeast because I want this to ferment out nice and clean. I plan to ferment it out in about 5-7 days, then allow to condition so I can add some kind of fruit in secondary. If i'm choosing now, I would like to do blackberries.

Some special steps in this brew that i'm doing is that i'm going to mash and lauter how I normally would, but would only boil the wort for 10 minutes and then I would transfer to an empty fermenter and add Wild Brew Sour pitch which is classiffied as Lactobacillus plantarum, a facultative hetero-fermentative strain.. This will drop the pH in the time that I want it to, it will also give my wort a citrus and tangy taste and produce the lactic acid I need to lower the pH to acceptable levels. This should get my pH to a level between 3.2-3.5.

If I brew this beer on March 20, 2020. I would expect it to be ready to drink by the second week of April.