Fairwater Brewery

Rhubarb & Gooseberry Sour

Part of the bundle I received when getting the old chest freezer from my in-laws for my keezer build was a large quntity of frozen fruit, which is now occupying a large amount of space in our freezers. This is mainly rhubarb, gooseberry, and backcurrants. Sounds like a lot of sour beer will be in this year's brew schedule!

First off, and using a kilo each of rhubarb and gooseberry, is this recipe. I did a 12l batch last year that went down really well, so this is a scale-up to my normal brew length.

Looking back as I'm writing this up, I used a kilo of each in the 12l batch, so I'm not too sure why I didn't scale the fruit up any for this longer brew... silly me.

Here's the recipe.

Updated 2026-05-10: I kegged this a couple of days ago, and it's tasting really good.