What category for a sour saison?

[tgmartin000]

Hi Folks, I'm just getting ready to enter my first sour beer into a contest - the Colorado State Fair.

I have a clone of Jester King's Noble King, which is a 35 IBU sour beer. It's basically pils malt with EKG hops. I know their yeast blend contains 3711 and a bunch of wild bugs.

What category would be most appropriate for this beer? I'm leaning towards belgian specialty - 16E, but was thinking specialty beer (23A) might also be appropriate.

What say ye?

 

[botigol]

16E gets my vote.

 

[Rivenin]

i'd say 16E, it's super close to the style.
Specialty beer is going to have an absolute ****ton of weird beers and your beer may be good, but specialty is more for like a dark mild with raspberries, serano peppers with brett, oak aged and fermented with a blend of belgian and british beers and dry hopped with roses and a shot of brandy in each bottle.... haha

 

[tgmartin000]

Right on, thanks guys. I was hoping for some sort of American Sour category, hopefully they're working on that one.

 

[riceral]

If you have enough to spare and want to possibly increase your chances, why not enter the beer in both categories?

Just a thought.