/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Pic is a fouder. They are basically giant barrels/wooden tanks that come in many shapes and sizes. Typically used for mass aging or fermenting a whole bunch of sour/mixed fermentation beers at once. The benefit of a fouder over barrels is that because all of the beer is being aged/fermented in one vessel, the entire batch will have much more consistency than using multiple smaller wine-style barrels. I think they are very sexy and I would love to play around with one at work but they are usually crazy expensive to buy and ship.