Avondale Brewing is embracing its funkier beers with a tasting room dedicated to them.

The brewery is aiming to open its Sour Room on August 1 - a tasting room entirely dedicated to the unique beers, like barrel aged saisons, sour beers and Brett beers, which are beers made with the Brettanomyces yeast, creating a funky flavor.

"There's not really a whole lot of places around, especially in Alabama, that do these kinds of beers," Brewer Nate Darnell said. "It's just really unique and interesting, working with a lot of wild organisms."

Avondale is aiming to have eight to 10 taps in the Sour Room at a time. About half would be sour, Darnell said.

Darnell said Avondale drew a lot of inspiration from Wicked Weed Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina, which opened its own satellite tasting room devoted to sours in 2014 called the Funkatorium.

The Sour Room will be at 4022 Third Avenue South, the same building as Wasabi Juan's. It'll have an outdoor patio with Bocce. You'll be able to get to it from Avondale's backyard, but it'll be its own space.

The craft brewing industry is still relatively new to Alabama, and sours are even newer in popularity. Darnell said he's unsure how the reception to the concept will go over, but that he's looking forward to educating consumers about sours and other funky beers.

"We're seeing people trending toward these beers, but we're doing it because these are the kinds of beers we love to make," Darnell said. "We're hoping that we make it a little more approachable to people."