anecdotal advice needed - sour and non-sour barrels safe relative proximity

[spacecoyote]

I am of the opinion that without sealed rooms, applied positive pressure, and strict temperature control, it would be inadvisable to store fermenting sour barrels anywhere near non-sour aging barrels.

I'm looking for anyone to relate stories of success and failure of barrel programs where the sour and non-sour barrels were stored close to one another.

Cheers.

[Natrat]

We store beer in sour and non-sour barrels side by side.
3 years in, no problems. Yet.

does that help? I don't think the bugs are as volatile as all that. Proper barrel care is essential to a successful barrel program, though. If I had my druthers, I'd store the sours in another location, but that isn't in the cards right now.

Nat