by Dr. Lambic | Jan 3, 2016 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Draai Laag Brewing Co
Happy New Year Sour Beer Friends! Recently I had the opportunity to taste my first beer from Draai Laag Brewing Company of Millvale, Pennsylvania. Residing in a suburb of Pittsburgh, the relatively small Draai Laag (pronounced “Dry Log”) brewery and pub...
by Dr. Lambic | Sep 5, 2015 | Mikkeller, Other Fruit Lambic
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Today I would like to share a tasting of two beers from Mikkeller’s spontaneously fermented series: Spontanwhitegrape and Spontanchokeberry. The well-known Danish gypsy brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø began releasing lambic-style...
by Dr. Lambic | Aug 26, 2015 | Berliner Weisse, Burley Oak
Hello Sour Beer Friends! When I visit bottle shops to stock up on beer, I am always on the lookout for new sours that I have yet to try. On just such a beer hunting trip I recently took to Delaware, I happened across a relatively simply labeled bottle called Sour...
by Dr. Lambic | Jun 21, 2015 | Rodenbach, Sour Red Ale
Hello Sour Beer Friends! In a follow up to my recent article on Flanders Red Ales, today I would like to share with you a tasting of Rodenbach Caractère Rouge, a specialty Flanders Red blended with cranberries, raspberries, and cherries. While the Rodenbach brewery...
by Dr. Lambic | May 18, 2015 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, Adding Oak Character, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Educational Articles, Mixed Fermentation, Off-Flavors, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles, Sour Red Ale
Hello Sour Brewers! For those of you who, like myself, participate in Facebook, Reddit, or other online forums that discuss craft beer, you will have inevitably seen someone post the question: “What is the best sour beer for a new sour beer drinker to...
by Dr. Lambic | Apr 23, 2015 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Dry Hopped Sour, Prairie Artisan Ales
Hello Sour Beer Friends! As many of you know, I’ve been on a dry-hopped sour beer kick recently. Following a tasting of New Belgium’s delicious Le Terroir and the recent bottling of my own dry-hopped blueberry & blackberry sour, I had the opportunity...
