by Dr. Lambic | Feb 22, 2017 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Off-Flavors
Hello Sour Brewers! Fruit and beer have long had a relationship which extends through history to the earliest known fermented beverages. Keeping with this tradition, it seems that it would be a rare homebrewer who has never experienced the urge to incorporate some...
by Dr. Lambic | Apr 15, 2016 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Mixed Fermentation, Sour Beer Articles, Upland Brewing
Hello Sour Beer Friends! This past month marked the second anniversary of our first post on Sour Beer Blog! Over these two years, the American sour beer scene has experienced record breaking growth both in the number and quality of sour beers being produced. When...
by Dr. Lambic | Feb 5, 2016 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Dry-Hopping, Educational Articles, Off-Flavors, Sour Beer Articles
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Over the past two years, the popularity of craft brewed American sour beers has skyrocketed and a plethora of new sours have been introduced to the market. The fact that a high percentage of these have been of the fast / kettle soured variety...
by Dr. Lambic | Aug 2, 2015 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Dry-Hopping, Educational Articles, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Drinkers of wine and tea will likely be familiar with a broad class of organic biomolecules known as tannins. Nearly ubiquitous amongst plant species, tannins are large molecules which are stored inside special organelles within a variety of...
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 | Dec 20, 2014 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, Adding Oak Character, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Dr. Lambic's "Three Step" Approach, Educational Articles, Kriek, Lambic, Off-Flavors, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles
Understanding, Brewing, and Blending a Lambic Style Kriek Hello Sour Beer Friends! Of all the wonderful sour beer styles produced, the group I have always gravitated toward are the fruit lambics of Belgium, specifically Oude Kriek. One of my goals since becoming a...