by Cale "Sour Brew" Baker | Jun 7, 2016 | Berliner Weisse, Brewing & Homebrewing, Fast Souring, Fast Souring, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles
Howdy Sour Beer Fans! Funky and sour beers have been gaining momentum for quite some time now. But for all the barrel aged sours and delicious Brettanomyces laced saisons: where have all the Berliner Weisses gone? To my surprise there are less than twenty widely...
by Dr. Lambic | Apr 21, 2016 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Sour Beer Articles
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Today I would like to discuss an important family of compounds responsible for many of the appealing aromas and flavors found within sour beers: Esters. Recently, Cale and I were brewing a round of golden and red sours to serve as blending...
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 Carlo Palumbo | Mar 30, 2016 | Beer Reviews, Events, Sour Beer Articles, Tastings
Hello sour beer fans! Sorry you haven’t heard from me in a while. I am still working on my winemaking degree and have been going through the beginning steps to open a winery. I know… How can a sour beer guy can become a pro wine maker? Well there are actually a...
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 | 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 | Nov 18, 2015 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Educational Articles, Fast Souring, Fast Souring, Off-Flavors, Sour Beer Articles, Starters & Microbe Culturing
Hello Sour Brewers! Last December when I published our article on Fast Souring with Lactobacillus, I had hoped that it would provide a useful overview to both hobby and commercial brewers interested in using sour mashing, kettling, or worting techniques. Personally,...
by Dr. Lambic | Oct 11, 2015 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Carbonation & Bottle Conditioning, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Educational Articles, Sour Beer Articles
Hello Sour Beer Friends, I recently attended one of my favorite annual sour beer events, Cantillon Zwanze Day. Zwanze Day, which is held every fall, is a day to celebrate traditional Belgian lambics and the products of the Cantillon brewery. Each year, Cantillon...
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...
