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 | 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...
by Dr. Lambic | Apr 9, 2015 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Boulevard Brewing
Hello Sour Beer Friends! I recently had my first opportunity to drink a sour beer from Boulevard Brewing Company of Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to being a big-time sour fan, I am also very fond of the diverse range of beers that fall under saison style and I...
by Dr. Lambic | Mar 28, 2015 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Dry Hopped Sour, New Belgium Brewing
Hello Sour Beer Friends! The past month has been both a busy and exciting time for yours truly. A few weeks ago, my partner and I enjoyed our third annual vacation to Aruba and I am happy to share that we returned home engaged! Since our trip, I have been brewing...
by Cale "Sour Brew" Baker | Mar 25, 2015 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Jester King
Howdy Sour Beer Fans! While hanging out with Dr. Lambic and a few others during an epic night of sour tasting, I was treated to a bottle of Jester King’s Aurelian Lure. This is the third fruit sour offering I’ve had from Jester King, which brews in Austin,...
by Dr. Lambic | Mar 3, 2015 | Sour Beer Articles
Hello Sour Beer Friends, I recently wrote a guest article for the Memphis Craft Beer website. The article talks about the history of sour beers and how the American craft beer culture has not only embraced the sour and the funky, but has pushed these beers to new...
by Dr. Lambic | Feb 28, 2015 | Kriek, Lindemans
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Many craft and sour beer fans who live in the United States, myself included, experience their first taste of a lambic beer by trying one of Lindemans’ sweetened fruit lambics. Lindemans is a seventh generation lambic brewery located in...
by Dr. Lambic | Feb 15, 2015 | Anderson Valley, Gose
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Over the past year, more creative American craft breweries have begun experimenting with the classic German sour beer styles of Gose and Berliner Weisse than ever before. As a sour beer fan, I find this trend to be exciting because not only...
