by Dr. Lambic | Feb 10, 2015 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Gueuze, Russian River
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Over the weekend, a few friends and I dug into our beer fridges and hung out for an evening of good conversation and good sour beer. One of the beers that I was very excited to taste was Beatification by Russian River Brewing of Santa Rosa,...
by Dr. Lambic | Feb 2, 2015 | Almanac Beer Co, American Sour Beer / Wild Ale
Hello Sour Beer Friends! A few nights ago I had a chance to drink a bottle of Cerise Sour Blond, my first beer from Almanac Beer Company of San Fransisco, California. A relatively young brewery, Almanac was founded in 2010 by former homebrewers Jesse Friedman and...
by Dr. Lambic | Jan 25, 2015 | Cantillon, Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Kriek
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Many of you who follow my articles will probably already know that I am a huge fan of the oude kriek lambic style. There is something about the interplay between the high acidity, bright fruit flavors, and layers upon layers of Brettanomyces...
by Dr. Lambic | Jan 21, 2015 | Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Gueuzerie Tilquin, Other Fruit Lambic
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Today I’m happy to write about the first beer from Gueuzerie Tilquin to appear on the site: Tilquin Oude Quetsche. When they released their original batch of gueuze in May of 2011, Gueuzerie Tilquin was the first new lambic blendery to...
by Dr. Lambic | Jan 20, 2015 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Crooked Stave, Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Dry Hopped Sour
Hello Sour Beer Friends! We live in a lush and fertile time for the creation of excellent sour beers, but this landscape of innovation and experimentation has only recently become a reality. If we rewind the clocks by twenty years and look at the sour beer market of...
by Dr. Lambic | Jan 15, 2015 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Wicked Weed
Hello Sour Beer Friends, A few evenings ago, I had the chance to sit down and taste my first sour beer from Wicked Weed Brewing Company of Asheville, North Carolina. Wicked Weed is a relatively new brewery, first opening its doors at the very end of 2012, and has...
by Dr. Lambic | Jan 9, 2015 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Trinity Brewing
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Over the holidays I had a chance to sit down with fellow site author Cale Baker and taste our first beer from Trinity Brewing Company of Colorado Springs, CO. Jason Yester, Trinity’s president and head brewer, opened the small,...
by Cale "Sour Brew" Baker | Jan 5, 2015 | Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Hanssen's Artisanaal, Kriek
Howdy Sour Beer Fans! I recently had the chance to taste a favorite of mine, Hanssens Oude Kriek. I often drink gueuze and kriek from these outstanding blenders but just realized there was no review of Hanssens Oude Kriek posted to the site. Well, don’t worry! ...
by Dr. Lambic | Dec 29, 2014 | Armand 4 Series, Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Drie Fonteinen, Gueuze
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Winter is upon us on the east coast of the United States! This means that, in addition to a variety of tasty sour beers consumed over the holidays, my friends and I have taken the opportunity to open the last bottle in the Armand 4 Seasons...
by Dr. Lambic | Dec 24, 2014 | Allagash, American Sour Beer / Wild Ale
Hello Sour Beer Friends! During a recent sour beer tasting with several authors from the site, I had the opportunity to try Allagash Brewing Company’s sour peach beer Farm To Face. Allagash Brewing, of Portland Maine, was opened in 1995 by its brewmaster and...
