by Dr. Lambic | Oct 12, 2014 | Drie Fonteinen, Framboise, Kriek, Special Releases
Hello Sour Beer Friends, Last weekend I had a group of friends over for one of my favorite activities… A night of drinking excellent sour beers! One of these fantastic beers, and a beer I have been very excited to try, was Hommage by Drie Fonteinen. Hommage is a...
by Dr. Lambic | Sep 12, 2014 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Upright Brewing
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Over the weekend my friend Cale and I took a day to brew wort to enter into our sour beer blending program. As is the case with any proper homebrewing day, we took the opportunity to drink a few sour beers to share with you, our acidity...
by Dr. Lambic | Sep 12, 2014 | Farmhouse Ale, Hill Farmstead, Sour Farmhouse Ale
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Today I bring you a review of a very tasty sour farmhouse ale named Arthur, by Hill Farmstead Brewery of Greensboro, Vermont. Operated by Sean Hill on the site of his family’s farm, Hill Farmstead is my definition of the archetypal rural...
by Dr. Lambic | Sep 1, 2014 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, The Rare Barrel
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Personally, I get pretty excited when I hear of a new brewery being planned that will focus entirely on sour beer. As a listener of The Brewing Network, this was the case several years ago when I first heard of The Rare Barrel, of Berkley, CA....
by Dr. Lambic | Aug 26, 2014 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Pizza Boy Brewing Company
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Today I had the chance to swing by Pizza Boy Brewing in Enola, PA and try a brand new beer from their sour program. Bleurbon Berry is a blueberry sour aged in a bourbon barrel. A creation of head brewer Terry Hawbaker, Bleuron Berry is based...
by Dr. Lambic | Aug 15, 2014 | Gose, Westbrook
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Today I bring you a review on something you don’t see everyday: Sour beer in a can! Over the past few months, I have seen the instagram world buzzing with activity around Westbrook Gose, so I was very excited to find a can included as...
by Dr. Lambic | Aug 14, 2014 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Cascade Brewing
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Last Saturday night, I was hanging out with some of my sour inclined friends and decided to crack open a few beers to enjoy and share with you. The first of these was a beer I have been excited to try for some time, Noyaux by Cascade Brewing...
by Dr. Lambic | Aug 8, 2014 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, The Bruery
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Two evenings ago, my friend Carlo invited my boyfriend and I to join him at his family’s restaurant to taste a recipe he was developing for an article to be featured here on Sour Beer Blog. Not one to pass up an opportunity to drink...
by Dr. Lambic | Jul 29, 2014 | Castle Brewery Van Honsebrouck, Gueuze
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Following up my recent review of Goose Island’s barrel aged blackberry sour, Juliet, I would like to share with you another very nice sour beer I drank last Friday night. St. Louis Gueuze Fond Tradition is a lambic gueuze produced by...
by Dr. Lambic | Jul 28, 2014 | Ask Dr. Lambic, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Off-Flavors
Hello Sour Beer Brewers! This installment of Ask Dr. Lambic tackles the topic of off-flavor development in sour brewing and whether beers with such flavors can be used as blending stock. I would like to thank Dave from Fort Collins, CO for sending his question in and...
