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Powell’s Wildberry Kveik

Powell’s Wildberry Kveik

by Dr. Lambic | Oct 4, 2017 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Educational Articles, Events, Recipe Design, Special Releases

  Hello Sour Beer Friends! I have had a busy spring and summer working on opening my own brewery.  After a half-year hiatus, it feels good to “saddle up” and get back to writing about the good, the sour, and the funky once again.  Today’s...
Dr. Lambic Is Opening A Brewery!

Dr. Lambic Is Opening A Brewery!

by Dr. Lambic | Mar 6, 2017 | Events, Mellow Mink Brewing, My Stories

Hello Sour Beer Friends! I don’t often do much actual “blogging” on Sour Beer Blog, but today I’m excited to make an exception to discuss a new project in my life: I’m opening a brewery! During my years as a homebrewer, I’ve always...
A Guide To Blending Sour Beer With Fruit

A Guide To Blending Sour Beer With Fruit

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...
Jester King Spon 2016 Méthode Gueuze – Tasting and Interview

Jester King Spon 2016 Méthode Gueuze – Tasting and Interview

by Dr. Lambic | Dec 30, 2016 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Jester King, Méthode Gueuze, Spontaneous Fermentation

Hello Sour Beer Friends! The lambic beers of Belgium, and more specifically Oude Gueuze blends, have always held a special place in my heart and mind.  In my pre-brewing years, the flavors of Hanssens Oude Gueuze sparked my love for sour beers as a whole.  Lambic...
The Sour Beer Brewday

The Sour Beer Brewday

by Dr. Lambic | Dec 6, 2016 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Educational Articles, Hot Side Processes, Ingredients, Processes / Techniques, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles, Turbid Mashing

Hello Sour Brewers! When thinking about the creation of sour and farmhouse beers, a number of images such as rows of oak foudres, Brettanomyces pellicles, and sampling glasses being filled from a barrel head often come to mind.  To these styles, there’s no...
The Rare Barrel: Brewery Profile, Interview, and Tasting

The Rare Barrel: Brewery Profile, Interview, and Tasting

by Dr. Lambic | Nov 8, 2016 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Barrel Cleaning and Maintenance, Brewing & Homebrewing, Sour Beer Articles, The Rare Barrel

Hello Sour Beer Friends, Those of you who listen to the sour beer and brewing podcast The Sour Hour will know that from time to time I have had the pleasure of being interviewed on the show.  If you haven’t tuned into the live show or downloaded the podcast...
The Complete Guide To Brewing After The Zombie Apocalypse

The Complete Guide To Brewing After The Zombie Apocalypse

by Dr. Lambic | Oct 13, 2016 | Brewing & Homebrewing

Hello Survivors! We always had a feeling that this day would come…  Some well-meaning sour brewer was trying to milk the funk too hard… trying to use phage viruses to splice lactic acid genes into a strain of Brettanomyces and BAM…  Zombies...
Dr. Lambic’s Guide to Brewing Your First Sour Beer

Dr. Lambic’s Guide to Brewing Your First Sour Beer

by Dr. Lambic | Sep 4, 2016 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Dr. Lambic's "Three Step" Approach, Sour Beer Articles

(This article was originally written as a guest article for a startup hobby website.  That site is no longer in existence, so I have reposted the original article back to our site.) Hello Homebrewers! As recently as a decade ago, sour beers were a relatively obscure...
Fundamentals of Sour Beer Fermentation

Fundamentals of Sour Beer Fermentation

by Dr. Lambic | Aug 29, 2016 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Dr. Lambic's "Three Step" Approach, Fermentation, Mixed Fermentation, Sour Beer Articles, Spontaneous Fermentation

Hello Sour Brewers, Earlier this year, I announced that I would like to focus several of the educational articles published during 2016 on Sour Beer Blog to topics related to the creation of complex, long aged, sour beers.  While I love the versatility and simplicity...
HomeBrewCon 2016 – Sour Beer Brewlogs

HomeBrewCon 2016 – Sour Beer Brewlogs

by Dr. Lambic | Jun 8, 2016 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Events

Hello Sour Homebrewers! When I write articles for Sour Beer Blog, I tend not to write about my individual sour beer projects or brew days.  I’ve always felt that since my readers cannot easily taste any given beer that I may be brewing, the exact details of my...
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Welcome To Sour Beer Blog!

Sour Beer Blog is a website dedicated to one of the world’s most unique beverages: Sour Beer!

Sour Beer Blog

A website about sour beers, farmhouse ales, and funky fermentations. This website features in-depth educational articles on sour beer and brewing targeted toward both hobbyist and professional brewers.

About Dr. Lambic

I am a passionate sour beer enthusiast and professional brewer with a doctorate in pharmacy and a background in microbiology and organic chemistry. My goal in creating and maintaining this site is to both educate brewers and celebrate a wonderful and unique world full of sour beers. Cheers!
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