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New Belgium Le Terroir

New Belgium Le Terroir

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...
Jester King Aurelian Lure

Jester King Aurelian Lure

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,...
Russian River Beatification

Russian River Beatification

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,...
Almanac Cerise Sour Blond

Almanac Cerise Sour Blond

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...
Crooked Stave Wild Wild Brett Batch 60

Crooked Stave Wild Wild Brett Batch 60

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...
Wicked Weed Black Angel

Wicked Weed Black Angel

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...
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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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