Category: Off-Flavors

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 | 10

Hello Sour Brewers! Fruit and beer have long had a relationship which extends through history to...

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Sour Beer Blending

by Dr. Lambic | Feb 5, 2016 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Dry-Hopping, Educational Articles, Off-Flavors, Sour Beer Articles | 3

Hello Sour Beer Friends! Over the past two years, the popularity of craft brewed American sour...

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Lactobacillus 2.0 – Advanced Techniques for Fast Souring Beer

by Dr. Lambic | Nov 18, 2015 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Educational Articles, Fast Souring, Fast Souring, Off-Flavors, Sour Beer Articles, Starters & Microbe Culturing | 106

Hello Sour Brewers! Last December when I published our article on Fast Souring with Lactobacillus,...

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Designing and Brewing a Flanders Red Ale

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 | 19

Hello Sour Brewers! For those of you who, like myself, participate in Facebook, Reddit, or other...

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Understanding, Brewing, and Blending a Lambic Style Kriek

by Dr. Lambic | Dec 20, 2014 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, Adding Oak Character, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Dr. Lambic's "Three Step" Approach, Educational Articles, Kriek, Lambic, Off-Flavors, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles | 17

Understanding, Brewing, and Blending a Lambic Style Kriek Hello Sour Beer Friends! Of all the...

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Fast Souring with Lactobacillus

by Dr. Lambic | Dec 20, 2014 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Educational Articles, Fast Souring, Fast Souring, Off-Flavors, Sour Beer Articles | 85

Fast Souring with Lactobacillus – Best Practices, Sensory, & Science Hello Sour Brewers!...

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Brewing a Gose

by Cale "Sour Brew" Baker | Dec 10, 2014 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Educational Articles, Fast Souring, Fast Souring, Gose, Off-Flavors, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles | 22

Howdy Sour Beer Fans! It’s been awhile since your pal Sour Brew has posted an article. This...

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Ask Dr. Lambic – Blending Out an Off Flavor

by Dr. Lambic | Jul 28, 2014 | Ask Dr. Lambic, Blending, Brewing & Homebrewing, Off-Flavors | 1

Hello Sour Beer Brewers! This installment of Ask Dr. Lambic tackles the topic of off-flavor...

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Sour Beers at the National Homebrewers Conference 2014

by Dr. Lambic | Jun 27, 2014 | Adding Fruit to Sour Beer, Berliner Weisse, Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Educational Articles, Off-Flavors, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles, Sour Red Ale | 0

Hello Sour Beer Brewers! Two weeks ago my friends and I had the opportunity to attend the American...

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Ask Dr. Lambic – Brewing a Berliner Weisse

by Dr. Lambic | Apr 18, 2014 | Ask Dr. Lambic, Berliner Weisse, Brewing & Homebrewing, Educational Articles, Fast Souring, Off-Flavors, Recipe Design | 39

Hello Sour Beer Friends! Once I decided to create this blog, one of the ideas that I have been...

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