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...
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...
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...
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...
by Cale "Sour Brew" Baker | Jun 7, 2016 | Berliner Weisse, Brewing & Homebrewing, Fast Souring, Fast Souring, Recipe Design, Sour Beer Articles
Howdy Sour Beer Fans! Funky and sour beers have been gaining momentum for quite some time now. But for all the barrel aged sours and delicious Brettanomyces laced saisons: where have all the Berliner Weisses gone? To my surprise there are less than twenty widely...
by Dr. Lambic | Apr 21, 2016 | Brewing & Homebrewing, Classic Components of Sour Beer Flavor, Sour Beer Articles
Hello Sour Beer Friends! Today I would like to discuss an important family of compounds responsible for many of the appealing aromas and flavors found within sour beers: Esters. Recently, Cale and I were brewing a round of golden and red sours to serve as blending...
