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Cantillon Kriek 100% Lambic Bio

Cantillon Kriek 100% Lambic Bio

by Dr. Lambic | Jan 25, 2015 | Cantillon, Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Kriek

Hello Sour Beer Friends! Many of you who follow my articles will probably already know that I am a huge fan of the oude kriek lambic style.  There is something about the interplay between the high acidity, bright fruit flavors, and layers upon layers of Brettanomyces...
Oude Quetsche Tilquin à l’ancienne

Oude Quetsche Tilquin à l’ancienne

by Dr. Lambic | Jan 21, 2015 | Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Gueuzerie Tilquin, Other Fruit Lambic

Hello Sour Beer Friends! Today I’m happy to write about the first beer from Gueuzerie Tilquin to appear on the site: Tilquin Oude Quetsche.  When they released their original batch of gueuze in May of 2011, Gueuzerie Tilquin was the first new lambic blendery to...
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...
Hanssens Oude Kriek

Hanssens Oude Kriek

by Cale "Sour Brew" Baker | Jan 5, 2015 | Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Hanssen's Artisanaal, Kriek

Howdy Sour Beer Fans! I recently had the chance to taste a favorite of mine, Hanssens Oude Kriek.   I often drink gueuze and kriek from these outstanding blenders but just realized there was no review of Hanssens Oude Kriek posted to the site.  Well, don’t worry! ...
Armand 4 Winter Gueuze

Armand 4 Winter Gueuze

by Dr. Lambic | Dec 29, 2014 | Armand 4 Series, Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Drie Fonteinen, Gueuze

Hello Sour Beer Friends! Winter is upon us on the east coast of the United States!  This means that, in addition to a variety of tasty sour beers consumed over the holidays, my friends and I have taken the opportunity to open the last bottle in the Armand 4 Seasons...
Jester King Nocturn Chrysalis

Jester King Nocturn Chrysalis

by Dr. Lambic | Dec 15, 2014 | American Sour Beer / Wild Ale, Dr. Lambic's Cellar, Jester King

Hello Sour Beer Friends! I recently had the opportunity to taste my second fruited sour offering from Jester King Brewery of Austin, Texas.  Nocturn Chrysalis is a mature, oak aged, sour red ale which is then blended with blackberries.  In the case of Blend #2, these...
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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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