Posts Tagged: Sour Beer Studies
Sour Beer Studies: Pop Quiz - So What Is This Sour Anyway?
Posted by on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 in - 1 comment
Lew Bryson has threatened to turn a discussion he and I and others are having about the use of the word sour - is it a characteristic or a style. So I thought it was about time to post the question here myself...you know...first. • Lew, ever excellently, has taken the specific (a review of New …
Sour Beer Studies: Oro De Calabaza, Jolly Pumpkin, MI, USA
Posted by on Friday, October 26, 2007 in - 5 comments
A busy day today that will hopefully continue but the one point of agreement seems to be Jolly Pumpkin beers and - oh, happy day - I have one in the stash. I have been known to Bam and Oro de Calabaza is the strong golden ale by the same happy gourd of a brewer. • Wow. It's like a cross between …
Sour Beer Studies: Sweet, Sour And...<i>The Brewmaster's Table</i>
Posted by on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 in - leave a comment
I have been a bad beer blogger. I just got a copy of Garrett Oliver's The Brewmaster's Table. One baaad beer blogger. And not bad like ManRam says either. The fact is, I thought it was really more like The Brewmaster's "Kitchen" and had expected it was more like a recipe book. Not that there is …
Sour Beer Studies: Vichtenaar, Verhaeghe, Belgium
Posted by on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 in - 5 comments
Sibling to the more popular Duchesse De Bourgogne, I got this one at Beers of the World in Rochester at the beginning of August. Frankly, I can't believe that it's lasted this long as one thing I am learning from these sour beer studies is that I could be a wee bit obsessed with these Flemish ones …
Sour Beer Studies: Why Did Sour Arise In The First Place?
Posted by on Sunday, September 9, 2007 in - 14 comments
Writing about what is on other people's beer blogs is a quick way to fill a day's obligation to fill up one's own sheet. But seeing as I have been trying to lead Ron Pattinson and his excellent library of brewing records into figuring out stuff that has piqued my idle sort of curiosity, I think it …
The Session: The Brew Zoo
Posted by on Friday, September 7, 2007 in - 2 comments
It is the first Friday of the month and that means it is the day of The Session. Rick Lyke named it this time and chose "The Brew Zoo" demanding we all drink beers with animals on the labels. I forgot this earlier in the week when I popped a Struis with an ostrich on the front. That would have …
Sour Beer Studies: Grand Cru, Brouwerij Rodenbach, Belgium
Posted by on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 in - 6 comments
There's plenty of good stuff down in the stash but I had to think hard about what was the right beer for the Sox and Yanks tonight. I settled on Rodenbach Grand Cru as it is a Flemish Red. I previously reviewed it but that was so 2004 when I thought it was over the top in tartness. Ah...the …
Sour Beer Studies: Gueuze From Cantillon And Hanssens
Posted by on Saturday, August 25, 2007 in - 2 comments
Gueuze. A blend of young and old lambics. I've had some - a couple of sweetened ones from St. Louise and Mort Subite and Lindeman's drier Gueuze Cuvée René. All very pleasant but these two are perhaps on the more...errr...hostile side of dry. But I am here to learn so bear with me. • Before we …
Session 6: One Fruit Beer - Kriek De Ranke, Wevelgem, BE
Posted by on Friday, August 3, 2007 in - leave a comment
Greg had the power for today's version of The Session for August and he picked fruit beer as the topic. To be utterly fair, if you are going to pick this topic, it has to be in August when all the world is plump with the results of all that "tra-la it's May" of a few months ago. • It's not like …
Sour Beer Studies: Gueuze Cuvée René, Lindemans, Belgium
Posted by on Saturday, July 21, 2007 in - leave a comment
I had great concerns about this beer given my whole Cantillon thing and my expectation of mouth puckering sourness. How wrong I was. While it is dry and even assertive in its acidity, this is no lemon. • On the nose there is fright fruit with some pear and berry. The beer pours a slightly cloudy …
