Posts Tagged: Sour Beer Studies
About Oaked Beer: Perseguidor 2006, Jolly Pumpkin, Michigan
Posted by on Saturday, October 4, 2008 in - 1 comment
This beer crosses a lot of categories: oaked, aged, sour and from a state that looks like a mitten. I picked this 2006 edition of Perseguidor from Ron when I spent an hour with him a year ago, probably my beery highlight of 2007 now that I think of it. • BAer's lavish love - though they lament …
Belgium: Pannepot GR '05, De Struise / Deca, W' Vleteren
Posted by on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 in - 1 comment
I must have been very good today as this is the bottle I decided to open. I mowed the half the lawn. And I held the fort at my desk with a certain style. I'll likely even keep the empty as it even has the mark of importers Roland + Russell, the kind folks who forwarded this sample. • But, you …
Session 19: One More New Beer From Germany
Posted by on Friday, September 5, 2008 in - 2 comments
I think this is just gold. Today, The Session, the monthly celebration of one theme by beer bloggers all around the globe...was forgotten by The Barley Blog: • I need to pay attention to my own blog announcements — I forgot that today was Session #19. Well, I didn’t really forget about the date …
Sour Beer Studies: Oude Kriek Vieille, Oud Beersel, Belgium
Posted by on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 in - leave a comment
What better for apres mow than a sour beer? I mowed and now I am owed. I don't see it mentioned in Great Beers of Belgium so maybe this actually is a lawnmower dry kriek. • Oud Beersel's kriek pours as deep a blood red as any I've had. It sits under a vibrant pink cream head. On the nose there … read more »
Jolly Pumpkin Lambic Coming Along Nicely But Awfully Quietly
Posted by on Sunday, April 6, 2008 in - 6 comments
...is it in that one...or that one...? • When I read all the buzz this winter about Allagash's worthy lambic project, I was left scratching my head a little given that Ron at Jolly Pumpkin indicated to me last fall that their own lambic experimentation had started over three years ago and would …
Sour Beer Studies: Oude Kriek, Drie Fonteinen, Beersel, BE
Posted by on Thursday, March 27, 2008 in - leave a comment
Great hopes for this one after Michael Jackson calls this one "very fruity" and "great" in Gee-Bee-Oh-Bee. No need for punishing austerity tonight. No need for the beery equivalent of the strap as an educational tool. Not when one can hope for something of a repeat of that De Ranke Kriek. • This …
Sour Beer Studies: Kriek 100% Lambic, Cantillon, Brussels
Posted by on Friday, March 21, 2008 in - 2 comments
I shared with one to the shock and dismay of my guests two years ago but I've grown up so much since then I thought I would revisit it to see what I thought. Back then I use the word poo which seemed to tick off a crank. Apparently some who write "barnyard" have never been in a barnyard. Let's see …
Sour Beer Studies: Gueuze, Girardin, Sint-Ulkis-Kapelle, BE
Posted by on Thursday, February 21, 2008 in - 4 comments
The 2006 edition of Great Beers of Belgium showed up today and I thought that I had better pop a cork in its honour. A Girardin Gueuze seemed just the thing. The "1882" on the label is the date when the current family took over the brewery and they brew comprehensively, perhaps still with no other …
Belgium: Oerbier, De Dolle Brouwers, Esen
Posted by on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 in - 3 comments
For all the big talk, I really have only scratched the surface of beer...if you could, you know, scratch a fluid. This is my first De Dolle Brouwers, whose history and directions web page gives a sense of their attitude: they are a wee bit mad. But good mad. • Oerbier was apparently their … read more »
Sour Beer Studies: Madrugada Obscura, Jolly Pumpkin, MI
Posted by on Saturday, November 17, 2007 in - 1 comment
A Michigan beer got the big game at the Big House...and what a big beer it is - a tangy sour stout weighing in at 8.1%. This is what I expect when I get an old school porter and is not unlike a badly handled Burton Bridge porter I had once in 2001. I have a 2006 and 2007 Burton Bridge in the stash …
