Posts Tagged: Sour Beer Studies
Sour Beer Studies: Oudbeitje Lambic, Hanssens, Belgium
Posted by on Friday, June 15, 2007 in - leave a comment
Oddly, a 750 ml label on a 375 ml bottle. The brewer tells us that this is a strawberry lambic, with the fruit sitting in the beer from one summer to the next spring. The importer gives a proportion of 1 kg of strawberries to every 4 litres. BAers warn that this is extremely sour but upon opening …
Sour Beer Studies: Barriquée, Panil, Parma, Italy
Posted by on Thursday, June 7, 2007 in - 8 comments
A few weeks or maybe months ago I received an email from a reader asking that I do not use the "Week Of..." format anymore as RSS could not deal with a constantly growing post. I resisted the idea but the more I thought about it, the more I thought that perhaps in addition to the RSS issues, the" …
Which Is The Mildest Cantillon?
Posted by on Saturday, March 17, 2007 in - 18 comments
Attentive readers will know I have not enjoyed Cantillon's sour beers but that I do love Finger Lake Beverages in Ithaca, NY. Well, I am down here again and will load up tomorrow for the spring's tastings and noticed yesterday that FLB has a good range of these sour things in stock. • Which - if …
Do We Love The Beer Or Brewer?
Posted by on Saturday, February 24, 2007 in - 11 comments
Lew has written another segment of his unfolding manifesto on his relationship to craft beer and the craft beer industry and triggered a long discussion. I take this as his key point: • I have to tell you, this kind of "let's treat craft beer with kid gloves" stuff has been bugging me for years …
Belgium: Bruocsella 1900 Grand Cru, Cantillon
Posted by on Friday, November 24, 2006 in - 8 comments
Gold amber ale under large frothier lazy rim and foam that quickly fades then leaves town. The smell is beyond brett. The unripe Annapolis Valley Gravenstein green apple of my Nova Scotian youth gone mad with aspirations of manure pile. Quite plainly watery at the outset then acid and more …
Assorted Low Country Fruit Beers
Posted by on Friday, June 30, 2006 in - 2 comments
What better way to see in Canada Day weekend than sampling Belgian and northern French fruit beers. There is no rhyme or reason to the selection other than they are from within a couple of hundred kilometres of each other. Should this breaks rules it is because no one sent me the pamphlet with the …
Belgium: Goudenband, Brouwerij Liefmans, Oudenaarde
Posted by on Thursday, April 20, 2006 in - leave a comment
Light tan foam over fairly lively chestnut ale, this Flemish oud bruin has a tangy vinegary sweet aroma. This beer is far less sharp than my previous Flemish experiences of this sort from Rodenbach Grand Cru yet bigger than the other Flem I have known Petrus Oud Bruin. There is a creaminess with …
Belgium: Six Lambics
Posted by on Monday, August 15, 2005 in - 17 comments
There are a few times my good wife is very pleased with this hobby. One is when there is Guinness in the house and one is when there are lambics. These historic vestiges of a Belgian need to capture summer fruit are made without added yeast...because the valley of the Senne is loaded with airborn …
Two of the Gueuze
Posted by on Saturday, April 9, 2005 in - 2 comments
So, I am sent to the LCBO the other day in search of a flask o' plonk and I am thinking how useless the organizations' beer policies are as they appear to have stopped even providing their quarterly new seasonal selections. The last time new beers showed up was in late November. Sad state of …
