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Sour Beer
Our Sour Beer recipes range from extremely complex traditionally aged Belgian and German wild/sour styles to modern quick or kettle soured beers that are tart and thirst-quenching.
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Flanders Red Ale
Flanders red ales are reddish sour beers aged in oak. With a little technique and a lot of time, you can brew the "Burgundy of Belgium&
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Brewing Belgian-Style Beers: Tips from the Pros
Make the most of your Belgian-style beers with expert advice from the brewers at Ommegang, Allagash and Boulevard.
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Gilligan’s Gueuze (Blended Lambic)
A gueuze is a beer made from blending “old” lambics, up to three years old, with a “new” lambic that has just finished its main ferm
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Berliner Weisse (Napoleon’s Champagne)
The biggest challenge to making a Berliner weisse is making a light, clean base beer, then rapidly souring it with bacteria. You need to sou
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The 10 Hardest Beer Styles to Homebrew
Witbier. Wee Heavey. Tripel. Schwartzbier. Gueze. Eisbock. Dry Stout. Berliner Weisse. American Pilsner – are these the 10 most difficult st
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Brewing Sour Beers: Tips from the Pros
Belgians, barrels and Brett — oh my! Tips from three brewers who are sweet on sour beers.
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Brewing with Brettanomyces (plus some Brett clones)
Learn how to put the "British brewing industry fungus" to work in your home brewery. You don’t need to be a lambic brewer to show
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Jolly Rancher Apple Lambic
Jolly Rancher Apple lambic is a dry, sour beer with the flavor and aroma of Granny Smith apples coming from Jolly Rancher hard candies. This
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Lambic Brewing
Take some wort contaminated with all sorts of microbes, let it “rot” for years and what do you get? One of the most interesting and unique s
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Where the Wild Yeasts Are: Belgian Lambics
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Lambic: Brewing with Bacteria
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Oud Bruin