beer column
my beer notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast with stephen quinn: I said in my 'year ahead' column back in January that I predict 2015 is going to be the year of the sour. While it is a fact that I am trying to convert Stephen to a sour beer fan, I am not trying to force sours to break out in 2015. I don't have to - 2015 as year of the sour is already off to a running start. In January three local breweries came out with sours: Four Winds with Nectarous, Four Winds and Steel & Oak collaborated on a Gratzer and Parallel 49 put its Bodhi on tap in the tasting room. Sour beers are a varied lot of beers that have been purposely infected with yeast strains ( Lactobacillus , Brettanomyces , and Pediococcus ) that cause them to taste sour. When this happens by accident, the beer is considered spoiled. When it is done on purpose, it is considered delicious! I think a very romantic example of a sour brewery is Cantillon Brewery i...