beernesday

the cbc website is featuring me again today ! B.C. craft beer trend: 3 tips for enjoying sour beers Our beer columnist Rebecca Whyman recommends Duchesse de Bourgogne, Oud Gueuze Vieille and Faro Lambic By On the Coast, CBC News Posted: Feb 05, 2015 4:32 PM PT Last Updated: Feb 05, 2015 4:32 PM PT Our beer columnist Rebecca Whyman recommends sour beers like Duchesse de Bourgogne, Oud Gueuze Vieille and Faro Lambic. (CBC) 2015: the year of sour beer 8:11 2015: the year of sour beer 8:11 39 shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories Craft breweries popping up across Nova Scotia Craft beer: 5 ways to sound like an expert 4 B.C. craft beer changes to look forward to in 2015 Sour beers like Belgian-style lambics are the new craft beer trend of 2015, according to On the Coast beer columnist Rebecca Wh...

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...

another top five list best breweries and bars in portland how anyone can pick a portland top five is beyond me, but i do agree with a couple of her choices (also a very appropriate link since i am in portland today) sours are the next big thing do you know your sours?  this oughta help i love me a beercation apparently i am not alone!

sour beers are all the rage the beer wench sure does love her kegerators fall beer picks from vancouver beer geeks and some love for brassneck brewery ultimate beer infographic got even more ultimate in case you need 21 excuses to drink more beer  (again)

powell street brewing to expand beyond its nano size which would have been necessary even before they won beer of the year camra craft beer calendar review of dead frog's new seasonal antidisestablishmentarianism amber ale a beer to memorialize colin jack want some help faking being a beer geek? the la times provides four words that will make you sound knowledgeable about craft beer dry-hopped, cask, mosaic and gueuze public invited to help bc liquor laws get with the 20th century (expecting the 21st may be a little too much) and the province weighs in on the possible new liquor laws "Buying locally brewed beer at a farmers' market? Sipping a glass of wine at the spa? Or enjoying lunch at your favourite pub with your teens?" those all sound like reasonable changes to me listen to paddy treavor on bc almanac oncbc radio last week bacon and beer in sf on august 25th enjoy them both along with the beer wench and a who's who of san fran...

after having attended a couple of previous tastings at firefly, i knew that there are some sour beers that i enjoy, and some that i just can't stand.  but which are which? thank dog firefly chose to host a sour tasting night! now i know what i like, and what i'd rather not ever be offered again! we sampled the following: dogfish head's festina peche (4.5%) upright brewing's late harvest barrel aged brown ale (7%) orval trappist ale belgium pale ale (6.9%) lindemans' cuvee rene gueuze (5%) cantillon's gueuze 100% lambic (5%) cantillon's kriek 100% lambic (5%) brouwerij de ranke's cuvee (7%) storm brewing's blackcurrent lambic i found the dogfish head to be more tart than sour using an old style from berlin, they added some peach flavour and peachy colour looks more like a very fruity wine in the glass than a beer it tastes almost champagney probably not something i'd buy but enjoyable nonetheless the brown ale was aged in...