beer column
my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with laura lynch aka "the sour hour" While it may not have had an official designation, 2015 really was the year of the sour in Vancouver. 2015 saw so many local breweries embrace the sour, and the brewer’s challenge at the BC Beer Awards saw 26 breweries enter a sour for judging. If you haven’t yet tried sour beers, I strongly suggest that you do. Especially if you don’t think you’re a beer fan. The number of people I hear about who never liked beer before but are loving sour beers is astronomical! There is a bit of experimentation with wild yeasts going on (aka spontaneous fermentation, the way beers are soured in Belgium by leaving the beer out in the elements to allow natural yeasts to infect it), but most local brewers are using other methods to sour their beers. Classic sour styles like the lambics made in Belgium take a year or more to develop their sour characteristics....