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WAT? #15 - Lambic

 WAT? #15 - Lambic [45:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Most brewers would agree that the yeast you use plays a very important role in how your beer tastes. Having said that, you’d want to be very careful with your yeast right?

Nope. Not with Lambics anyway, those crazy Belgians simply expose the Wort to the open air and hope for the best!

Spontaneous Fermentation is what they call it: a barely controlled onslaught of wild airborne yeasts and bacteria.

Needles to say, these beers have some pretty funky flavours.

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3 Responses to “WAT? #15 - Lambic”

  1. Hey guys, enjoyed the lambic show - this is one of my favorite styles and I’ve tried quite a few. With regard to the consistency issue you brought up with Boon, I’m pretty confident that both bottles you sampled were pretty consistent in flavor profile … sounds like your palates are evolving! Also, though Lindeman’s lambic beers (with the exception, maybe, of their Cuvee Rene) tend toward the sweet side of things, this is not the case of all fruit lambics by any stretch. In fact, some of the very best fruit lambics on the planet are brewed by Cantillon and are exceedingly tart and dry. Very little sweetness. While Lindeman’s, St. Louis and others like this are good “gateway” beers, as you mention, I’m afraid they’re really not indicative of authentic lambic styles. If you haven’t yet, grab a bottle of Cantillon Kriek 100% lambic, or Rose De Gambrinus … and pucker up! As always, great work!

    Shawn, the Beer Philosopher

    Shawn Connelly - July 26th, 2007 at 3:04 pm

  2. Probably shouldn’t have tasted the Lindeman before the other ones. And I do blieve that Lindeman’s Gueze and gueze in general it is a blend of three years… old, middle, young… and the hops that are used aren’t fresh, but also aged years before added

    BoulevardJohn - November 30th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

  3. Oh yah… and I am a firm believer in that which you taste at the time you taste it is dependent on what else you have drank…if you have something sweeter (eg. lindeman’s gueuze), then something funkier (eg. boon geuze), then a fruity, sweeter beer( eg. boon kriek) … they will all taste different than if you had had any of them as your first beer even if you have a “bjcp palate” … it is very hard to change from beer to beer to beer to beer and be able to treat them as seperate entities.

    BoulevardJohn - November 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

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