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Maybe. Maybe not. It’s a bit weird, rather wonderful and divides opinion like the letter ‘n’. If you want to be considered a true beer geek, then you have to like it. Or, at the very least, pretend to ...
Lambic beer is one of those drinks that has become a victim of snobbery. It's common for beer and wine connoisseurs alike to turn their noses up at them for being overly sweet, soda-like, or akin to ...
Certain foods and drinks can only come from one specific geographic location; they have a particular terroir that deems any other mimicry to be nothing more than an effort at sincere flattery.
In the history of beer making, the use of isolated, cultivated strains of brewer's yeast to make beer is a relatively recent development. Before Louis Pasteur's late 19th-century discovery of brewer's ...
Is it possible to capture the magic of lambic, the near-mythical Belgian wild ale, with beer produced in downtown Long Beach? That’s what Gabe Gordon set out to do when he opened Beachwood Blendery, ...
Belgium's most prestigious lambic beer festival began as a protest. In 2004, the country's Federal Food Agency threatened to shutter a number of the nation's lambic breweries thanks to the continued ...