Tag: wild fermentation

Where the Wild Beers Are: Brussels and Flemish Brabant

Where the Wild Beers Are: Brussels and Flemish Brabant

Skimming place names on a map of Belgium is like going into a prodigiously stocked bottle shop. Where do you start in a country with a beer heritage as rich as it is in Belgium? Trappist beers, witbier, saison, Flanders red, oud bruin? What about 

Jolly Pumpkin’s Baudelaire Saison (The Sour Sessions)

Jolly Pumpkin’s Baudelaire Saison (The Sour Sessions)

Brew it and they will drink. Mixed-culture fermentation has a long history in North America stretching back to the days prior to Prohibition. Brewers with British roots arriving in the great port cities of the east fanned out across the continent, some of them continuing