Just saw this on Fountainhead's Facebook Page: Monday, April 2, 2012 4:00pm "It Might Get Wild" - Night Of Wild & Sour Ales The next in our "It Might Get..." series, this time we are featuring beers with wild yeast (wild ales, lambics, sours, etc.). Unlike conventional ales and lagers, which are fermented by carefully cultivated strains of brewer’s yeasts, lambics and other wild yeast beers are sometimes produced by spontaneous fermentation: it is exposed to the wild yeasts and bacteria that are said to be native to the Senne Valley in Belgium. It is this unusual process that gives the beer its distinctive flavor: dry, vinous, and cidery, usually with a sour and/or funky aftertaste. This might just be our wildest “It Might Get…” yet! Mark your calendar, come early, take the next day off work, and bring some antacids. Bockor - Cuvee des Jacobins Rouge Allagash - Old HLT New Belgium - Clutch Victory - Wild Devil New Holland - Blue Sunday Dogfish Head - Noble Rot Evil Twin - Ron & The Beast Ryan Jolly Pumpkin - Noel de Calabaza Cisco Brewers - Monomoy Kriek Petrus - Aged Pale Allagash/New Belgium - Vrienden Stillwater - Premium Two Brothers - Askew New Belgium - La Terrior Hitachino - 3 Days Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L'Ancienne Anderson Valley - Gatlin Damnosus Jolly Pumpkin - Maracaibo Stillwater - Bri-Witter Weisse Vicardin Tripel Gueuze Cisco Brewers - Lady of the Woods and maybe a couple more treats... Like a Bockor Lambic Blending Seminar Bockor is an intriguing, historic, and rare place. It's one of the few remaining breweries in the world to practice all three main fermentation styles: top (or ale), bottom (or lager) and spontaneous (or sour). In this seminar, Adam Schulte of Artisanal Imports will lead you through a tasting of the remarkable spontaneously-fermented sour beers of Bockor. You will taste five distinct blends of young (jong) and old (oude) lambic. Both beers are made from the same wort but one is spontaneously fermented and aged for 18 months in giant oaken barrels (foeders). Taste for yourself the effect that acidity has on your palate and experience beautiful aged lambic as it tastes straight from the barrel. The final beer in our tasting will be the exceptional Cuvée des Jacobins Rouge, Bockor's Flanders Sour Ale. A very limited number of tickets will be available for $15 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/236550
Thanks Andrew for posting. Yes, should be a "Wild" night. If interested in the Bockor Lambic Blending Seminar, buy tickets ASAP! on 20 seats total. Cheers!
So, we have Good News & Bad News about next Monday's "It Might Get Wild" - A Night Of Wild & Sour Beers. The Bad News is, The Bockor Lambic Blending is SOLD OUT!! The Good News is, Tomme Arthur of Port Brewing / The Lost abbey is going to be our very special guest for the night & he is bring if amazing Red Poppy Ale!!
