Lambics If you are looking for a truly traditional beer manufactured in the same way as hundreds or maybe even thousands of years ago, you should really consider lambics. The fermentation process is fully spontaneous – no carefully selected, pure yeast cultures are added in the production process, as is the case with “normal beers”.…
It is brewed like traditional beer, by leaving hot wort to cool down naturally. Then, the beer is poured into traditional old port wine or sherry barrels, used multiple times to ferment beer, or into steel barrels. This allows specific microflora to spontaneously enter the wort. Apart from standard brewer’s yeast, we find here wild…
You buy a bottle of your favourite beer, look closely and notice there is something floating at the bottom. Has the beer gone bad? No, it’s only sediment, which indicates that the beer is unfiltered and/or has been refermented. You need to remember one thing: sediment at the bottom of the beer bottle is nothing…