170 Year Old Beer

[campbellmike]

Anybody seen this article? It looks like sours where in vogue long before the current trend.

http://gizmodo.com/what-a-170-year-...source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[unionrdr]

Interesting article. I was researching some historic stuff for my 2nd home brewing book & found some interesting info in this regard in this article; http://www.europeanbeerguide.net/beerale.htm How British beers got their flavor is also discussed in this one about how they discovered Brettomyces in the barrels/casks they stored or shipped the beers in contributing that "British flavor" towards the bottom of the page. Reprints of books that discuss it, that is.

 

[acarter5251]

Haha I was reading the journal article about that yesterday when I saw it in an email from the American Chemical Society

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah, the money shot would've been seeing them tasting them for the first time!

 

[aprichman]

Probably just needed another week in the bottle for the flavors to mature