I respect what goes into making a good lambic, but I've never had one I loved. Applies to sour beers more generally. That's me, though--drink what you like! (This might be a familiar sentiment ...)
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Snarf Zagyg
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This sounds like you're not getting the right advice. You're going to need plenty of beer advice before this thread is over. As your beer attorney, I advise you to fly to Belgium and rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine. Some of those apple airbud thingies for the music. Get the hell out of America for at least a fortnight and take yourself on a tour of Belgian beers. Those Belgians- they might be the freekie-deekies of Europe, but their breweries are the Disney World of boozing. Buy the ticket, take the ride. And by the time you manage to clear out "It's a small world" from your barely-functioning brainstem, the majesty of the Lambic will be revealed.
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payn
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I agree. The Belgians make some superb beers.
Alas, I apparently wasn't taking pics when I went through my "gotta collect the set" phase with the Trappists. Not that a bottle of Westy 12 looks like much ...
Snarf Zagyg
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When people say, "Give me one good argument to keep monks in 5e,"
I reply, "Belgian Trappist Beers."
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How else do you explain Drunken Master?
There is a third option - If the process of making one can end up with another such that even the maker is not clear on the matter, the distinction may not actually a practical one in most cases.
Indeed. This is how American Barleywine, Black IPA, and other generally acknowledged styles came to be. Generally, those started from the brewer getting where they wanted to be, though, and the taxonomists catching up.
LordEntrails
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This I will not argue with. My wife just found someone to send a dozen Timmerman's to us in the the US. No idea what she paid, I don't want to know.
Fair enough. But... beware taxonomists.
Like, with wine - all the language around wine flavors and characteristics beyond the most basic can be demonstrated to be, well, hogwash. In a blind test, a given taster will often attribute highly different characteristics to the same wine on different tastings.
Taxonomies based on such, then, are not of practical value, as they are not dependable.
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