A festival dedicated to the funkier side of beer launched today at Oedipus Brewing in Amsterdam. I caught up with Jan from De Bierkoning bottleshop to talk about his love for these organisms with funny names like Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, Acetobactor, Torulaspora, Kluyveromyes and Debaryomyces. Ya dig? Q: Carnivale Brettanomyces "A beer festival dedicated to Brettanomyces and other wild things" - please can you share with us how your festival idea came around, how long you've been going and where the festival is based? This will be the 4th episode. Number one took place in 2012. It was a one day event back then. As many things it sprouted during a beery conversation with Elaine Olsthoorn, staff at Bierproeflokaal In de Wildeman . I'm myself am a long time employee at De Bierkoning bottleshop. At In De wildeman they have yearly events, putting certain styles, or countries, in the spotlights. The German be...
John Wright from River Cottage posted his Mulled Cider recipe recently... so just sharing this one: To make enough to serve 4, pour 1 litre still cider into a saucepan and add a glass of good apple juice if you like. Add 6 cloves and 4 cinnamon sticks, cover and bring slowly to the boil with the lid in place. As soon as it starts to simmer turn off the heat and add 200ml sloe gin (optional, but highly recommended) and 1 or 2 sliced oranges. Taste, and add a little honey or sugar if you want. Serve straight away.
At the beginning of a new year you often find yourself reflecting back over the year that was. Remembering the gigs you attended ( Black Sabbath at Sheff arena will long stay in my good time memories) and in my case, the beer I imbibed too. Luckily there’s an app or two for that, just as long as you can manage to swipe and stab at your phone under any state of affairs, it’ll help you remember what you relished drinking along the way. One of my personal beery highlights from last year was sharing a toast of Brooklyn Brewery’s Sorachi Ace, a delicate Belgium style farmhouse saison, with the man who created the recipe - head brewer Garrett Oliver at the Society of Independent Brewers ( SIBA ) gathering last March. It was announced not long after that Sheffield would again host the event and its associated beer festival, Beer X . How time flies as twelve months later here we are with SIBA’s 2014 event launching in a matter of weeks. behind the scenes last ...
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