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One day, when you're at your local, lucky enough to be sipping a Mort Subite, or even a Boon Framboise, you may find yourself being asked precisely what a lambic beer is, and what the difference is between lambics and other beers.
The most obvious difference is that lambic is a kind of Belgian beer. Another is the style of fermentation: most commercially produced beers have their own yeast strains, carefully developed over the years, and maintained for consistency of the product. On the other hand, lambic beers use the bacteria and wild yeasts in the air around the Senne Valley around Brussels to set off their fermentation process. This means that your first taste of lambic probably isn't what you expect - unless you're prepared for a much drier taste with an aftertaste that verges on the sour. And some lambics have fruit added to them.
As for the fruit, it could be something typically tropical like banana or pineapple, or something a little closer to home, like blackcurrant, raspberry, peach, strawberry, apple, blueberry or even apricot. Back to the growing process: before fermentation starts, the liquid (or "wort", if we're going to get technical here) is left open to the air, waiting for anywhere up to 86 different kinds of micro organisms to settle on it to start converting the sugars there into carbon dioxide and alcohol.
This usually only happens between October and May every year, because of all the other micro-organisms floating around in the air - some of which can spoil the entire batch of lambic. So that's some of the differences. Anything else? Well, as opposed to certain commercial breweries that just ferment several thousand gallons as fast as possible to get them into pubs, clubs and supermarkets, the production of lambic beers is somewhat more leisurely.
Once the beer has started fermenting, it goes into wooden barrels for at least one year, and in some cases up to three years ... and a good lambic can be kept in the bottle for up to twenty years. Perhaps that's why you don't find too many lambics behind the bar at your local!
The most obvious difference is that lambic is a kind of Belgian beer. Another is the style of fermentation: most commercially produced beers have their own yeast strains, carefully developed over the years, and maintained for consistency of the product. On the other hand, lambic beers use the bacteria and wild yeasts in the air around the Senne Valley around Brussels to set off their fermentation process. This means that your first taste of lambic probably isn't what you expect - unless you're prepared for a much drier taste with an aftertaste that verges on the sour. And some lambics have fruit added to them.
As for the fruit, it could be something typically tropical like banana or pineapple, or something a little closer to home, like blackcurrant, raspberry, peach, strawberry, apple, blueberry or even apricot. Back to the growing process: before fermentation starts, the liquid (or "wort", if we're going to get technical here) is left open to the air, waiting for anywhere up to 86 different kinds of micro organisms to settle on it to start converting the sugars there into carbon dioxide and alcohol.
This usually only happens between October and May every year, because of all the other micro-organisms floating around in the air - some of which can spoil the entire batch of lambic. So that's some of the differences. Anything else? Well, as opposed to certain commercial breweries that just ferment several thousand gallons as fast as possible to get them into pubs, clubs and supermarkets, the production of lambic beers is somewhat more leisurely.
Once the beer has started fermenting, it goes into wooden barrels for at least one year, and in some cases up to three years ... and a good lambic can be kept in the bottle for up to twenty years. Perhaps that's why you don't find too many lambics behind the bar at your local!
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