I have never left a comment BUT this was the funniest episode I have ever seen. I loved the shirt and the bacon. I couldn’t stop laughing.
LOVE IT!!!!! Great Beeer Episode too!

Good show for a bit of a change – would love to see a Bayern Weissbier show sometime! A more affordable price range of beers would be good as well – never knew $30 beers even existed before this show.

QOTD. Alec, you are doing great. Just don’t be afraid to not agreeing (or even disagreeing) with “the boss” sometime. 😉

QOTD: Nice Job Alec, 91 points!

GeeVee: meh, 85

haha!

QOTD: I would say your doing great. Maybe ready for your own show.. once a week..
Was Gary even there today?

Love that you’re branching out from wine on the show

GV: I see Lipitor in your future

Love the Beer Shows. Alec, you’re going great. Nice sweater. I’m a big Guinness fan. How about doing a stout/dark beer show.
Thanks

Lindemanâ??s Framboise finally something sold in my area that I can try. good show

Great show. I would love to see a nitrogen charged vs. carbonation charged beer challenge… which might require kegs and taps etc… but it would be fun to have a pub show. great stuff!

I just tried the Lindemanâ??s Framboise. It really does taste like cough drops. The novelty of that wears off very quickly. Itâ??s not something I ever need to try again.

I’ve been waiting for a lambic episode for ages, and I think I might have recommended you try some lambics when I commented on the last beerlibrary episode.

QOTD: Alec, doin good, I like how you pound the glass of beer that Gary pours you.

I LOVE GUEUZE, Cantillon is one of my favorites. Maybe one of these days we can get Gary to try an Oude Kriek (the sour one, not one with all the sugar, like Lindeman’s and Liefmans)

WOW, i just gotta say WOW. Went out and got my first Lambic last night, the Framboise was the only one they had. Holy FRUIT BOMB, wasnt expecting that much fruit. Its awesome though, definitely something for after dinner, im hooked.

QOTD:
GV – 92pt (+1/2pt for drinking from the bottle at the end)
Alec – 93pt

Cheers
Andrew

Just as Eva en Koenraad (fellow comment writers) I’m Belgian and for us lambic beers are a lot more common of course.
But I wouldn’t say the Russian River brew is lambic, for it is NOT beer which has fermented spontaneously. It is actually closer to a typical Belgian red ale, which is also a very sour beer : Rodenbach.

This type fermentation for beer (which is limited to Pajottenland and Brussels) is similar to the way Roquefort blue cheese is made…so, no yeast is added, it’s all in the air! This makes a lambic ;gueuze and other lambic based beers (kriek, framboise…) are actually blends of different ages of lambic (hence the “méthode champenoise” and gueuze named the champagne of the beers). By the way, in Belgium we name gueuze and kriek/framboise for those blends which are bottled; the “primitive” non blended beer is “lambiek=lambic” for us : sweet lambic (very young), kriekenlambiek (the one used for kriek) for instance. I do not like gueuze but I enjoy the lambiek a lot, so the taste is really different.
Looking at the comments, it might have been wise to start by telling this in the programme.

As a number of other people said…Cantillon is one of the best true lambic brewers still active and they are in the centre of Brussels and can be visited. What’s really very attractive about cantillon is 1/ that they still use the classic recipies (i.e. adding fruit and not sirop to the beer being formed), and 2/ that they make a lot of “once only” brews for clients. A couple of years back, I went to Stockholm and Akkurat, a fameous beer bar there had had a batch of lambic made with typical swedish berries.
Lindemans is a commercial lambic maker and it is one of the first brewers who jumped onto the new trend (to make young people like beer again) : make the stuff very sweet! Definitely not done for real beer lovers.
So, please feel free to make a programme about trappist beers, or saison (to Scott : the only thing lambic and saison have in common apart from some ingredients is really the period of the year they are made in, namely winter!) or white beers or… but NO sweet fruit beers…that’s like making a programme about breezers!
I’m now living in Spain but twice a year I bring a car load of beer from Belgium…wonderful ;-))!

QOTD: Keep it going man!…My fiance is in complete love with ALL of the Lindeman’s products…a bit too fruity for me but I definitely agree with you in that its a great beer for someone who isn’t a beer fan or much of a drinker. Great Ep!

Good show, but I am not a big fan of lambics.

QOTD: I do like the BeerTV shows as long as they aren’t too frequent and Alec rocks it out!

Alec, I think you’re great on the show. Thanks for talking about Lambic beers so more people will know they’re not all sugary fruit. I’m also glad you mentioned Allagash Brewing. I’m biased because I live right near Portland, Maine, but they are my favorite brewery.

The show was a nice departure from the typical wine show. same energy and all that but a different perspective, more inquisitive on Garys part instead of the usual boat of confidence. (not that this is bad) Point is this, different fermentation methods and ranges of flavors and combinations present us with new experiences and take our head out of its usual place and perspective.

Forgot to mention a Wisconsin producer, New Glarus brewery. Distribution generally in WI and neighboring states. They have a raspberry and a cherry that are a little more tart than the Lindemans offering. Both include a good amount of sediment in the bottle.
http://www.newglarusbrewing.com/beers.cfm?BeerID=10
http://www.newglarusbrewing.com/beers.cfm?BeerID=11

You’re doing great Alec, but that thing you’re wearing is not stylish or classy!!
haha
Nice one, good show!

I love the beer coverage and would like to see more. Not crazy about Alec; he’s trying a little too hard and needs to relax some.

The power of suggestion, you actually made me open a beer (although the only one I had in the house was a Grolsch Oud Bruin, so at only 2.5% you could argue it isn’t really a beer).

Gary, eating bacon & cheese & wearing a Vegan.com T? 😀

Those beers sound exactly what I’d like…never had a Lambic beer before, I may have to look for one to try. Great show!

QOTD – Alec, you were great….the shirt & tank-top combo not 🙂

Killer show. I have been a beer nut before beer was cool. Have has many lambics and enjoyed many. Actually have some of the Boone Marriage series from 15 years ago in the cellar. 🙂
Alex, you rocked it! You were very knowledgeable on the subject and did a fantastic job. BTW, also digged the way you slugged them back. Made Gary look like your shy date. lol

GV- youre way off, argyle is totally 2008/2009