Hey guys,
It was running through my mind for a while now to blend lambic and last week I finally bought some fermenters. A buddy of mine who is also very passionate about lambic also bought a fermenter so we're working on this together.
Right now we have 2x 30L Speidel fermenters. I'm going to buy one more on monday. The plan is to fill three 30L fermenters with lambic from different lambic brewers. Yesterday we already went to De Troch to pick up 30L of 8 month young lambic. Pics:
I was kindly surprised by the color, aroma and taste of their lambic, although it misses some depth.
On friday we will be stopping by Lindemans and Girardin for more lambic. After all three 30L fermenters are filled, we plan on blending them on 12L fermenters. I also have access to 2yr old Boon and 2yr old Girardin.
The plan is to put some fruit on soms of the fermenters. Right now we already know for sure we will add grapes and gold kiwi to the first two blends. For the rest we'll have to see what fruit is available since it's off-season and everything's pretty expensive right now. Blueberries are one of the options. We will try to blend a geuze too.
I will post updates/pics in this thread when something happens. We started off knowing **** about blending but we're getting some help from a few very cool people. It's pretty exciting so let's hope for the best.
Cheers!
It was running through my mind for a while now to blend lambic and last week I finally bought some fermenters. A buddy of mine who is also very passionate about lambic also bought a fermenter so we're working on this together.
Right now we have 2x 30L Speidel fermenters. I'm going to buy one more on monday. The plan is to fill three 30L fermenters with lambic from different lambic brewers. Yesterday we already went to De Troch to pick up 30L of 8 month young lambic. Pics:
I was kindly surprised by the color, aroma and taste of their lambic, although it misses some depth.
On friday we will be stopping by Lindemans and Girardin for more lambic. After all three 30L fermenters are filled, we plan on blending them on 12L fermenters. I also have access to 2yr old Boon and 2yr old Girardin.
The plan is to put some fruit on soms of the fermenters. Right now we already know for sure we will add grapes and gold kiwi to the first two blends. For the rest we'll have to see what fruit is available since it's off-season and everything's pretty expensive right now. Blueberries are one of the options. We will try to blend a geuze too.
I will post updates/pics in this thread when something happens. We started off knowing **** about blending but we're getting some help from a few very cool people. It's pretty exciting so let's hope for the best.
Cheers!