Lambic Digest #0439

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Subject: Lambic Digest #439 (September 09, 1994) 
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Lambic Digest #439                             Fri 09 September 1994 

 

 
        Forum on Lambic Beers (and other Belgian beer styles) 
                Mike Sharp, Digest Coordinator 

 

 
Contents: 
  re:strawberry lambic (Jim Liddil) 
  Dead "Merchant du Vin" (dgmur) 
  Re: Rodenbach Grand Cru (Jay Hersh) 

 

 
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 7:43:32 -0700 (MST) 
From: Jim Liddil <JLIDDIL at hopi.azcc.arizona.edu> 
Subject: re:strawberry lambic 

 

 
% Steven wrote: 
%   I'm considering contaminating it with dregs from a "Merchant du vin" peche  
% or framboise (SP?) to add sourness.  Sound like a viable plan?  Sound like a  
% disaster in the making?  Thanks much for your thoughts or suggestions on the  
% matter. 

 
The Merchant du Vin products (i.e. Lindemanns) don't have nay vaible bugs in 
them.  Get some real cultures.  I bet the strawberry will completely fade after 
a year of fermentation by the brett and pedio. 

 
Jim 

 
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 10:06:48 -0700 
From: dgmur at cclink.fhcrc.org (dgmur) 
Subject: Dead "Merchant du Vin" 

 
     Steven W. Smith wrote "I'm considering contaminating it with dregs  
     from a "Merchant du vin" peche  
     or framboise (SP?) to add sourness.  Sound like a viable plan?" 
      
     Through hard experience which I have shared on this digest much to my  
     own humiliation, I would advise against this strategy.  There is  
     nothing alive in these products.  This is what I have been told by  
     experts and this is what I have learned by trying to culture the dregs  
     from these same products. 
      
     Denny at "dgmur at cclink.fhcrc.org"  I brew beer to drink, not for  
     contests. 

 
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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1994 14:30:42 EDT 
From: Jay Hersh <hersh at x.org> 
Subject: Re: Rodenbach Grand Cru 

 

 
Thanks to Jim Liddil.  I called Vanberg and Dewulf and indeed both are now 
being imported.  The regular Rodenbach labeled as Belgian ale, the Grand Cru 
which has the foil over the crown. 

 
Apparently our region just has a lame distributor so only the Belgian ale is 
presently available.  However according to our friends at Vanberg and 
Dewulfthey hope to remedy this shortly by whatever means.  They indicated I 
could purchase the stuff mail order from someone and were sending me info (I'll 
post this when I get it) in the meantime until they change the local 
distribution. 

 
So all you lucky folks enjoy yours for me.  If I get really desperate I'll 
crack open the bottles I carried back from Belgium :-)  otherwise I'll just be 
patient until the local stores carry them. 

 

 
        JaH 

 
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