Tag Archives: Spontaneous Fermentation

Authentic wine

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop’s Authentic Wine: Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking is the most extensive (technical) review of natural wine making to date. The authors prefer the term authentic wine to recognize the fact that wine is not a … Continue reading →

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Interview with Crooked Stave’s Chad Yakobson

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

Chad Yakobson has done the world of homebrewing and microbrewing a great favor by making the results of his academic investigations with brettanomyces yeast available on his website and participating in online exchanges about the use of brettanomyces in homebrewing. … Continue reading →

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Isastegi Sagardo Naturala: A lambic lover’s cider

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

In my ‘Wine for Lambic Drinkers’ post in 2009 I briefly mentioned the naturally fermented ciders from the Isastegi estate in the Basque country of Spain as a drink that lambic drinkers might enjoy. With the currently weak dollar and … Continue reading →

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Allagash lambic experiment with wild Maine yeasts

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf

The beer blog Beervana published some interesting details on Portland, Maine, brewery Allagash and their quest to brew a lambic-style beer. What is truly fascinating is that Allagash does not just inoculate the wort with wild yeasts from the Zenne … Continue reading →

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