The Brewery Ommegang sour beer mentioned in the previous post now has a name: Ommegang Zuur. Larry Bennett, the minister of propaganda, provides some details abut the beer brewed in collaboration with Liefmans in Belgium:
“It’s a blended Flemish Sour brown. It’s a blend of two Liefmans beers: Oud Bruin, which is open fermented and then [...]

Brewery Ommegang’s plan for 2010 includes six new releases as well as creations that will be available only at the brewery outside Cooperstown, New York.
A press release calls this the 2010 Innovation Program and backs up the rather bold name. Six beers will be released, one every two months. They’ll be in 750ml bottles and [...]

The current issue of Imbibe magazine has a list of what it calls the best 99 (really 100 and really several lists) bottled beers in the world.
Good beers, but of course we know any list of “bests” is still just a list. I’ve rattled on about that enough.
But in case you like I noticed Ommegang’s [...]

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert in northern New Mexico wants to start a small brewery so it can take over the Monks’ Ale label now held by a Pecos monastery.
The Santa Fe New Mexican has the slightly confusing story. Here are the key elements:
- Originally Christ of the Desert and the Pecos [...]

Why is Bob Sylvester smiling?
First, you might ask, who is Bob Sylvester? He’s the founder, brewer, etc. at Saint Somewhere Brewing Co. The “where” in this brewery is Tarpon Springs, Florida. It’s tiny, last year selling about 140 barrels of beer (somewhat more than 4,000 gallons).
But there his beer was on “Good Morning America” Friday [...]