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Fundamentals #131 — Pastore Blood Peach Waterbeach Weisse

Cambridge Fundamentals Matthew Curtis Pastore Brewing & Blending Sour

Fundamentals #131 — Pastore Blood Peach Waterbeach Weisse

I confess, I don’t drink a lot of fruit sour beers. I do, however, enjoy the term “fruit sour” if you’ll allow me to explain. It’s been very enjoyable observing the return of some classic, near extinct central European styles over the past 10 years or so. If it wasn’t for experimentally-minded, plucky brewers digging through the history books, styles such as gose and Berliner weisse might have been consigned to history, and not the colourful cans that now adorn our bottle shop shelves. However, as brewers have increasingly sought to experiment with these styles by, for example, loading them with fruit, they have...

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Fundamentals #81 — Pastore Brewing & Blending Tropicale Acido

Cambridge Fundamentals Matthew Curtis Pastore Brewing & Blending Sour

Fundamentals #81 — Pastore Brewing & Blending Tropicale Acido

October is a month that encompasses both change and the need for greater balance and stability. The drawing in of the nights, colder, wetter days, and leaves fading to ochre then red, signifies the turning of the seasons; a welcoming in of beers enjoyed by roaring log fires instead of in beer gardens or sunlit parks. And it’s time to pull those flannel shirts you’ve been dreaming about wearing for the last couple of months to the front of the wardrobe again. Glory be. As the seasons change, so do our needs and our behaviours. The time for heirloom tomato...

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