New Glarus Brewery (wisconsin) just released a small-batch brew--Sour Nut
Brown Ale. Damn this stuff is good. I have had a lot of beer, but I've
never heard of belgian sour ale. anyone else heard of it? any homebrew
recipes? thanks.

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> New Glarus Brewery (wisconsin) just released a small-batch brew--Sour Nut
> Brown Ale. Damn this stuff is good. I have had a lot of beer, but I've
> never heard of belgian sour ale. anyone else heard of it? any homebrew
> recipes? thanks.[/color]

Hmm. Belgian sour ale is an Anglosaxon common name for a number of
beerstyles current in Belgium, as lambic, gueuze, fruitlambics, Vlaams Oud
bruin, Oudenaardsen bruinen and sometimes, by expansion saison.
Joris

<cubfan@bleachers.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>New Glarus Brewery (wisconsin) just released a small-batch brew--Sour Nut
>Brown Ale. Damn this stuff is good. I have had a lot of beer, but I've
>never heard of belgian sour ale. anyone else heard of it? any homebrew
>recipes? thanks.[/color]

Flanders Red and/or Flanders Brown ales are certainly
not unknown among beer enthusiasts. Rodenbach beers,
and more recently Duchesse de Bourgogne are examples of
the first, while Leifman's Goudenband is the classic
example of the second. If you're ever in Ft. Collins
Colorado you can also stop by New Belgium Brewery for
some La Folie, an excellent take on the Flanders Red style.
As for homebrew recipes, use Google. It's not an easy
style to brew, and I have yet to taste a homebrewed example
that approached the wonderfullness of any of the commercial
beers I named above. (It's the one style of beer I readily
admit homebrewers can't reliably do as well as commercial
brewers.)
--
Joel Plutchak "I'm in beer class / Every Thursday night"
[email]plutchak@VERYWARMmail.com[/email] - "Sinister Foxx", _Title TK_, The Breeders

Yeah, New Glarus Sour Brown Ale is excellent. I love the stuff. Except it's
like $2 a bottle, and is not easy to find since it's sold by the single
only. But I will go out of my way for it...mmmmmmm

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If you like this beer, a similar choice from New Glarus is "Spotted Cow". I
think they compare it with a saison. As far as homebrew recipes, you could
try using a brown ale recipe and substitute a belgian-sour ale yeast.
Mike

spotted cow is one of my favs...

Spotted Cow is good, but it is _nothing_ like the Sour Brown...not even
close.

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I was mistaken, it isn't a "nut" brown, just a brown ale. It is definately
not a lambic (as far as I know of them). The bottle reads "...generally
available to the exclusive few who travel off of the beaten paths of Belgium
this is truly a sour brown ale. A ridiculously long lager in our oak casks
elevates rich round caramel malts backed with distinctly tart notes..."
--new glarus brewing company.