Brandon Jones, has been a friend and proponent of Bootleg for many years. His original ETF blog, created over a decade ago, helped pull back the curtain on sour beer making for an audience eager for any morsel of information. Using his journalistic credentials, Brandon has explored complicated techniques and […]
The early days of American wild and sour beer brewing were full of hearsay and guesswork, as Americans paid homage to centuries of European mixed culture brewing. Out of that darkness came Jay Goodwin, Co-Founder and CEO of The Rare Barrel, whose show The Sour Hour interviewed the most talented […]
Black Project Spontaneous and Wild Ales is known for creative beers that incorporate spontaneously inoculated wort. To make things even more interesting, the Black Project Culture is a mix of both coolship and grape-derived microbes. Founder James Howat recommends using a high mash temperature and increasing the amount of wheat […]
Back in spring of 2019, we had just released OSLO — our clean-fermenting, lager-like Kveik isolate — and were gearing for the Craft Brewers Conference in Denver. Naturally, we felt other brewers in attendance should get a taste of our new culture, so a collab was arranged with our buds […]
