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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
the bottle says 'Premium Kriek" and then has a logo that says St Louis on it. He bought it in Belgium and it was apparently brewed there.
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Ahh... St. Louis Kriek, from Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck, Ingelmunster.
Yeah... Lambic is a definitive Belgian style.
Originally, a lot of them were brewed using "spontaneous fermentation," where the yeast was not applied to the beer directly, but, instead, the fermenting vessels were open-air containers... and they'd open up the roof so that natural yeast would fall down on the wort (unfermented beer), and kick off the brewing process.
Now-a-days, with the understanding of microbiology that we have, that style of fermentation is practiced in far fewer breweries than it once was.