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Recipe: Burning Beard In Praise of Bacchus

Here is a homebrew-scale recipe for Burning Beard’s spontaneously fermented lambic-style beer. Including a turbid mash schedule and long boil, it’s inspired by the traditional methods followed by Belgian lambic brewers.

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Burning Beard cofounder Jeff Wiederkehr. Photo: Courtesy Burning Beard.
Burning Beard cofounder Jeff Wiederkehr. Photo: Courtesy Burning Beard.

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“Honestly, our only real contribution to this style is believing in it,” says Jeff Wiederkehr, Burning Beard’s cofounder and head brewer. “Believing in the magic of the process and being willing to let go.”

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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 77%
OG: 1.052
FG: 1.000
IBUs: 8
ABV: 6.25%

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