Wild & SourNearly lost
Adambier
A strong, dark, heavily hopped ale aged long in oak, where time and wild yeast turned it tart and complex — closer to a barleywine crossed with a Flanders red than to anything Dortmund is known for now.
Dortmund, Germany
Origin
Pre-19th century
First appears
8–12%
Typical ABV
0
In the archive
Dortmund's name today belongs to a pale export lager, which is the whole point of recording this one: the city's older beer was its opposite in colour, strength, and method, and the lager did not evolve from it so much as replace it.
Covered in Era 6 — The Styles That Nearly Died.
No beer in the archive is currently classified as Adambier. The style is defined here regardless — a category that exists before it is populated is a test something has to meet, rather than one written around whatever turned up.
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