Peach Blonde Sour
Rip Current Brewing

Barrel-Aged Peach Blonde Sour is the first in our wine barrel-aged, multi-culture (wild yeast and bacteria) fermented sour beers to come out of our Sour Series. In early 2017, we brewed a blonde ale that went into a large number of wine barrels with a varying mix of inoculates (fermenting organisms). Our first release roughly 18 months later incorporates peach purée. The resulting 7.4% ABV sour has a fresh peach aroma and flavor with complex lactic/acidic sourness and hints of funk from the Brett yeast. This sour ale is well balanced in part by using a restrained amount of fruits, so the fruit would not cover up the hard work done by the bacteria and wild yeast over the last 18 months.