Best off the shelf sours

Hanessens geuze

 

I actually haven't had the Grand Cru. The Vintage was $17 I think. I didn't realize Grand Cru was that much cheaper. What do you pay for that one?

 

Tilquin's been really easy to find lately, it's so good.

Otherwise, Duchesse is everywhere and pretty good.

 

Grand cru is about $10, vintage was $20. I like the Grand cru, but couldn't justify paying double for the vintage.

 

Here the sour selection is fairly limited. Best offerings that sit on the shelf regularly are Lindemans Cuve Rene, Rodenbach Grand Cru and Petrus Aged Pale. Hard to find Jacobins on the shelf but it is also a fantastic beer.

 

$40...unless it is Schaerbeekse, that is highway robbery even in Taxachusetts...I'd suggest shopping around..seemes very available and probably $30 near me I'm thinking.

 

Personally I love Bockor's Vanderghinste Oud Bruin, formerly Bellegems Bruin. Where I am, it is easier to find and less expensive than it's higher rated cousin, Cuvee des Jacobins, but I still find it an extremely satisfying and delicious Oud Bruin. Not as tart as some, so I think even non-sour lovers could get into it.
I second Lindemans Cuvee Rene as well, a very nice Geuze at a decent price and widely available, and I found that shops that carry the other Lindemans regularly, can often get it in even if they don't normally stock it.

Cheers!

 

Julio's, Gordon's, Marty's (they are a bit higher than most) and most other places are around the same price. I may have been rounding up a bit there, but the gold label one is at least mid-30s everwhere I see it.

 

Juliet

 

Le Terroir from New Belgium is really great IMO

 

3F Golden blend is the easy answer, if you have the cash.

 

Yeah, that was my thought as well. Since when is Flanders Oud Bruin not considered a "sour" style?

As far as easy-to-get sours, Tilquin is the flagship. It's always on the shelf and always good. Similar can be said of St. Louis Gueuze Fond Tradition.

 

Absolutely! Rodenbach rocks! Friend brought this one over on Sunday and we both thought it was truly amazing. That was after we just finished a bottle of New Belgiums Le Terroir which also was extremely good but Rodenbach Grand Cru was at a whole other level.

Also Hill Farmstead's Pheneomology of Spirit is an amazing sour beer. Listed as a Saison but its got a completely unique flavor profile from other Saisons I've had and touch of sourness as well.

 

I would most certainly call Petrus Aged Pale a sour...their label even says "World Beer Awards Belgian-Style Sour Ale" on it...I feel like only Belgian breweries can get away calling their sour beers "Oud Bruins" or "Geuzes" (take the quote on the back of L'Brett D'or, for example)...so while even though they may fall into the OG style categories that are very true to their geographic location, they are, in my opinion, no different than the sour/wild ales brewed in the United States.

 

Any idea when we will be seeing Love Child 4?? I fell in love with the 3 while it was around!

 

It's always been $40 any time I have ever seen Schaerbeekse. Seems like anytime I can find a 375mL of anything 3Font it is $20+. That being said we don't get it in MN anymore since Shelton Brothers pulled out. I assume on the east coast 3Font and Cantillon are cheaper and more available (relatively).

 

HA!!! Well, 3F I can find in almost every store, but like I said, the Geuze is at least $30 - $35 everywhere I see it.
Cantillon is almost impossible to find - stores will get a case a couple times a year, if that, and it's gone in minutes.

 

Boon Gueuze is around here quite often, but (aside from the last batch (which had to be returned)), the best year round 12 oz maybe qualified as a sour is Bell's Oarsman.

 

In the midwest and out in California, I've seen 3F Oude Geuze 750's going for $15-20... and it's easily the best shelf geuze I've ever had. So I vote for that.

 

philly? only places I know to get RR sours regularly is in the burbs and its take out from bars