Sour phase...Top 10 Sour Beers

Atrial Rubicite
Waelzblood

 

During a Raleigh, NC bottle share, this was my absolute favorite. Which shocked me, beacuse it was by the far the best botttle share I had ever been to, and overwhelming amount of rare beers to try. I'm still searching for more bottles, I would pay for a case if I could find it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

 

I clicked on your thread because by coincidence I just poured a glass from a bottle of Lips of Faith - Le Terroir (New Belgium), a dry-hopped sour ale that I've had sitting around for a while and decided to try tonight. It's really delicious! (I'm going to review it after this post)
A couple of months ago I had a glass of Brett Peat Daydream (Birrificio Del Ducato), a smoked sour ale; it was really interesting, probably the most unique beer I've ever tasted.

 

De Dolle Oerbier Special Reserva

 

In no particular order....

RR Consecration, Ithaca Brute, Duck Duck Gooze, RR Beatification, Almanac Farmer's Reserve #3, Weyerbacher Riserva, Cascade Sang Noir, Cascade Figaro, Love Child #3, .......

 

check out BFM, Abbaye De Saint Bon-Chien...seriously great beer.

 

IMO any of the "sours" from Freetail in San Antonio can comete with this list. Good luck getting your hands on any because all are brewerey distributed only and most dissapear quite quickly. IMO they are world class.

 

Fou Foune
Beatification
Ghoulschip
Supplication
Red Poppy (sucker for this one, but it's too damn expensive)
Tilquin
Tilquin Quetsch
Coolship Red
Cisco Ale Aged on Estate Grown Raspberries
Drie Fonteinen Oude Gueze Vintage 2001

 

Fun thread. This could change weekly for me. That's why it is fun to hunt down new sours. Here we go:

Upland Blackberry Lambic
Cantillon St. Lamvinus
Upland Kiwi
Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise
Jackie O's Dynamo Hum
Cantillon Saint Gilloise
Catillon Gueuze
Cantillon Vigneronne
Tilquin Quetsch
Drie Fonteinen Golden Blend


Order of infatuation could change daily except for Upland Blackberry and St. Lamvinus............but I need to hunt down A LOT MORE to try.

 

Well to the OP, that is quite a list you have and beers I'd only dream about tasting on the east coast..I do hate you a little for it lol.

Cisco brewers lady in the woods and peschish woods were 2 seriously great sours that really shocked me. Mainly because I never heard of them. Peschish woods is one of my favorites i've ever had.

 

Saint Lam, Persica b1, Izzy, CC 09, Lente, hommage, framboos

 

almost anything cantillion, personal fave would be the geuze with rose de gambrinus in the harem

and I am surprised most don't mention Rodenbach, been great forever... always a go to

 

have you tried any other sours from the bruery? everything they do is pretty top notch, in my opinion. Framboise De Amorosa is great, but when I had it I didn't feel like I was drinking a sour. a little tart, but also fairly sweet. very good, but not one I'd grab when in the mood for a sour.

as far as a couple of "non traditional" sours, tart of darkness from the bruery and almanacs bourbon barrel sour Porter are two of my regular go-to sours.

 

Everything made by Cantillon and Drie Fonteinen is worth seeking out.

 

Side Project Brett Project #1 (wellll, it wasn't actually sour, at all. But is one of the few 100% Brett beers I've had and really liked, and I think it's better than every one of these sours...)

J Wakefield Passionfruit Draigonfruit (by a lot)
Crooked Stave Persica Batch #1
J Wakefield Miami Madness
Crooked Stave Raspberry Dark Origins
New Glarus Very Sour Blackberry
Crooked Stave Whaelzblood
Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze
Drie Fonteinen Oude Gueze (bottled 2012)
Crooked Stave Zeke's
(T) The Bruery Sour in the Rye with Kumquats
Side Project Saison Du Fermier (have a hard time classifying this as a sour though)
New Glarus Raspberry Tart
Allagash Resurgam
Crooked Stave Surette Reserva Peach Whiskey BA
Paradox Wild Chockecherry Sour
The Bruery Oude Tart with Cherries
Funkwerks Tropic King with Apricots (again, really hard to classify as a sour, admittedly)

Ones that come suppper close: CS Dry Hop L' Brett, CS Oculus, CS Batch #1, CS Musty Cedar Box, New Belgium Love's Leopold, Lost Abbey Framboise De Amarosa, Cascade Bourbonic Plague, Cascade Manhattan NW, Cascade Sang Noir.