"And it sounds like we can expect more commercially available sours from the little Galveston Avenue pub. Cornett said she's working on a high-end line of sours that should be ready in five or six months." http://www.bendsource.com/bend/super-summer-swill/Content?oid=2236253 I've been impressed with the Berliner Weisse variations Tonya and 10 Barrel have released, and she killed it at BBC with Ching Ching, so I'm looking forward to more local sours.
I dont think this is technically a "sour beer" as it isnt brewed using the wild yeast and other such bacterias, but sour as in its got some grapefruit in it since it was modeled after steigles radler. Wish it was some actual sour sours tho!!!
I had German Sparkle Party and Raspberry Crush last night at the brewery. Both were good, but Raspberry Crush tasted like sour soda. It needs an extra kick.
They've already released their radler version as a summer seasonal, but the part of the article that got me excited was the mention of a sour line coming out in a few months. Whether they are Raspberry/Apricot/Cucumber Crush in bottles or something new, I think its great that a multiple medal winner for sours is getting back to making more.
Berliner Weisse is made by doing a sour mash which uses naturally occurring lactobacillus (bacteria) on the grain. The mash is maintained at a certain temp to encourage the lacto to do it's thing and sour the wort pre-boil. While you'd be correct to say there's no bacteria post-boil, and a neutral yeast is typically used for fermentation, the beer is none the less as "actual sour" as it gets.
I stand corrected, perhaps I shall give this one a try! However, I did get my hopes up a little too high I suppose when I was thinking ( and wanted to think ) that this would be something similar to something cascade barrel brewing makes, which I think wont be the case. Nevertheless! I plan to give this one a try sometime soon.
The current summer seasonal, Swill, does not compare to Cascade's sours as it has grapefruit soda added. Whether the sours bottled recently for release in a few months are flavored Berliners like Raspberry Crush at the brewpub or some other type of sour (maybe closer to Cascade's) was not revealed. If I see Tonya, I'll ask.
