Any Solid Sours Easily Available in Seattle?

cascade brewing is prob the best you will get in the bottle around seattle. Go to a good bottle shop and they will point you out to more sours

 

Yup. Since Russian River left the state, Cascade is a pretty good (but pricey) alternative. I was in Chuck's a week or so ago and they had cases upon cases of Blueberry and Vlad The Impaler, possibly a couple others.

 

And you should be able to find Logsdon's around. Seizoen Bretta is fantastic.

 

The Bruery's Sour in the Rye is stll around.

 

Red Peak's Morning Dew is drinking FANTASTIC right now.

 

Again with the Red Peak. Where can I find out about them?

 

Avoid Vlad this year. It's a hot mess in a bottle right now. So vegetal.

But Tilquin just sits on shelves. Get that all day erry day.

 

I don't consider Seizoen Bretta a true sour, but it is a fantastic beer and at around $10 a great value to boot.

 

Agreed. I haven't had it from a bottle, but if it's anything like the glass I had at the Barrel House on Wednesday it needs time (and luck) to mellow it out.

Also agreed. I've been attempting to stockpile all the batch 1 (1/2 year blend) and batch 2 (1/2/3 year blend) that I can find. It's arguably as good as Cantillon and Drie Fonteinen, and yet it just sits there.

 

Well "sour" in itself is a stupid terminology.

 

I'm just now getting into sours and wilds. I recently had my first bottle of Tilquin last week. Wow!

I'm not sure if the OP was only looking for local sours or not, but there are a ton of sours on the shelves around Seattle if you're not just looking for local --- Petrus, Duchesse, Rodenbach, Verhaeghe, Monk's Cafe, Lindemans, etc.

 

I don't know. Some beers actually taste sour (or tart), so I assume that's what the OP is looking for. I just don't think Seizoen Bretta is a particularly sour beer.

 

I'm glad to hear that. I picked up 3 bottles when I was in Quishnam last month but havent opened any yet. Henry said they will aged nicely.

 

Only 3? At $8/750ml, you should have gotten at least a case. Come on, man, this is some of the best out there.

EDIT: But thanks for leaving some for the rest of us...

 

It's insane. I grab bottles every time I'm down in PDX. I have no idea why it's so expensive in the Seattle area. Always $18 or so in PDX, but $23-25 in Seattle.

That's because Cantillon is one of the breweries that Pierre gets the wort from that he uses in his blends.

 

$3 for an imaginary beer seems pretty expensive to me.

 

eh?

 

"We miss you and we want to come home." - draheim's $30

 

[Insert obligatory Cascade beers are nothing but a lactic acid mess rant]

And for those of you who think you saw me at Bottleworks recently buying up bottles of the anniversary release, that was not me.