Favorite Sours by Style

I went with American Wild. All the sours I have had have been, but it's the American Wild Ales that I've had that stick out in my mind as the "aww yeaah" beers.

 

Geueze and American Wild Ale. Sometimes, I like to pour geuze all over myself before going to bed. Amazing for your skin. AND your tastebuds!

 

I haven't had too many sours yet, but I'll share what I have. Voted Guezue for the favorite style. Sipping on an Oude Geuze Boon right now.

Based on how BA categories the styles:

American Wild Ale: Boulevard Love Child #3
Berliner Weisse: DFH Festina Peche
Flanders Oud Bruin: Petrus Aged Pale
Flanders Red Ale: Duchesse De Bourgogne
Gueuze: Oude Guezue Tilquin a L'Ancienne
Lambic (Fruit): Lindemans Framboise
Lambic (Unblended): n/a
Gose: n/a. Hoping to get my hands on a Westbrook soon.
Brett Saison: Boulevard Saison-Brett

 

Westbrook Gose changed my life. Definitely need to trade for a dozen cans or so in the near future... so yum.

 

American Wild Ale: Allagash PNC Broken Elevator
Berliner Weisse: New Glarus Thumbprint Berliner Weisse
Flanders Oud Bruin: HaandBryggeriet Haandbakk
Flanders Red Ale: Rodenbach Caractére Rouge
Gueuze: Armand'4 Lente
Lambic (Fruit): Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise
Lambic (Unblended): Cantillon Iris
Gose: N/A

These are tops as of right now. Though I have a few beers in the cellar that may (and I'm hoping will) unseat some of the beers listed above.

 

Should try gozu. Very underrated. It shits on gose.

American Wild Ale: Jester King Atrial Rubicite
Berliner Weisse: New Glarus Berliner Weiss
Flanders Oud Bruin: New Belgium La Folie
Flanders Red Ale: Rodenbach Caractere Rouge
Gueuze: Cantillon Gueuze
Lambic (Fruit): Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise
Lambic (Unblended): N/A
Gose: Westbrook Gozu

 

Kriek seriously needs it's own category( fruit lambic just isn't the same). It's no secret. I am in love with the cherry!

 

All of them. Sours transcend style in my book.

 

Well now I'm ISO and it's all your fault.

 

I didn't answer the poll at first because I think sours are too wide-ranging and awesome to choose just one. Upon additional soul-searching, my pick would be American Wild ale simply because there are so many great options out there.

• American Wild Ale: This style is far too varied for me to pick just one. Let's try a few: RR Supplication, NB Le Terroir, NB Tart Lychee, and Boulevard Love Child #3
• Berliner Weisse: The Bruery Hottenroth (honorable mention to Justin Blåbær)
  
• Flanders Oud Bruin: NB La Folie
• Flanders Red Ale: Cascade Kriek (BA and Cascade call this a Flanders Red in spite of the name...)
• Gueuze: Cantillon Classic (honorable mention to Tilquin)
  
• Lambic (Fruit): Cantillon Kriek
• Lambic (Unblended): N/A
• Gose: Leipziger Gose (my exposure to the style is admittedly small) and an honorable mention to a local brewpub, McCoy's Public House, for producing a wonderfully-puckering take on the style this past summer. I hope they brew it again. The only other two I've had were Verloren (Sam Adams) and the very disappointing Hibiscus Gose from Widmer.

 

American Wild: Cable Car/Supplication
Berliner: Hottenroth
Oud Bruin: La Folie
Flanders Red: Jacobins
Gueuze: 3F Oude Gueuze
Goze: Salty Weisse (the only one I've ever had)
Lambic/Fruit: Fou Foune
Lambic/Unblended: Iris

 

American Wild: VSB
Berliner: Southern Brewing and Wine Strawberry Bungalow Weiss (tampa local brewery)
Oude Bruin: Wee on the Lam (O'so) tied with New Glarus Enigma
Flanders Red: Rodenbach Grand Cru
Gueuze: Armand'4 Oude Geuze Herfst
Lambic/Fruit: Upland Kiwi
Lambic/Unblended: Cantillon Bruocsella Grand Cru

 

American Wild Ale : Russian River Beatification
Berliner Weisse : The Bruery Hottenroth
Oude Bruin : Petrus Aged Pale
Flanders Red Ale : Bockor Cuvee de Jacobins Rouge
Gueuze : Tilquin Gueuze
Gose : Westbrook Gozu
Lambic/Fruit : Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek
Lambic/Unblended : Cantillon Iris

 

Tried to make this a list of American beers, but Gueuze and Lambic cannot be
American Wild Ale: Ithaca Brute
Berliner Weisse: SARA Maiden Fields
Flanders Oud Bruin: CL Rosso E Marrone
Flanders Red Ale: Red Poppy
Gueuze: Tilquin a L'Ancienne
Lambic (Fruit): Lou Pepe Kriek
Lambic (Unblended): Iris
Gose: Westbrook

 

American Wild Ale: Lost Abbey Framboise de Amorosa
Berliner Weisse: Kernel Borefts Festival Special - Raspberry (only had a few of this style)
Flanders Oud Bruin: Struise Aardmonnik (2007 Batch)
Flanders Red Ale: Rodenbach Vin de Céréale (2004 Batch)
Gueuze: 3 Fonteinen Armand'4 Lente
Lambic (Fruit): Cantillon Kriek (yes I have had others, 100+ so far)
Lambic (Unblended): So much variation, young lambiek Boon used to make for 3 Fonteinen
Lambic (Faro): 3F Faro (amazing beer, most Faro is not good, I have had 15/15 listed on BA)
Gose: Bayerischer Bahnhof Original Leipziger Gose (only had a few so far)

As requested above, favourite brett non-sour beer: Orval (4 – 6 weeks old)

Iris is technically not an unblended lambiek, I am being anal here.

 

American Wild Ale: Le Bleu
Berliner Weisse: Hopfenstark Alexander
Flanders Oud Bruin: Older C&C Lafolie
Flanders Red Ale: Rodenbach Grand Cru
Gueuze: Armand '4 Lente/ DeCam
Lambic (Fruit): Fresh Fou Foune
Lambic (Unblended):Iris
Gose: Lost Nation

 

God this stuff was amazing. Reminded me of a mini-Beatification (style guidelines aside). I need more of it in my life!!

 

Just starting to like sours but Consecration blows away anything else I've had. Love Child #3 was pretty good too.

 

American Wild Ale: RR Beatification (though NG's Very Sour Blackberry is VERY close)
Berliner Weisse: NG Unplugged/Thumbprint Berliner Weisse
Flanders Oud Bruin: Kuhnhenn Cherry Oud Bruin
Flanders Red Ale: so many... Rodenbach Grand Cru, Cuvee des Jacobins Rouge, Oude Tart (also w/ Cherries), Red Poppy Ale
Gueuze: 3F Zomer, bar none.
Lambic (Fruit): Cantillon Fou Foune
Lambic (Unblended): Cantillon Iris or DeWulf Lambickx
Gose: Westbrook Gose