Favorite Sours?

Never had a less than world class sour from RRBC. Favorites are Beatification, Supplication & Temptation.

Sour in the Rye was very good and tart, but lacked complexity and so damn OVERPRICED it made me sick. Still enjoy the Bruery's lineup however...

 

Yeah, I will say that I do like Cuvee Renee better. I don't know- like I said, the last time I had Fond Tradition, it was absolutely godawful. Perhaps the first couple times I had it something else was going on.

 

maybe just a bad batch?

 

I'm still seeing a bunch of La Folie in the burbs

 

Bullfrog grrrz, best american sour out there. I've had worse true belgian lambics and this one is the truth.

 

I picked one up yesterday (haven't seen it before) for the first time when I went in to ask about RuinTen. I must be poor because I thought it was expensive at $12 :/ I haven't had it yet and I hope its worth it

 

they will probably not ever make it again. vuja de. cigar city. acetone!!! that said. A lot berliner weiss with there puckery goodnesses from southern brewing I'd like to sip on this summer

 

Cascade Kriek. Hanssens Kriek. Odell Friek. Rodenbach Grand Cru. Cable Car Kriek. Churchill's Finest Sour. Cantillon Rose De Gambrinus. Surly Five.

 

All of mine have been mentioned here, so I'll just add votes for the following:

Cantillon Classic Gueuze (duh)
La Folie
Love Child
Tilquin

 

my faves (in no order):

Lolita
Cuvee de Tomme
Cable Car
Red Poppy
Framboise de Amarosa
Iris (because it's only 1 of 2 Cantillon's I've ever had)
Supplication
Consecration
Toronado 25th
Sans Pagaie
Mother Funker
Almanac Farmers Reserve #3 & #4
Love Child #3

 

Drie Fontainen Oude Gueuze & Golden Blend Oude Gueuze
Cantillon Iris & Fou Foune
Rodenbach Grand Cru / Vintage
Lindeman's Cuvee Rene
Tilquin Gueuze
RR Consecration / Supplication
Boulevard Love Childs
Bruery Sour in the Rye
Jester King Funk Metal, Boxer's Revenge, Das Uberkind, Buddha's Brew & Atrial Rubicite (WHAT, I'm local!)
Real Ale Scots Gone Wild!
(512) Wild Bear
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
Petrus Aged Pale
Pretty much anything White Birch has ever done that is sour.
Crooked Stave Sentience (Bourbon barrel) & Oculus

... Holy shit I have a lot of favorites.

 

ive loved every sour beer I have ever had, some of my favourites:
Juliet - had a 2012 it was the sourest beer ive had in a while, but so delicious
Abbaye de Saint Bon Chienne, and Russian river consecration
and I always have to mention duchess de burgogne since it was my first sour

 

Of the ones I've had recently, these were fantastic:

Almanac Farmer's Reserve #3
Supplication
Temptation
Cantillon Gueuze
Oude Tart with Sour Cherries
Cuvee de Tomme

 

Cascade Apricot
RR Supplication
Deschutes Dissident
Bruery Oude Tart
My Oude Bruin on cherries
Any JP after 2 years
LA Red Poppy

 

What does DFPF mean?

 

Cantillon Classic Gueuze
Deschutes Green Monster
Abbey St. Bon Chien (2007)
Rodenbach Vintage
The Dissident (2010)

And would say RR Supplication and Consecration, but I've had some inconsistency with those (1/2 time superb, 1/2 the time solid, but something off)

I have Beatification, Oude Tart, Sour in the Rye, and 3F Golden Blend on deck to try :-)

 

Some of my favorite sours by style...

• Gueuze
  • Cantillon Classic Gueuze
  • Oude Gueuze Tilquin
  • St. Louis Gueuze Fond Tradition
• American Wild
  • Tart Lychee
  • Supplication
  • La Terroir
• Berliner Weissbier
  • Hottenroth
  • New Glarus BW
• Lambic
  • Cantillon Kriek 100% Lambic
• Flanders Oud Bruin
  • La Folie

Also, can I count Deschutes Conflux No. 1 as a sour? It's faint, but there's definitely a sour twinge to it.

There are a few more in my inventory that may join this list if they live up to my hope/expectations: Green Monster, Oude Tart, Tart of Darkness and Cascade Figaro, Kriek and Apricot.

 

Supplication and Temptation.

I haven't had too many sours.

 

Tart of Darkness is the only sour ive really had. That was like sucking on a warhead, in a good way. It caught me off guard, but I want it again really badly. Damn Connecticut and your uninviting liquor laws.

 

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