Poll: Do you like sours?

I voted yes. I like many of the traditional sour beers: Flanders Red, Oude Bruin, Geuze, etc. I can't get on board with the recent influx of kettle soured beers. Those all seem very one dimensional to me. If you lined up the last four I've had, I'm not sure if I could tell them apart. I don't think that they're interesting.

 

I like the flavor, not the price most of the time.

I do get the pricing though, time and space is money

 

Yeah, but to @monkeybeerbelly 's credit, if the poll options were: "yes," "no," "some but not all"... then "some but not all" would certainly get the votes and that poll would not be "particularly useful" either.

 

Some of the people voting that they don't like sours will be voting yes in a year or two. I've seen it happen numerous times.

 

Going to disagree here that it would not be more useful to know how many BAs have mixed feelings about sours (with out having to read and count each post for one's self).

With the third option in place they could then focus their explanations on which sours and why instead of why they chose to answer "yes" or "no" when neither fit. That would both make more interesting reading and be a basis for exploring differences between this nebulous term "sours" which means different things to different people, say in a future poll where the subdivisions are the focus of the poll.

 

This is often brought up, but I think it depends on the drinker's approach. If you are interested in trying every Lambic, then prepare to spend some money. If you like Gose and Rodenbach, you might be spending less on beer than an IPA fanatic.

 

Peer pressure is a powerful thing.

 

You haven't lived until you've had a New Glarus sour.

Truth.

 

Fruited sours are great. I never had a dry hopped sour ever. i have had brett beers dry hopped.

 

Why no "Hell Yeah I Do!!!!!" choice?

 

Fixed that for you.

 

I voted no but i do.

Most confusing poll ever.

 

I do like sours, but no more than one at a single setting. The sour taste tends to be a little over bearing for me

 

For me it doesn't get much better than a well made tart saison (particularly fruited). HF, Casey, SARA, Tired hands, etc. are all very good at this style

 

This is why I love cheap gose and Berliner weisse. I can buy Sierra Nevada Otra Vez, Uinta Ready Set Gose, Bell's Oarsmen's Ale, Ithaca Cayuga Cruiser, Westbrook Gose, and Lost Nation Gose anytime I'm thirsty for a sour ale, and for under $12 a six pack. Whereas Belgian gueuze have been relegated to special occasion beers...

 

To me, most sours taste like beer that's gone bad. I just can't handle them. Having said that, I'm glad that sours exist for the sake of the people who like them. Thankfully, there's something for everyone nowadays. I can easily remember when Beck's was considered exotic. And damn good. Especially when compared to the macros, which were about all that was available back then.

 

Yes, but there is a limit when it comes to sours, and that limit has a name: Lindemans Kriek Cuvée René.

Other than that I love a good sour beer.

 

I said yes, because a well made sour is a thing of beauty- See Oro de Calabaza or Consecration or the Dissidant....

But I will say the trend seems to be for every brewery to have at least one sour that's merely pungent, pucker up, no balance whatsoever, blast you with tartness and nothing else.... sour.

I enjoy sours that are complex and have a variety of flavors or components, rather than just straightforward sour. It amazes me what people have been willing to pay for these types of beers.

 

I share the exact same opinion! No funky stuff here please.