Sour addiction!

Yeah, I've been digging the sours and I also like Kefir especially in smoothies though. In the summer instead of saturday night stout night I'll likely be having saison saturday's. My store has a few cases of sour in the rye and the Beer Manager is a Sour fan himself.

 

Supplication & Beatification are the two best American Sours I've had the pleasure of experiencing. Jolly Pumpkin, while recommended just isn't sour enough...

 

I crush up warheads and add them to my grapefruit flavored kombucha.

 

It does? That's half the price of Coors 'back east' here. Have a hard time believing that...looking at NJ retailers' sites, Blue Moon cases sell for around the same price as Samuel Adams Boston Lager - $25-26.

 

Because Petrus is a one dimensional sour beer that tastes good and there are exceptional examples of the style in the same store that don't require making a trade or flying to Denver to get the beer you recommend.

 

What else comes in the case? It's 4 different beers, right? I know it has the Petrus and Monks, both of which I'm a fan, and my local beer shop is supposed to start carrying soon according to a rep there.

 

Anytime. It doesn't need aging. It's sour and funky. Blue cheese and green olive. Salty sour. It can be a bit overwhelming by the end of the bottle.

 

Two words: Mother Funker

It will either cure your addiction or send you into a tailspin all the way to rock bottom where you will find yourself drinking battery acid to look for that next level of kick

 

Have loved sour beers from the get-go, but hoppy beers not so much. When I cannot drink sour beer, kombucha is my go-to - all the tart and no alcohol (which can be a good thing.) And Mother Funker finally showed me where my tolerance ended - battery acid, for real!

 

I love sour beers. I have since the first one I tried (Duchesse De Bourgogne, which is too sweet for me now). I now love brewing sours so that I can have easy access to my sour fix. However, I still do not like kombucha. There is something off putting about it too me.

 

It seems like the 2010 version is really sour and the 2011 versions is not so much based on reviews. I have a bottle of 2011 aging now.

 

Maybe my palate hasn't matured like yours. Or maybe I just like good beer.

 

Haters gonna hate. I'm sure you have a local brewer that does a better job than petrus. Or, get a trading partner.

That being said, nowhere in this conversation has it been asked or stated that anyone wanted an opinion about well distributed sours, I just happened to suggest a sour I enjoy, and voiced my opinion on another beer being sub-par in my eyes. I'm not asking you to get a plane ticket and fly up here to get some good beer. I would prefer that you don't. As an alternative I do suggest that you check out the trading forum. I know, I know, it's a new thing this beer trading, but really, you should give it a shot. Unless of course you have some frequent flyer miles to burn. Why you're jumping my shit for making a suggestion to someone who has probably tried all the readily available sours is beyond me, maybe your friends will think you're tuff. I don't know, but I still stand by my suggestion of "petrus makes one dimmensional beers" and seek out some crooked stave.

 

Calm down. No one is jumping your shit and you shouldn't be getting your feelings hurt by anything that has been said so far. Your condescension was amusing though.

 

Pfft, I liked sours before it was cool.
Has anybody made a sour called "Bandwagon" yet?

 

I'm glad to read this. I thought I was a freak for pouring an Odio Equum into my Le Bleu because it just wasn't that sour.

 

It's Petrus Pale, Petrus Bruin, and Monks Flemish. The Bruin is kind of a pass for me, not an absolute waste, but definitely not as good as the other two.
BTW I will take a half a dozen pee-bibs, and will gladly submit payment to Taco Corp in the form of Forever Stamps

 

I'm addicted to Struise Aardmonnik -Earthmonk. But it's not the mouth feel for me. Its the nose.

 

To the cloud!

 

yep, mmm... sauerkraut juice.