Top Ten Sours?

Tartare is very very similar to Supplication

 

So little love for Beatification so far is funny. It is soooo damn good.

 

Jester King deserves to be on any usa top ten sour list.

 

I don't want to have to think of ten, because I'd leave too many out.
So I'll only mention the one I'm drinking now...



Simply fantastic!

 

Definitive (hardly means anything):

1) 3F Oud Gueuze
2) T25
3) Love Child #2
4) VIBE (Ventura CA homebrew club) Lambic 2011
5) RRBC Beatification
6) RRBC Supplication
7) Bruery Confession
8) Bruery Batch 50
9) Jester King RU-55
10) Bruery Ebony and Oak (accidental sour, but still great)

Honorable mention: Rodenbach. Before you trash, I have had as many AMAZING bottles as ive had oxidized, acetic, and flat, drain pours.

*stirs the pot vigorously*

 

Just had Bierica, awesome sour.

 

Atrial Rubicite deserves to be on this list.

 

Article was American sours. Glad to see JP make it in there. I dont think i can list top 10, have to have Allagash, Cascade, Jolly Pumpkin, Russian River, Crooked Stave, Jester King in there.

 

Top 10, no fruit. Couldn't bring the list down to even 20 if fruit sours were included. This was hard enough!

1) 3F - Golden Blend
2) RRBC - Temptation
3) Cantillon - 50N
4) Drake's - Brette Davis Eyes
5) Cantillon - Classic Gueuze
6) Cantillon - Iris
7) Rare Barrel - Egregious
8) Jester King - Das Wunderkind
9) Petrus - Aged Pale
10) Allagash - Resurgam

 

All this sour talk...i want one now.....

 

Just pulled my top 10 ratings for lambics/AWA, listed in order. I seem to be biased towards lambics, but there are quite a few well-made American Wilds on the list. Presumably, Flora and Flora Satsuma do not count.

Cantillon Fou' Foune (fresher the better)
3F J&J Blauw
Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek
RRBC Beatification
NG R&D Very Sour Blackberry
SP Fuzzy
3F Armand'4 Zomer
Cantillon Saint Lamvinus
Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise
Cantillon Blåbær Lambik (still not quite worth what it takes to get)

Adjusting for AWAs only:
RRBC Beatification
NG R&D Very Sour Blackberry
SP Fuzzy
Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze
SARA West Ashley
RRBC Supplication
RRBC Consecration
RRBC Temptation
Allagash Coolship Resurgam
HF Elaborative #2

 

Crooked Stave Raspberry Dark Origins
Followed by their other BA ones, Avery BA sours, J Wakefield Berliners, some Funky Buddha berliners, and my latest homebrew berliner. They can take spots 10 - 2

 

Pretty solid list, though I don't agree with all of them. My top 10 American sours in order:

1. RR Supplication
2. Love Buzz (I know, this is more funky than sour but it gets tart with age and is awesome)
3. NB Le Terroir
4. GI Gillian
5. The Bruery Hottenroth
6. Perennial La Boheme
7. NB Tart Lychee
8. Cascade Apricot
9. Boulevard Love Child No 3
10. RR Sanctification

 

Haven't gotten to try that yet. Is it tap room only? The 7 day sour was dece at best, but I love some other ones of theres.

 

What's a sour?

 

Hard to explain in a few words, but basically they are beers that are sour. (duh )

The description here at the top of the page should help a bit:

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/171/


A good way to learn more about the flavors involved is to pick a few of those being mentioned most often and look them up in the Database. Then read the reviews.

Here's an example to get you started:

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16866/51741/

 

no chez no care

 

They bottle it as well. It's a solid berlinner, best I've had, but the price is prohibitive.
P.S. also check out red swingline from trinity. I think it puts le terrior in the dirt. Best hoppy sour (trinity deems it an IPA primatiif).

 

You don't know shit, you big stupid douche. Jester King is hands down the worst brewery I have every consumed.

 

Too funny.

How many breweries have you every consumed...lol
Who's the BSD now?