Up & Comers - American Wild Brewers

Nothing crazily wild going on out in Western NY, at least not to the tart/funk levels of some of the breweries mentioned above, but Abandon Brewing in Penn Yan, NY is making some tasty saisons and hoppy/funky beers. Check em out if you can!

 

I really enjoyed Boulevard Love Child #3, just picked up #4 last week and looking forward to it.

 

Almanac

 

I think Night Shift is really doing phenomenal.

 

Cisco Brewers has some gems. TRVE has wowed me now with two successive sours. Duel in Santa Fe, New Mexico keeps spitting out delicious ones.

Finally, Marble mothaeffing Brewery in Albuquerque. They just dropped Tesla, their first bottled sour offering and it was excellent, but before that there have been about ten others (Sansa, Cuvee Rouge, 111 Farmhouse et al.) that have all been exceptional.

 

Yazoo Embrace the Funk. Brandon is putting out some great things.

 

Oxbow?

 

FWIW, Victory Wild Devil is awesome. Better than Hop Savant IMHO. *hides from pitchforks*

 

O'so Brewing and The Funk Factory Gueuzeria here in WI

You can read about the Funk Factory here. They collaborated with Oso to produce some great sours already.

http://www.funkfactorygeuzeria.com/search/label/lambic

 

Came here to say trinity in colo spgs as well.

 

+1 for the Rare Barrell

 

Prairie also

 

Libertine near San luis Obispo

 

They don't seem to get a lot of love and are not distributed very widely, but I rather liked every bottle I tried from Indigo Imp in Ohio.

 

I can think of sours that were too sour for me (RR Temptation, WW Black Angel, The Bruery Sour in the Rye), but that's just personal preference and doesn't necessarily make them bad. Oh and I really liked Boulevard Love Child No. 4 but it was like tongue-numbingly sour, so I wouldn't be able to stand more than 4 oz of it.

 

Besides the usual suspects,I like The Commons, Almanac and Upright.

 

Wicked Weed continues to amaze. Really excited that their separate barrel house/sour facility is operational now. Strangeways in Richmond, VA is worth a mention. They're still pretty small but making some solid wild ales.

 

Sours do not equal wild - please disintguish.

 

Draai Laag Brewing. A small brewery near Pittsburgh I would describe as an up and coming brewery brewing some new and interesting Belgians, sours, and wild ales. Not widely distributed yet, but worth checking out if you are near the city.

 

Avery has made some phenomenal beers. I had a Rufus Corvus recently that was quite expensive, but very impressive.