28 Best Sour Beers For Your Next Beer Tasting
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Tired of drinking the same old beer? Tired of boring, bland beers that leave you feeling unsatisfied? This article is for you!
Sour beers are beers that taste exceptionally acidic and vibrant. Sour beers may produce the perfect blend of sweet and tart flavors by combining fruits like cherry, raspberry, and peach.
Sour beers are the trendiest thing in craft beer right now. And with good reason! There's something here for everyone, including a huge variety to choose from. There'll be no shortage of options that will satisfy your taste buds and curiosity about what makes these 28 sour brews so special.
Our Top Picks
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Best Overall - New Belgium La Folie• Fermented and aged in foeders |
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Best Traditional Sour Beer - Side Project Brewing Blueberry Flanders• Easy-drinking beer |
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Most Fruity - New Park Blender - Raspberry• Has a great mix of sweetness and acidity |
1. New Belgium La Folie - Best Overall
This best sour brown is matured for one to three years in large oak barrels called Foeders. La Folie is sharp and acidic, with green apple, cherry, and plum peel notes. The mouthfeel is silky, the body is medium, and the bitterness is mild.
2. Side Project Brewing Blueberry Flanders - Best Traditional Sour Beer
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This best sour beer has a sour lactic taste with delicious cherry and vanilla aroma. The combination of blueberry and plum and the rolling bread toast add to the complexity.
Lactic and acetic acids are in a good proportion. Upfront, there's a puckering acidity with a bittering cherry or lime flavor. The linger has a long-lasting bright, fruity sourness.
3. Allagash Coolship Resurgam
Pilsner malt, fresh wheat, and aged hops combine to make Coolship Resurgam. The beer is chilled overnight using the ambient temperature in a classic huge, shallow pan called a coolship.
Lemon zest, apricot, and candied fruit dominate the scent of the final brew. A crisp, acidic, and dry finish emerges from tropical notes and funk aromas.
4. J. Wakefield Miami Madness
This world-famous Florida Weisse is made with three different fruits. The sourness and sweetness of guava, mango, and passionfruit create a refreshing beer. Miami Madness has also been rated number one on many beer rating websites and review resources.
5. Firestone Walker Bretta Rosé
The base profile for this masterpiece is a low-alcohol Berliner Weisse-type brew that has been acidified and matured for about six months in French oak puncheons.
A crisp, effervescent creation overflowing with raspberry aroma and taste, a rosé hue, bracing acidity, and a clean and refreshing finish resulted from the addition of 1000 lbs. of fresh raspberries and allowing a secondary natural fermentation for four months.
6. Side Project Brewing Balaton
Balaton is an ale that was matured for more than a year in local Chambourcin Barrels. It is just 5% ABV, with a higher amount of Brett contribution and a more effective oak influence to counteract the acidity.
This beer has a pleasant cherry taste, as well as good acidity and tartness, which contribute to its complex flavors.
7. Two Roads Persian Lime Gose
The scent of this beer starts with a punch of lime zest and citrus, followed by light toasted pale malts in the background. In terms of flavor, the salt is more prominent. The lime is secondary, and it finishes clean and sharp. It has a medium body and is an excellent beer overall.
8. Cigar City Margarita Gose
Margarita has a semi-clear golden orange color with thin, short-lived foam and a marine scent. The base Gose is salty and viscous, with a hint of lime and orange riding on top. With a salty-sour aftertaste, the swallow is smooth and full. This beer is light, fruity, and refreshing, making it ideal for summer.
9. Wild Beer Sleeping Lemons
A delightfully lemony, salty, and refreshingly pleasant summer beer prepared with preserved lemons. The Moroccan custom of preserving lemons in salt provided the concept for Sleeping Lemons. Traditionally made with salt and coriander as a low-alcohol wheat beer.
10. Howling Hops Hit or Miss Rhubarb Pastry Sour
This beer is full of juicy rhubarb, and the lactose gives it a remarkable smoothness. It's sweeter than sour, but it's still a perfect drop of beer. Lactose provides the profile with a fuller feel and provides an excellent body.
11. Funky Buddha Veruca Snozzberry Gose
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This is a fantastic gose, with a robust, fresh, and sweet passion fruit taste that doesn't overshadow the fairly light and drinking base beer. The passionfruit's mustiness pairs beautifully with the sourness of the beer.
12. Grimm Artisanal Ales Super Spruce
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A twofold dosage of resin gives Super Spruce its massive pine aromatics. A rich character of fresh pine with flowery citrus, cola, and bubble gum overtones is created by layering new growth spruce trees with Chinook hops.
This unboiled gose is brilliant and hazy, with a grapefruit-like tartness that complements the fresh coniferous notes, which are finished out with a pinch of sea salt.
13. Urban Artifact The Gadget
Berry fruit flavors dominate from start to end, with an unusual sour funkiness that adds a delightful level of depth. The aroma is a somewhat sour raspberry milkshake, with a hint of funky, tart raspberry, and blackberry juice with a note of vanilla.
This brew's 8.3 percent alcohol content is nicely disguised in the fruity flavor and might easily catch you off guard!
14. New Park Blender - Raspberry - Most Fruity
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Mosaic hops are used to make this raspberry-filled delight. The mix of acidic sourness and creamy sweetness is exactly great, and the entire product is pleasant and palatable. For fans of excessively fruity fruit beers, this is a winner.
15. The Veil Never Never Again Again - Best Gose
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Never, Never, Never Never Again is the double variant of raspberry gose. Moreover, a half-ton of raspberry purée was added to this batch, making it completely wild. It's a well-made, well-balanced drink with no traces of alcohol sting.
16. J. Wakefield DFPF
This beer ultimately lives up to its reputation. The balanced fruits come through in the flavor, and the texture is thicker than the beer itself, but not to the point of being overbearing or harsh.
17. New Holland Incorrigible
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The flavor wasn't quite as strong as that of a beer, but it was closer to that of a cider. Apple and citrus flavors are intense, with a very faint oak flavor in the background. Due to the lactobacillus, the beer had a good crisp, clean sour taste.
The spritz fruitiness of this beer is enhanced and complemented by the faint undertones of wood from the fermentation and barrel-aging.
18. Peace Tree Kiss From a Gose
This hazy, golden ale is fermented using malted wheat and barley and then soured in the kettle for a tangy finish. With a dry spiciness, coriander and hops balance off the acidity. A slight saltiness and a hint of fruitiness with lemon flavors remain.
This beer has a terrific blend of scents and tastes that make it an enjoyable beer that you'll want to consume again and again.
19. De Garde Cran Bu
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A delectable cranberry De Garde Berliner Weissbier is soft and subtle with a wonderful cranberry bloom that is extremely revitalizing. After a hot day at the pool, this is a fantastic drink to have.
This beer is very delightful with prickly carbonation and just the right amount of sharpness and acidity. Considering the low ABV, the mouthfeel is rather substantial.
20. NOLA Brewing Dryades
This edgy brew has been masterfully made. The flavor has a greater level of clean, lactic sourness, which is nicely balanced by sweet, bready malt for a delightful sweet-and-sour experience.
With substantial helpings of plums, prunes, and cherries, the beer finishes moderately bitter with a lingering sweet-and-sour flavor.
21. Wicked Weed White Angel
The first sip of this beer is dominated by the tartness. The palate follows the nose's lead, with grape and oak characteristics overpowering the orchard fruit and vinegar. All of these flavors are crisp, with a quirky aftertaste that lasts a long time and combines sweetness and acidity.
22. Upland Brewing Pawpaw
Upland Brewing is one of the few brewers that can meet that "sour" urge, whether you're looking to wake up the tastebuds or pound them into submission. Your face will pucker as you drink their pawpaw-infused sour brew. Its expressive carbonation prickles the tongue, amplifying the tart flavor and texture.
23. Jester King Atrial Rubicite
Atrial is a light-bodied wild ale, but the raspberry sweetness adds a hint of body and smooth depth to everything. Acidity is sharp and tangy but not overpowering.
There are some fantastic raspberry sours out there. But, Atrial Rubicite is a class by itself and unquestionably one of the world-class wild ales.
24. The Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze
Since its initial release in 2009, this combination of young and old barrel-aged beers has been one of The Lost Abbey's most sought-after beers. Duck Duck Gooze has an incredibly well-balanced acidity.
There's an intense explosion of acidity, like biting into a ripe stone fruit, but it quickly fades, becoming more of a lemony tang.
25. Upland Brewing Cherry
Cherry is a barrel-aged fruited sour ale with a pleasantly acidic sour ale base that highlights the particular fruit flavors of Montmorency cherries. The aroma was like putting your face in a bucket of acidic cherries with some oak and flowery notes.
The cherry flavor strikes the back of the palate, and the taste lasts, coupled with a note of apple cider and lemon.
26. Brooklyn The Discreet Charm of the Framboise
The beer has superb reddish-orange color and rich, fresh raspberry aromas complemented by the vanilla notes of American bourbon oak aging and the funkiness of Brettanomyces, a wild yeast strain.
This is a rich, nuanced sour ale with a wide range of tastes. A sour tang rushes in, bringing barrel flavors with it.
27. Captain Lawrence Rosso E Marrone
With a powerful sour brown base, this beer is really spectacular. It's incredibly woody and mature with cool nutty and chocolate-front malt components.
28. Deschutes The Dissident
The Dissident's fruit and acidity make it great for matching with various foods. The strong acidity cuts through creamy dishes and cools spicy ones. The beer goes well with chocolate because of the fruity qualities generated from the cherries.
Conclusion
Sour beers are a refreshing change from the old, bland beer you're used to. They have an amazing tart flavor that will leave you feeling satisfied on any occasion.
If you know of someone who's always drinking bland beer or is just looking for something new and exciting, this list of 28 sour beers might be perfect! What's your favorite type of sour beer?
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