The Beer Thread • Page 117

If you like sour candies then I'd keep trying sour beers. It took me like a half-dozen sour beers before I started to get into them. It's difficult at first because all there is to the taste is the sour. The more you drink them, though, the more you're braced for the assertive sour the more you can then pick up the wheat or the fruit or the hops depending on the sour.

It's also entirely likely that sours just aren't your thing, which is cool.

Edit, I will say that there seems to be an arms race to make the sourest beer, much as there was with bitter IPA's a few years ago. My advice would be (and this is relative to the stuff I can get here in Michigan) is search out Cascade beers or european sours. As I said above, Rodenbach makes some wonderful sours, depending on how much you're willing to spend.

 

Brewing a sour beer requires no less sanitization than other styles of beer. Not only that, but you have to keep up those practices for months/years to keep a single batch from going bad as opposed to a couple weeks for clean beers.

Sours definitely aren't for everyone, but as someone else mentioned above, if there are some other sour food items you enjoy, I would suggest you keep trying sour beers as you'll likely find something you enjoy. "Sour beer" is a huge umbrella that covers a number of different styles and tastes.

 

A lot of breweries are making sour beers now because it's trendy and a popular style. They mostly suck. Don't let some Joe Schmoe kettled sour be the standard for which you judge these beers.

 

Great Lakes Christmas ale

 

This makes me legitimately angry. Not that shit on buzzfeed is ever well thought out or comprehensive, but jesus christ.

First thing that came to mind. I love Carton but can surpassed them long ago.

 

What brewery? That sounds disgusting. There are few solid breweries in NJ so I'd bet it's more of the brewery not knowing what they're doing and making a shitty beer than you not liking the style at all. @williek311 was the one who introduced me to sour beers a few years ago, I hated the first one I tried and I still remember him saying "once you try the right one, you'll understand."

Think it took Russian River Consecration to get me, lol, but still.

 

It was Russian River Supplication for me! I still remember the day like it was yesterday.

 

Temptation, Supplication and Consecration were actually the first sours I ever had. At a Russian River tap takeover event where I got to try Pliny for the first time too. Great day.

 

used to hate hate hate HATE sours. But i live in Florida where we've got some great breweries filling with berlinerweisses. using the local tropical fruit we have down here in the berliners has been awesome. J Wakefield's even made a name for himself with his dragonfruit passionfruit berliner. Cycle, who is known mostly for their barrel-aged stouts, has a sour program under the name Orange Belt that makes some really outstanding stuff, too. We finally even have our own sour-only brewery in Inoculum Ale Works, and they're doing some really super creative stuff!

 

I got into sours but it took having Supplication at Bells 30th anniversary party to really get me on the train. Then the Cascade stuff I've been able to try also took my interest in sours to the next level.

 

Cascade, The Bruery, Beachwood Blendery and Phantom Carriage are all frequent spots for me and are all taking the sours game to the next level consistently

 

Some of the first sours I ever tried were from The Bruery, which had me hooked immediately. Caractere Rouge was my first true love though. I remember having offerings from Cascade and Upland for the first time and being blown away by how sour they were. de Garde takes the cake for me though. If only those Tillamook ballers were reasonable traders.

 

Went to a really great event last night with rare Bruery stuff on draft, had Hoarders Cuvee which was really really fantastic, bummed I usually don't have the ability to acquire it. Also had White Chocolate and Winefication III which were both quite tasty as well

 

Caractere Rouge is just spectacular. So damn good.

 

How was White Chocolate drinking? I've only had 2013 & 2014 out of bottle and both were infected.

 

I thought it was quite tasty, certainly not infected. I think it was the 2016 version, but it was very carmel-boozy. I don't know if I would really say I tasted more than slight actual white chocolate flavor, but it was good

 

Had 2012 White Chocolate on tap at the tasting room when I was out there a few months ago and it was fantastic.

 

My girlfriend is up in Burlington for xmas and managed to snag me 4-packs of Heady and Sip of Sunshine. Merry Chirstmas to me!

 

Our beer fridge has its best lineup of all time most likely right now in preparation for Christmas tomorrow. Not gonna get through even a fraction of these of course.

Lagunitas Sucks
Lagunitas Brown Shugga
Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout (2014)
Victory Java Cask
Off Color Procats-ination
Oddside Mokka Munch
Oddside Hipster Brunch Stout
Founders Backwoods Bastard (2016)
Founders Dirty Bastard
Weltenburger Kloster Barock Dunkel
Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock
Goose Island BCBS (2015)
Goose Island Matilda
Schafly Christmas Ale
Cigar City Jai Alai
Cigar City Invasion
Oskar Blues Pasion Fruit Pinner
Buckledown Oktoberfest
Brew Bus Are Wheat There Yet
Revolution Fistmas
Brickstone APA
Pollyanna Ocular
Pollyanna Acclamation
Pollyanna Lexical Gap
Stonearch Sessions
T Joes Vintage Ale (2016)

 

I have a North Coast Old Stock Ale Cellar Reserve from 2013. Hype

 

I have an Avery - Tweak lined up for tomorrow to deal with family members

 

Expedition Stout this evening. From last year.

 

Sunday Mole Stout is so good

 

Was just gifted some Tired Hands Oblivex oh my god so good

 

you're gonna be gifted heady topper if it doesn't freeze in my car overnight