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Sour Beer

Sour Beer

Sour has an intentionally acidic, tart or sour taste. The most common sour beer styles are Belgian: lambics, gueuze and Flanders red ale.

At one time, all beers were sour to some degree. As pure yeast cultures were not available, the starter used from one batch to another usually contained some wild yeast and bacteria. Unlike modern brewing, which is done in a sterile environment to guard against the intrusion of wild yeast, sour beers are made by intentionally allowing wild yeast strains or bacteria into the brew. Traditionally, Belgian brewers allowed wild yeast to enter the brew naturally through the barrels or during the cooling of the wort in a Koelschip open to the outside air – an unpredictable process that many modern brewers avoid.

The most common agents used to intentionally sour beer are Lactobacillus,  Brettanomyces and Pediococcus. Another method for achieving a tart flavor is adding fruit during the aging process to spur a secondary fermentation or contribute microbes present on the fruit's skin.

Because of the uncertainty involved in using wild yeast, the sour beer brewing process is extremely unpredictable. The beer takes months to ferment and can take years to mature.

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    The Rare Barrel
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    Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Pineapple, Strawberry, Cherry, Blood Orange, Raspberry, Peach, and Nectarine Monday through Friday sure ...

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  • The Rare Barrel Lotsa Heart 375ml
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    The Rare Barrel
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    Loaded with literal tons of Elephant Heart Plums from Blossom Bluff Orchards, Lotsa Heart is jam-packed with fruit character straight from the farm...

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  • The Rare Barrel Tale of Two Persimmons 375ml
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    The Rare Barrel
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    Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Hachiya and Fuyu Persimmons A Tale of Two Persimmons is a golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with Hach...

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  • The Rare Barrel Earl of Granate 375ml
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    The Rare Barrel
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    Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Pomegranate and Earl Grey Tea Earl of Granate is a tart beverage packed with a multitude of flavors. Mix...

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  • The Rare Barrel Cosmic Dust 375ml
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    Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with hibiscus Cosmic Dust is an interstellar adventure through the never-ending void that is space and time. ...

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  • The Rare Barrel Forces Unseen 375ml
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    The Rare Barrel
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    Forces Unseen is a blend of three different golden sour beers aged in oak barrels. Each batch of Forces Unseen highlight a unique mix of yeast and ...

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  • Lindemans Goyck 750ml
    Lindemans
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    Goyck is a blend beer from a top fermented beer 'Toots' and a beer of spontaneous fermentation 'Lindemans Lambic'. The bottle refermentation with '...

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  • Boon Geuze VAT 108 bis Mono Blend 375ml
    Brouwerij Boon
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    Oude Geuze Vat 108 bis, the successor of the prizewinning Vat 108, was made with the very last filling of foeder #108. Strong, robus & balanced...

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  • Brasserie Dunham Jane Doe - Assemblage Hors Série #10 750ml
    Brasserie Dunham
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    Blend of sour beers and foudre beer with acerola.

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    3 Ravens
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    Fruited sour beer with lactose and vanilla. Based on our original sour beer ACID, this seasonal variation includes rolled wheat and lactose to prov...

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  • Bonehead Already Gone Summer Sour 375ml Can
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    Bonehead Brewing
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    B O N A F I D EMixed culture (Kluyveromyces and Saccharomyces) sour. Perfect refreshment for summer.• Smells – Stone fruit hints of strawberry.• Ta...

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  • Black Project Archangel 473ml Can
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    Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
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    Roams the expanse of your mind, casting spells of honeydew and pineapple with every step. These are two distinct flavors that somehow magically mel...

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  • Black Project Cobra Ball 473ml Can
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    Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
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    Fuzzy white peach and bright cranberry bend the laws of physics, creating an aluminum-clad black hole of refreshing fruit sour complexity.

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  • Wild Barrel Vice Pineapple & Pomegranate 473ml Can
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    Wild Barrel Brewing
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    Berliner Weisse w/ Pineapple & Pomegranate added

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  • The Rare Barrel Some Beach 375ml
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    The Rare Barrel
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  • Lindemans HORAL's Oude Geuze Mega Blend 2019 750ml
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    Lindemans
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    For this bottling of the old Gueuze megablend 2019, 8 different breweries and blending companies mixed lambic together. This mega blend was special...

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  • Capital Trop Pop Sour Beer 375ml Can
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    Capital Brewing Co
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  • Dollar Bill Honey Mesquite Golden Ale 355ml Can
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    Dollar Bill Brewing
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    Sour barrel aged golden ale, rested on mesquite smoked malt and honey malt, aged 18 months.

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  • Bentspoke How's It Gosen? Cherry Gose 375ml Can
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    BentSpoke Brewing Company
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    Drifting in for Summer is a cheery, cherry, salty sour ale. Refreshing, blushing and full of summer sunset!

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  • Boatrocker Jungle Jive Sour IPA 375ml Can
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    Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers
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    Jungle Jive brings the party with a perfect combo of sour and tropical fruit flavours. A perfect summertime refreshment.

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  • Beatnik Raspberry Sour 375ml Can
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    Hargreaves Hill
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    A Refreshing slightly sour Berliner Weisse Jam-packed with raspberries. Perfect for hanging in the park or sitting by the pool.

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  • Mountain Culture Daily Dose Passionfruit Gose 355ml Can
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    Mountain Culture Beer Co.
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    Brewed with passionfruit, galaxy hops and himalayan rock salt, this sessionable sour has light acidity. So take your daily dose and enjoy the trip.

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  • Mountain Culture Disco Bubbles 355ml Can
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    Mountain Culture Beer Co.
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    Spring has sprung so it’s time to get our sour on! Disco Bubbles is packed full of fresh Motueka hops from New Zealand. It’s zingy, bright, citru...

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  • Deeds Milk Bar Series #4 Blueberry & Raspberry Sour 440ml Can
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    Deeds Brewing
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    A dessert inspired sour ale brimming with nostalgia, our Milk Bar series pays homage to the family owned corner stores throughout Australia. Our Im...

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  • Stone & Wood Counter Culture - The Earl of Swirl 500ml Can
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    Stone & Wood
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    LET UR LOVE UNFURL Lose urself with The Earl of Swirl… The Earl of Swirl, our Berry Cream Sour and the ninth limited Counter Culture release. A ...

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  • 3 Ravens Pina Colada Creamsicle 375ml Can
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    3 Ravens
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    Based on our Original Sour Beer “Acid”, this seasonal variation includes rolled wheat and lactose to provide an extra silky body, vanilla, coconut ...

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  • 3 Fonteinen Framboos Oogst 2019 (season 18|19) 750ml
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    3 Fonteinen
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    For this specific raspberry we used summer raspberries. We kept the maceration short to allow the fruitiness, fruit acids and soft lambic to merge ...

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  • 3 Fonteinen Hommage Bio Frambozen 375ml
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    3 Fonteinen
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    Hommage BIO Frambozen/Raspberries consists of 1 & 2 year-old lambic and has a final fruit intensity of 40% 76% of BIO-organic raspberries &a...

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  • Amundsen Parallel Worlds Pastry Sour 440ml Can
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    Amundsen Bryggeri
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    Fresh New England style IPA with Simcoe, Mosaic, Idaho 7 & Citra.

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  • Firestone Walker Big Mood 375ml
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    Firestone Walker
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    A new wild child in collaboration with Sante Adairius Rustic Ale’s, co-fermented with Blenheim apricots grown in Hollister CA, along with Santa Yne...

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  • Firestone Walker Blue Love 375ml
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    Firestone Walker
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    Starting with a selection of our Lil Opal Saison barrels that had been ageing for 18 to 31 months, we then blended in over 10,000 pounds of "Blue C...

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  • Moon Dog Pat Pash Passionfruit Sour Ale 330ml Can
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    Moon Dog
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    Our Magnificent Mullets continue with another cracking fruited sour! This time it's Pat Cash

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  • Dollar Bill Spring Parlay 2020 375ml
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    Dollar Bill
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    Spring Rhubarb Sour Ale. A blend of wild ferment ale and barrel aged golden ale rested on fresh spring rhubarb. Light sour refreshing and funky wit...

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  • 8 Wired Mandarin Hippy Berliner 440ml Can
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    8 Wired Brewing Co.
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    We've remixed this lovechild of a Berliner Weisse and an IPA with bushels of sweet Mandarins. Amercian and N.Z hops deliver juicy fruit flavours an...

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  • 8 Wired Stone Free Apricot Sour 330ml Can
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    8 Wired Brewing Co.
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    When 8 Wired releases fruited sours, it's always a good idea to pay attention. This Hendrix inspired Kettle Sour is fermented on fresh apricots and...

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  • Wolf of the Willows Disco of the Dead Sour 440ml Can
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    Wolf Of The Willows
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    This collaborative beer celebrates the Day of the Dead with the Mexican bar, El Gallo Altanero, and Tequila Tromba, who host a yearly disco to shak...

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  • Belching Beaver Existential Joy 375ml
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    Belching Beaver Brewery
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  • Temple Trident Tropical Sour 375ml Can
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    Temple Brewery & Brasserie
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    A thirst-quenching tartness, light body and low bitterness allow punchy tropical aromas and flavours of Mango, Pineapple, and Passionfruit from a g...

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  • Westside Ale Works Ida Pruul Wild Golden Sour 355ml Can
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    Westside Ale Works
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    Spontaneously fermented in ex-Shiraz barrels. The unique fermentation adds complexity and subtle notes of passionfruit and pineapple.

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  • Duncan's Sloe Gin Gose 440ml Can
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    Duncan's Brewing
    $11.99

    A tangy sorbet sour. Sloe berries, juniper berries, a dash of sea salt, and coriander invoke the classic cocktail ‘Sloe Gin Fizz’.

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  • Hop Nation Site FP Single Foudre Sour Blonde 375ml Can
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    Hop Nation
    $15.50

    Our latest Site Fermentation Project series is an ode to the beloved foedre—so many stories tie back to this humble barrel. Our oak foedre barrel ...

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  • Les Trois Mousquetaires Ceci N'est Pas Une Kriek 2019 750ml
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    Les Trois Mousquetaires
    $33.99

    his Belgian inspired beer is fermented and aged in oak barrels with wild yeast and tart cherry.

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  • Brasserie Dunham Assemblage No.6 750ml
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    Brasserie Dunham
    $29.99

    This blend number 6 is an ode to red fruits, and what they can give when wild yeasts join in to complicate the primary accents. A blend of our Kekr...

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  • Mr Banks Look Out Peach Gose 355ml Can
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    Mr Banks Brewing Co
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    Salted Peach Sour, ultra refreshing and super crushable. A new seasonal release just in time for the warmer months.

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  • Tallboy & Moose Natty Lime Squeezer 375ml Can
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    Tallboy & Moose
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    Sauv. Blanc & Lime Gose - After some initial beer/wine hybrid ideas were kiboshed by covid we have revisited them with our old friends and new ...

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  • Bad Shepherd Pina Colada Sour 355ml Can
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    Bad Shepherd Brewing Co.
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    Remember what summer feels like? Well this is what it tastes like! Let juicy pineapple fruit, creamy coconut Sabro hops and funky Philly Sour yeast...

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  • De Troch Oude Kriek 375ml
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    Brouwerij De Troch
    $19.99

    Reintroduced in 2015 it's the first Oude Kriek the brewery has produced since the 1980's. Made with lambic brewed in March 2014, and blended with 3...

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  • Wild Barrel Vice Mango Lychee 473ml Can
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    Wild Barrel Brewing
    $17.50

    Berliner Weisse with Mango & Lychee added

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