Horse Tongue: 7.0 – That tart bit of sour and the wheat combine in a way that makes this feel sort of like a red ale. It’s nice and crisp, and that sour is bringing a bit of fruit, but the barrel aging brings it all down to stop it from being overpowering. It’s actually really good.
Price Average: $14 for 22oz
Website: https://avbc.com/
Trois Dames Winter Sour: 6.5 – The ginger and orange is certainly a factor in there, but there is so much tart sour and bitterness. A winter beer should be toasty and inviting, or conversely invigorating – this is an attack dog to your face. Sure there is a bit of spice as well here – which one could use to pass it off as a winter beer, but really this is just too powerful and in multiple ways isn’t pleasant.
Price Average: $7 draft
Website: https://www.sheltonbrothers.com
Disconnected: 7.5 – While it certainly leans more on the juice side of beer, there’s no denying the balance of citrus and hops here with a bit of tang and bitters is just right. It’s tropical, it’s fruity, and it’s fucken phenomenal. Out of an understanding with our IPA bias, we tend to not post/write about them here – but this is fan-tastic.
Price Average: $9 draft
Website: https://www.discordbeer.com/
To Øl 1 Ton of… Pineapple: 5.0 – Yeah, that’s a bunch on pineapple dude. You can smell the damn thing going in and having a sip while it’s not the sweet canned pinappleyou get from your fruit snacks or a ham, it’s very much like a pineapple juice w/o a lot of sugar. It’s honestly a bit too much to truly enjoy drinking (unless you into that), but does intrigue us for cooking purposes.
Price Average: $10
Website: http://www.proefbrouwerij.com/
Summer Jam: 7.5 – There is a bit of that wheat and overall pale ale flavor here, but let’s be real. This is a punch in the face of strawberries. Other strawberry beers often taste like strawberries, but in the way that you can tell, oh that’s how the berry has changed the taste of the beer. This? This taste like fucken strawberries, and we love it.
Price Average: $9 draft
Website: http://barreledsouls.com/
Hylo Sour: 7.0 – That is exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a sour ale, but you clearly get that unique dragon fruit taste. You also get a bit more of wood than smoke from the barrel aging, but it’s in no way diminished the tart. Overall it’s a damn fine sour.
Price Average: $9
Strawberry Rebus: 6.0 – There’s just a tad too little strawberry in this. It’s overall a nice sour ale, not too crazy or tart, but overall you wish that either there was another aspect to the strawberries here or lean into it all the way.
Price Average: $14
Website: https://grimmales.com/
Fruitlands Apricot Sour: 5.5 – It’s not really a big sour if we’re being fair. Oh sure it’s nice. You do get some of that fruit there, but overall it’s more a slightly odd but easy drinking ale that a real gose.
Price Average: $10 for 4-pack
Website: http://www.moderntimesbeer.com/
Ruby Tart Blonde Ale: 3.5 – The name thimble may be the company but in terms of this ‘tart blondge’ I suspect only a thimble of a true sour is in this beer. It is otherwise just a slightly odd but basic ale. While that makes it easy to drink it’s not stellar.
Price Average: $10
Oxbow Cherry Jackpot: 6.5 – Its certainly a nice cherry sour, and there is a nice sort of cream after kick. However, being Oxbow you kind of expected more. Still, though a solid beer if your into that type.
Price Average: $10 draft
Website: https://oxbowbeer.com