sour

Even though the gose is really a summer style, The Brewing Projekt’s Applocalypse works beautifully year round.

Top Tier Trifle—courtesy of the best sour purveyors south of the Mason-Dixon Line (Southern Grist) and one of America’s top meaderies (Garagiste Meadery)—certainly lives up to its name.

Drekker’s CHONK Peach Melba is a flavor bomb, with hints of vanilla, marshmallow and coconut, and tons and tons of peach and raspberry flavor.

Despite its 600-year-old recipe, Freigeist Bierkultur’s Geisterzug tastes anything like a traditional gose.

Metal & Beer Fest alumni KCBC (Kings County Brewers Collective) celebrate their fifth anniversary with a sour that just might get you, um, annihilated

Grab a bottle of La Sirêne’s wonderful summery Paradoxe sour before all the leaves have fallen from the trees.

Surly Brewing Company’s Pentagram might just pack a bit too much sour power.

Kiuchi Brewery’s Hitachnio Nest Anbai Ale pays homage to the ancient German brewing tradition while championing ingredients that are distinctly Japanese.

Toast the release of Zao’s new album, The Crimson Corridor, with Croatoan, the band’s incredible new beer collab with Grand Rapids’ Speciation Artisan Ales.

Tefnut is an ongoing collaboration series between Richmond’s The Veil and Swedish nomad brewing operation Omnipollo that offers radical reinterpretations of fruited gose. This one gose to 11… almost.

What’s your new favorite fruited sour from Hof ten Dormaal? Ist Kriek, of course.

Tropic Punch Ale is proof that there’s more to the world of mid-range ABV sours than just the salty Leipizig gose style, and it blows pretty much every other fruit beer out of the water.

Canadians Collective Arts Brewing have a distinct visual aesthetic that is the perfect foil to their crisp sour Jam Up the Mash.

Synopsis Dark Sour Cherry is fantastic and fun to drink, with ample amounts of cherry flavor. It’s also somewhat hard to describe.

Even Frank Castle wouldn’t punish you for enjoying a bottle of the excellent sour, The Pomisher.

What do cucumber juice, lime, Himalayan sea salt and beer have in common? Nickel Brook Brewing Co has the unlikely awesome answer.

Nightmare Brewing Company is horror and death metal enthusiast Billy Powell’s outlet for flirting with darkness and exorcising his own demons. Glasgow Smile is his latest gruesome gose.

Pleroma is named after the totality of divine powers. Can it live up to its inspiration?

Is this raspberry-dominated sour a hit?

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