![]() You might say that the only other requirement is that the beer must be sour-or at least claim to be. Flanders red ales and oud bruins are alongside dry-hopped American kettle sours, which are alongside oak-aged fruited sours and other beers freshly dumped from whiskey or tequila barrels. ![]() Berliner weisse and gose, on the other hand, are so well established now on their own that each of them really deserves its own tasting-something that we will address in the August tasting, which will tackle gose specifically.Įverything else that is tart in the world of beer can be found in this tasting. There are plenty of tart saisons, but as you probably recall, we just blind-tasted 116 of them last month. It’s perhaps easiest to simply state which types of beer were NOT included: Saison/farmhouse ale, Berliner weisse and gose. Others are so uniquely bizarre that we barely knew what to do with them. Some of these beers bear a passing resemblance to each other. It includes many styles of beer, brewed with a dizzying array of fruits, spices, barrels and strains of funk-forward yeast and bacteria. This is a large tasting, and a wide-ranging one that includes beers from some of the country’s most sought-after sour beer producers. In the end, the only way is to make a decision and stick with it. barrel-aged sours? Different strains of bacteria and wild yeast? How do you compare all of them to each other? And what of other “sour beer” styles that are now better defined in the American market, such as Berliner weisse or gose? Every beer just raises further questions about which other beers should be included. ![]() ![]() Approaching “sour beers” or “wild ales” for this style of tasting is like venturing into a quagmire of conflicting styles and substyles-you’re just hoping to find your way out again, when all is said and done. On some level, what you’re about to read is the most schizophrenic of all Paste blind tastings. Click here to view all entries in the series. This list is part of a Paste series of bottom shelf liquor and craft beer style tastings. ![]()
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