Sour Beers

[TampaBrew]

Hanssens Gueuze is very VERY good and rarely talked about. I would say it is one of the funkiest cheesiest, sourest gueuzes out there.

+1 on Isabelle. I would trade anything for a bottle of that.

[Bellmer]

From what I hear, it (Isabelle) isn't aging in the bottle as well as they had hoped.

If you can get your hands on Veritas 04, it is excellent and is much better in the bottle than it was fresh on tap.

[ChrisKennedy]

Lindeman's Cuvee Renee is pretty spectacular. It is a bit lacking in the funk, but the sourness is absolutely amazing.

[Bellmer]

Lindeman's Cuvee Renee is pretty spectacular. It is a bit lacking in the funk, but the sourness is absolutely amazing.

The best (only?) gueze you can find at some local supermarkets.

[Nate Diggler]

Had some Jolly Pumpkins over the weekend (La Roja, Maracaibo Especial, Madrugada Obscura, and Bam Noire). The La Roja and the Bam Noire were soured (the Bam only slightly), but they were ALL gushers. Some I could bleed pressure off of and save most of the bottle, but some blew their caps as soon as I bent them a little with the opener... I lost nearly half the bottles to foam. Disappointing.

[TampaBrew]

My rule of thumb on jolly pumpkin is gush = more bugs I have a store that has a stash of really old oro de calabaza. They gush all the time but are so buggy.

[Dubba_Brew]

Lindeman's Cuvee Renee is pretty spectacular. It is a bit lacking in the funk, but the sourness is absolutely amazing.

The best (only?) gueze you can find at some local supermarkets.

+1 on the Cuvee Renee... I was really surprised by this considering it's Lindeman's. It was a lot more sour than I was expecting it to be. I was almost expecting it to be more funk than sour and it was definitely the other way around.

My rule of thumb on jolly pumpkin is gush = more bugs I have a store that has a stash of really old oro de calabaza. They gush all the time but are so buggy.

My last bottle of the Oro de Calabaza was a gusher - which made me sad, because I can't get it often enough to not have a problem with losing 25% of the bottle - but the bug level in that one was really good. I think the Oro de Calabaza, the Bam Noir and Noel de Calabaza are my favorite jolly pumpkin beers. The La Roja didn't live up to the hype for me... it was good, but not as good as I was hoping. I've got a bottle of Luciernaga at home that I'm waiting to crack open.

[Gnome Brewer]

I've got a 750 of Beatification in front of me and my girlfriend can't handle the flavor of it at all, leaving the whole bottle for me, and to be honest, I don't know if I can handle the whole bottle this stuff is so intense, in a good way but still really intense, reminds me of these warhead candies I used to eat when I was a kid, beautiful orange tangerine coloring, hardly a head on here at all, horsey funk candy nose, flavor is acid, tart bitters, mild funk, and more intense sours, light body...

Now that I've taken two glasses to the dome and am starting to feel the acid in my gut, I'm compelled to play with some blending so I busted out a bottle of a golden strong (WLP500) that I brewed about eight months back, having a lot of fun blending different variations...

But the most fun part... going from the blended version back to the real thing, holy shit THIS STUFF IS INTENSE!