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Richmond Opening Hours: Monday CLOSED, Tuesday-Thursday MIDDAY - 7PM, Friday & Saturday 11AM-8PM, Sunday MIDDAY-7PM. Parcels dispatched Tues-Friday.
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.

  • The Rare Barrel Cosmic Dust 375ml
    The Rare Barrel
    $37.99

    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
    The Rare Barrel
    $33.99

    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
    $36.99

    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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    $36.99
  • Bridge Road Mayday Hills Apricot Wild Ale 750ml
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    Bridge Road Brewers
    $34.99

    Mayday Hills is our barrel and farmhouse beer project. These beers are fermented or aged in wooden foeders or barrels and reflect our local townshi...

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  • Wildflower Gold Blend #31 750ml
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    Wildflower Brewing & Blending
    $28.50

    A balanced six barrel blend with good oak elements... spicy and creamy, very vinous. Toasty, mandarin marmalade and honeyed aromas. The palate is v...

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  • Wildflower Bright Side: Gamay 750ml
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    Wildflower Brewing & Blending
    $21.99

    The Bright Side beers are two friend’s attempt to view the world with a glass half-full. When Bryan Martin (Ravensworth Wines) realised his vines w...

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  • Wildflower Bright Side: Shiraz 750ml
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    Wildflower Brewing & Blending
    $21.99

    The Bright Side beers are two friend’s attempt to view the world with a glass half-full. When Bryan Martin (Ravensworth Wines) realised his vines w...

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  • Dollar Bill Autumn Parlay 2021 375ml
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    Dollar Bill Brewing
    $20.99

    Blueberry Wild Ale. Weyerman malt fermented on indigenous yeasts and spontaneous ferment barrel aged beer aged in ex-pinot barrels combined with Bu...

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  • Dollar Bill Gold Teeth 750ml
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    Dollar Bill Brewing
    $34.50

    Peach wild ale 70% Pilsner malt 30% Wheat Malt wild yeasts and brewers yeast Mosaic hop pellets 19 IBU Spontaneously fermented barrel aged ale rest...

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    $34.50
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  • Garage Project Shinrin-Yoku 750ml
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    Garage Project
    $32.99

    Literally ‘forest bathing’ in Japanese, Shinrin-yoku is the calming and rejuvenative act of walking slowly through a forest, allowing the senses to...

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  • Tallboy & Moose Fun Dip Dry-Hopped Oat Cream Sour 440ml Can
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    Tallboy & Moose
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    A beauty oat cream sour that we fell in love with. With a heavy hand on the lactose and a bright acidity, this sweet and sour baby has also been dr...

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  • Future Mountain Let The Day Begin 375ml
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    Future Mountain Brewing And Blending
    $18.99

    Let the day begin is a Golden Sour aged in oak barrels and infused with coffee by Future Mountain Brewing and Everyday Coffee Collingwood. This bar...

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  • Boatrocker Harmonious Funk 500ml
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    Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers
    $22.99

    Zappa dry hopped 100 year old Foeder Australian Wild Ale… Wow! That was a mouthful! This beer is inspired by the great musician Frank Zappa and a g...

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    $22.99
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  • Boatrocker La Fleur - Elderflower Aged Sour 2021 500ml
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    Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers
    $22.99

    Elderflower 100 year old foeder Australian Wild Ale. The story behind the foeder is an amazing one… Originally from the old Stonyfell Winery in the...

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  • Blue Owl Cool & the Gang 355ml Can
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    Blue Owl Brewing
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    Sour Summer Beer w/Earl Grey Tea (collaboration w/Lazarus Brewing Co.)

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  • Blue Owl Plum De Plume 355ml Can
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    Blue Owl Brewing
    from $9.50

    Plum Jam & Orange Marmalade SourLike settling down in the cool shade for a picnic in the park, Plum de Plume embodies lazy late summer days lou...

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  • Wildflower Gold Blend #30 750ml
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    Wildflower Brewing & Blending
    $29.99

    A balanced six barrel blend with good oak elements... spicy and creamy, very vinous. Toasty, mandarin marmalade and honeyed aromas. The palate is v...

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  • Wildflower The Vibe of the Thing 750ml
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    Wildflower Brewing & Blending
    $26.99

    The Vibe of the Thing is a young Australian Wild Ale made with organic raw spelt which commenced fermentation in our copper coolship.

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  • Wildflower Amber Blend #30 750ml
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    Wildflower Brewing & Blending
    $29.99

    Blend #30 - At release this blend shows its age. Warm comforting aromas of fresh toasted bread, sweet dried fruits, soft cocoa/milk chocolate. Dark...

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  • Black Arts Golden Wild Ale 330ml Can
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    Black Arts Brewers And Blenders
    $13.99

    Gold Blend #3 much like 1&2 was blended with barrels that showed bright tropical fruit notes, blended with beer to balance the funk and oak, fi...

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  • Black Arts Biere De Coupage 330ml Can
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    Black Arts Brewers And Blenders
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    This beer is 50% young saison that was dry hopped with 8g/L Citra and blended with some 1 year old beer that showed complex funk, oak and acidity. ...

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  • Garage Project Chance, Luck & Magic 750ml
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    Garage Project
    $59.99

    The ultimate expression of Wild Workshop’s inner city terroir. An artful blend of three years’ worth of 100% spontaneously fermented beer, brewed w...

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  • La Sirene Cuvee Bleu 375ml
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    La Sirene Brewing
    $27.50

    Single barrel release. 24 month barrel aged Chardonnay grapes cofermented wild ale with whole blueberries

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  • Garage Project Wabi Sabi Sour 650ml
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    Garage Project
    $19.99

    The concept of Wabi Sabi is is hard to define. It is natural simplicity - flawed beauty - the way imperfection can make an object more compelling. ...

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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 Cobra Ball 473ml Can
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    Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
    $17.50

    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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  • Capital Trop Pop Sour Beer 375ml Can
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    Capital Brewing Co
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  • Dollar Bill Wild Heathcote Shiraz Co-ferment 355ml Can
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    Dollar Bill Brewing
    from $13.50

    Pilsner and Wheat Malt. Wild fermented with Shiraz Marc from the Heathcote region. Sour, complex, funky and refreshing. Suggested Track: Joey Badas...

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  • Boatrocker Jungle Jive Sour IPA 375ml Can
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    Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers
    from $5.99

    Jungle Jive brings the party with a perfect combo of sour and tropical fruit flavours. A perfect summertime refreshment.

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  • Tallboy & Moose NICE Cola Sour 440ml Can
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    Tallboy & Moose
    from $9.50

    For fans of our original Cryo IPA "Goblinoid"...we've brought out the dungeon boss version. Goblin Warlord captains the squadron with dank fruity l...

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  • Hop Nation Fool Raspberry Sour 375ml Can
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    Hop Nation
    from $6.50

    Fool is reminiscent of the famous dessert, and is both sweet and creamy with a hint of vanilla. Fermented with raspberries and with the addition of...

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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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  • Firestone Walker Big Mood 375ml
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    Firestone Walker
    $34.99

    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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    $34.99
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  • Dollar Bill Spring Parlay 2020 375ml
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    Dollar Bill
    $19.99

    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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  • La Sirene Time & Place 375ml
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    La Sirène Brewing
    $26.99

    Time & Place is the second release from our Coolship Collection aged for 2 years in premium French oak where after 100% spontaneous inoculation...

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    $26.99
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  • Temple Trident Tropical Sour 375ml Can
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    Temple Brewery & Brasserie
    from $6.99

    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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