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Our Richmond site is having a little facelift and will re-open on June 18th. Orders will be dispatched from our Surrey Hills location. Pickup is still available at our Richmond site.
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.

  • Deschutes Planéte Rouge 500ml
    Deschutes Brewery
    $44.99

    A complex ale, barrel aged in wine and brandy barrels brimming with notes of dark red fruit and apple.

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  • Jackie O's Hockhocking 500ml
    Jackie O's
    $33.99

    This is a beautiful beer created to celebrate a great music festival that happens in Nelsonville OH right outside of the town of Athens. Nelsonvill...

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  • Wild Barrel Vice Apricot Peach 473ml Can
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    Wild Barrel Brewing
    $17.50

    Berliner Vice style beer made w/ Apricots & Peaches.

    $17.50
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  • Novo Brazil Amazonia 473ml Can
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    Novo Brazil Brewing
    $10.99

    Clean balanced sour ale that�s not to tart.

    $10.99
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  • The Bruery Frucht: Cucumber (2019) 473ml Can
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    The Bruery
    from $9.50

    Frucht gets its complexity from a blend of Brettanomyces yeasts and Lactobacillus bacteria. We add Cucumber to give it a refreshing coolness, and a...

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  • Stillwater ASMR Frisson 002 473ml Can
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    Stillwater Artisanal
    $14.99

    Sour ale brewed with chamomile, lemon & wildflower honey.

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  • Cascade Kriek (2016) 750ml
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    Cascade Brewing
    $41.99

    Kriek is a blend of sour red ales aged in oak wine barrels for up to 17 months with Bing and sour pie cherries. As one of Cascade Brewing's earlies...

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  • Cascade Figaro (2015) 750ml
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    Cascade Brewing
    $46.99

    Figaro is a blend of sour blond ales aged in Chardonnay barrels for up to 18 months with dried white figs, lemon peel and orange peel. Elegant and ...

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  • Almanac Strawberry Basil Sournova 473ml Can
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    Almanac Beer Company
    $13.50

    Farmhouse Ale Aged In Oak Barrels With Strawberries & Basil.

    $13.50
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  • Almanac Blackberry Sournova 473ml Can
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    Almanac Beer Company
    from $13.50

    Sour Ale Aged In Oak Barrels With Blackberries.

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  • Stone Notorious P.O.G Berliner Weisse 355ml Can
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    Stone Brewing
    from $7.99

    This beer is the culmination of a journey begun on our Stone World Bistro & Gardens - Liberty Station 10bbl brewhouse. The twists and turns inc...

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  • A bottle of Mas Agave by founder beer
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    Founders Brewing Co.
    $15.99

    We love cocktails. Like, really love them. If you ask us, few are more refreshing than the tart and tangy margarita and our latest barrel-aged b...

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    $15.99
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  • Prairie Lil'Nap 355ml Can
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    Prairie Artisan Ales
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    Sour Ale aged on Cedar Spirals with Blackberry & Lime.

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  • The Bruery Terreux Goses are Red 473ml Can
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    The Bruery
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    This is a ros� - and a gose - by any other name. Goses are Red is a stylish match of a funky, crisp and tart gose with the soft sweetness of a ros�...

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  • Central State Polyjuice Potion 330ml Can
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    Central State Brewing
    $9.99

    Sour Ale w/ Plum & Elderberry.

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  • Against the Grain Erogenous Rhone 500ml
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    Against the Grain
    $19.99

    This is the beer you seek, you covet it. Your eyes move up and down the bottle, sating [sic] your need for this beer. Concupiscent and red, you can...

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    $19.99
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  • Modern Times Fruitlands 473ml Can
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    Modern Times Beer
    $8.99

    Named for The Big Lake of the Booming Rollers in Carl Sandburg's "Rootabaga Stories"-- a beloved collection of fantastic children's stories--this b...

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  • Hermitage Spiced Apple Sour 375ml
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    Hermitage
    $23.99

    Sour red ale fermented with Brett and aged in oak barrels for 18 to 24 months, blended with sweet apples and spiced with cinnamon and anise.

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  • Deschutes Family Tree Peach Sour 500ml
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    Deschutes Brewery
    $32.99

    Belgian-style dubbel aged in Pinot Noir casks for a year, secondary fermentation with Brettanomyces, conditioned on figs, hints of brown sugar and ...

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    $32.99
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  • Deschutes The Dissident - Marionberry 500ml
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    Deschutes Brewery
    $44.99

    Fermented for more than 18 months in isolation from the rest of the beers, The Dissident is a distinctive Oud Bruin, Flanders-style brown ale, with...

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  • Deschutes The Dissident 2018 Reserve 500ml
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    Deschutes Brewery
    $44.99

    Fermented for more than 18 months in isolation from the rest of the beers, The Dissident is a distinctive Oud Bruin, Flanders-style brown ale, with...

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  • Deschutes The Dissident 2017 Reserve 650ml
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    Deschutes Brewery
    $54.99

    Fermented for more than 18 months in isolation from the rest of the beers, The Dissident is a distinctive Oud Bruin, Flanders-style brown ale, with...

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    $54.99
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  • New Belgium Transatlantique Kriek 375ml
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    New Belgium
    $18.99

    Winner of a gold medal at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival, Transatlantique Kriek begins its life in oaken vessels of Gert Christiaens� Oud Be...

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    $18.99
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  • Prairie Hulk Hands Dry Hopped Gose 355ml Can
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    Prairie Artisan Ales
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    Gose dry hopped with Falconer's Flight and Cascade Hops.

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  • Bear Republic Sonoma Tart Guava & Passionfruit Sour 355ml
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    Bear Republic
    $7.50

    A golden ale kettle soured with the addition of Tartare and fruited with guava and passion fruit. Delicious fruit flavors with a sweet and tart fin...

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    $7.50
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  • Cascade Blackcap Raspberry 750ml
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    Cascade Brewing
    $39.99

    This NW style sour blond ale was barrel aged for 28 months before spending an additional two months on 300+ pounds of Black Cap raspberries: think ...

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  • Cascade The Vine 750ml
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    Cascade Brewing
    $41.99

    This Northwest Style Sour Ale is a blend of soured Triple, Blonde Quad and Golden ales that have been refermented with the fresh pressed juice of w...

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  • Cascade Elderberry 750ml
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    Cascade Brewing
    $38.99

    This live barrel of NW style sour red ale was initially aged for six months in French oak wine barrels, then additionally aged on elderberries. Sha...

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  • Cascade Blueberry 750ml
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    Cascade Brewing
    $39.99

    This NW style sour ale blends wheat & blond ales that were oak aged in barrels for 6 mths, then additionally aged 4 mths on fresh blueberries. ...

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  • Alesong Kriek 500ml
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    Alesong Brewing & Blending
    $39.99

    Robed in bright vermillion and with an aroma reminiscent of fresh cherry pie, our Kriek is a humble nod to Belgian Lambic brewers who craf...

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    $39.99
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  • New Belgium Felix Aged in Apple Whiskey Barrels 375ml
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    New Belgium
    $18.99

    Single Foeder Golden Sour Ale Aged In Apple Flavoured Whiskey Barrels. Soured Felix base aged in Leopold Brothers Apple Whiskey barrels, a golden c...

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    $18.99
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  • Almanac Raspberry Sunshine 375ml
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    Almanac Beer Company
    $23.99

    Raspberry Sunshine is like drinking a bowl of farm fresh raspberries. Refreshingly tart with a rich and jammy aroma, this brettanomyces-fermented f...

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  • Anchorage Anadromous 375ml
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    Anchorage
    $27.99

    Black sour fermented in French oak foudres with a Belgian yeast, aged one year in pinot noir and whisky barrels with lacto pedio and brett. Finishe...

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    $27.99
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  • Anderson Valley Cherry Gose 355ml Can
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    Anderson Valley
    from $6.50

    Gose brewed with bright bing cherry extract.!

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  • Almanac Strawberry & Basil 375ml
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    Almanac Beer Company
    $23.99

    Strawberry & Basil is a barrel-aged farmhouse ale born of the Santa Cruz Coast. This wild ale is built on a mountain of fresh seaside strawberr...

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    $23.99
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  • Hermitage Solera Golden Ale 750ml
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    Hermitage
    $35.99

    Sour wild ale aged in our foeder with wild yeasts. By only removing a fraction of a foeder�s contents, each release keeps our Solera projects ali...

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    $35.99
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  • Almanac Foudre Punch 375ml
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    Almanac Beer Company
    $23.99

    Sour blonde ale aged in oak with raspberries, blueberries and cherries. Foudre Punch is a party and all of our favorite fruits are invited. After m...

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  • Almanac Tropical Galaxy 375ml
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    Almanac Beer Company
    $23.99

    Tropical Galaxy is a cosmic elixir of lush equatorial flavors. We blended pineapple, mango, lime and coconut together in oak foedres with our farmh...

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  • Jolly Pumpkin Keiki No More 750ml
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    Jolly Pumpkin
    $32.99

    Keiki No More is a saison base that was then refermented with raspberry, lime, and lime peel. This is a very special beer, brewed in celebration of...

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    $32.99
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  • New Belgium Le Terroir 375ml
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    New Belgium
    $19.99

    Le Terroir is a French term meaning �Of the Earth.� Used to reference the environmental conditional that affect the brew, we like to think about th...

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  • Two Roads / Evil Twin Geyser Goes 473ml Can
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    Evil Twin Brewing
    $9.99

    Our first ever collaboration brewed with Jeppe from Evil Twin. Two Evil twist on gose with ingredients sourced from Iceland including Icelandic mos...

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  • Evil Twin Rhubarb Compote Sour 473ml Can
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    Evil Twin Brewing
    $12.99

    Berliner style weisse ale with rhubarb and vanilla added

    $12.99
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  • Almanac Cherry Berry 375ml
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    Almanac Beer Company
    $22.99

    Cherry Berry Sour is a summer fruit platter fresh from the barrel. We combined some of our favorite summer fruit together to make this delicious fr...

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  • Crooked Stave Sour Rosé 355ml Can
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    Crooked Stave
    $8.50

    Wild Ale Fermented in Oak on Second-Use Raspberries and Blueberries Primary fermented with our mixed culture of wild yeast, Sour Rosé undergoes fer...

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    $8.50
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  • Crooked Stave Petite Sour Raspberry 375ml
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    Crooked Stave
    $16.99

    Wild Ale Aged on Oak with Raspberries

    $16.99
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  • Crooked Stave Petite Sour Peach 375ml
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    Crooked Stave
    $16.99

    Wild Ale Aged on Oak with Colorado Peaches

    $16.99
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  • Crooked Stave Surette Reserva Sour Cherry 750ml
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    Crooked Stave
    $44.99

    Provision sour ale aged in oak barrels with Colorado Montmorency cherries.

    $44.99
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  • Crooked Stave Surette Reserva Raspberry 750ml
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    Crooked Stave
    $44.99

    Provision Sour Ale aged in oak barrels with Washington Raspberries.

    $44.99
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