motobrewer
I'm no atheist scientist, but...
my sour exposure has been:
some sour brown ale my buddy ordered while at a bar in madison. Didn't care for it, tasted like bile.
New Glarus Enigma, a sour brown which again had too much more going on than just "sour". Better than the above, but still a little too out there for me.
then i had a homebrewed sour cherry ale at a homebrew club meeting. it was fantastic.
so the next time i was at the liquor store I grabbed a bottle of Rose de Gambrinus from Cantillon, thinking that I better start off with a fruit lambic. It sat in my fridge for a month because i was afraid to open it. Then a good friend of mine who is into interesting beer and sort of into sours came over, and we split it.
What an excellent beer! Sour to the bone, but a refreshing sour, like sour candy. i'll have to pick up their kriek, fou foune (apricot) and maybe try their straight gueze. I think i'm a sour convert.
some sour brown ale my buddy ordered while at a bar in madison. Didn't care for it, tasted like bile.
New Glarus Enigma, a sour brown which again had too much more going on than just "sour". Better than the above, but still a little too out there for me.
then i had a homebrewed sour cherry ale at a homebrew club meeting. it was fantastic.
so the next time i was at the liquor store I grabbed a bottle of Rose de Gambrinus from Cantillon, thinking that I better start off with a fruit lambic. It sat in my fridge for a month because i was afraid to open it. Then a good friend of mine who is into interesting beer and sort of into sours came over, and we split it.
What an excellent beer! Sour to the bone, but a refreshing sour, like sour candy. i'll have to pick up their kriek, fou foune (apricot) and maybe try their straight gueze. I think i'm a sour convert.
