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Top 61 Sour Beers

Popular sour beers include Berliner weisse, gose, Flanders red ale, oud bruin and lambic. Enjoy The Beer Connoisseur's highest-rated sour beers of all-time as independently reviewed by expert beer judges for the publication's Official Review!

Top 61 Sour Beers

 

#35

Pawpaw Upland Brewing Co.

95
by Joe Formanek
Pawpaw
Upland Brewing Co.

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#34

Nectarine Golden Ale pFriem Family Brewers

95
by John C. Tull
Nectarine Golden Ale
pFriem Family Brewers

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#33

Cherry Upland Brewing Co.

95
by Pat Mulloy
Cherry
Upland Brewing Co.

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#32

Atrial Rubicite Jester King Brewery
95
by John C. Tull
Atrial Rubicite
Jester King Brewery

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The first of three Jester King beers on this list, Atrial Rubicite is perhaps the Austin, Texas brewery’s best-known creation. Intensely sour with funky elements and a predominant raspberry aroma and flavor, this flawless Fruit Lambic hits all the right spots for fruited sour beers. 


#31

The Scupper Cape May Brewing Co.

95
by Pat Mulloy
The Scupper
Cape May Brewing Co.

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#30
Frightened Baby Chipmunk Call to Arms Brewing Co.

95
by Michael Bury
Frightened Baby Chipmunk
Call to Arms Brewing Co.

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Another excellently named concoction, Call to Arms Brewing in Denver, Colorado delivered a stellar Belgian-style sour beer with interesting intermingled wild elements, fruit characteristics atop a simple grain bill with very little hop incursions.


#29

Rhymes With Purple Bhramari Brewing Co.

95
by Joseph Formanek
Rhymes With Purple
Bhramari Brewing Co.

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#28
La Folie New Belgium Brewing Company

95
by Jason Johnson
La Folie
New Belgium Brewing Company

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#27

Temporarily Permanent Cape May Brewing Co.

95
by Rick Franckhauser
Temporarily Permanent
Cape May Brewing Co.

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#26

Jam Up the Mash Collective Arts Brewing

95
by Randy Scorby
Jam Up the Mash
Collective Arts Brewing

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Comments

Pags's picture
These kinds of lists are subjective and as such somewhat immune from critcism. Still any list of best sour beers without beers from Tilquin, Drie Fonteinen or Cantillon is diffucult to take seriously. Gentlepeople, back to the drawing board!
Editorial Dept.'s picture
Hi Pags, Thanks for your comment! As the disclaimer says in the introduction, this list only represents beers that our judges have reviewed in our Official Review. As such, there are a huge number of world-class sours not featured here because our judges have not reviewed them.

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