{"id":3008,"date":"2019-07-15T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2021-07-07T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:11:55","slug":"beyond-the-bottle-the-summer-of-hoppy-sours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-the-bottle-the-summer-of-hoppy-sours\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: The Summer of Hoppy Sours"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Noblestar<\/a>It\u2019s harder to pinpoint beer trends these days, when anything not bolted down gets tossed in the fermenter. But the coalescence of kettle sours and hazy IPAs certainly have this summer looking like a peak moment for hoppy sours. I\u2019ll limit my disparagement of kettle sours (got that out of my system last month!) and head right on into the folks that are doing combos of hoppy and tartness well. If you\u2019re digging that August Schell Basin of Attraction\u2014go forth.<\/p>\n

New Belgium\u2019s Le Terroir is one of the old-school examples that sent a lot of us down this road. It\u2019s a dry-hopped sour ale that sees long-term aging in oak foeders, before getting dry-hopped with Amarillo and Strata, and I still remember tracking this one down in Boulder a decade back: tropical, grassy, beautifully handled throughout. Almanac Beer Co. out here in NorCal has done a bunch of \u201cHoppy Sour\u201d releases, with recent takes including Strawberry Hopcake (featuring a m\u00e9lange of fruits, plus Sabro, Citra and Cashmere hops) and Tropical Galaxy (a Brett-focused foeder beer with a hefty dry-hop of Galaxy). Cantillon\u2019s Cuvee des Champions and Iris are dry-hopped classics\u2014if you can find them. And Crooked Stave, De Garde, and Prairie have also each released a variety of hoppy + sour options as of late.<\/p>\n

Got a hoppy-sour beer you\u2019ve been digging? Chime in on Twitter via @RareBeerClub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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