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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

 

#56

The Keel Sour Beer

94
by Sandy Cockerham
The Keel
Cape May Brewing Co.

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The first of three entrants on this list from Cape May Brewing Co. in New Jersey, this stunning sour from the brewery’s barrel-aged “Stow Away Series” features a clean lactic sourness coupled with notes of dried plums, white grapes and a hint of oak from the barrel. Delightfully complex.


#55

Cuvée des Jacobins Prestige Sour Beer
94

bxy Jim Koebel
Cuvée des Jacobins Prestige
Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste

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#54

Entwined Upland Brewing Co.

94
by Joseph Formanek
Entwined
Upland Brewing Co.

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#53

Snozzberry Sour Beer

94
by Jason Johnson
Snozzberry
Green Man Brewery

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#52

Fermata Olde Mother Brewing Co.

94 
by Michael Bury
Fermata
Olde Mother Brewing Co.

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#51

Snozzberry Sour Beer

94
by Jason Johnson
VanderGhinste Oud Bruin
Brouwerij Omer VanderGhinste

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Debuting over 125 years ago, this gold standard in brewing from Belgium’s Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste is as flawless a rendition in the Oud Bruin style as can be found. A pleasant sourness in this creamy Oud Bruin balances well with a hefty malt backbone and subtle stone fruit flavors.


#50

Incorrigible Sour Beer

94 
by Richard Wong
Incorrigible
New Holland Brewing Co.

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#49

Jammer Sixpoint Brewery

94
by Rick Franckhauser
Jammer
Sixpoint Brewery

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#48

apple crumble miel brewery taproom

94
by Joseph Formanek
Apple Crumble
Miel Brewery & Taproom

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#47

Dryades Sour Beer

94
by Michael Heniff
Dryades
NOLA Brewing Company

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#46

Kiss From A Gose Sour Beer

94
by Susan Ruud
Kiss From A Gose
Peace Tree Brewing Co.

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This incredibly named Gose from Peace Tree Brewing in Knoxville, Iowa is the highest-rated Gose on our list – and with good reason. Wheaty and floral with the typical Gose sweet-and-salty tanginess, this one definitely gets our “seal” of approval.


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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!
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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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