Belgian is the king of Sour beers.... at least that's what I thought before doing some research on Breweries in the US that are diving into the barrel of funky, sour, and brett beers! Yes Belgian is king when it comes to sheer volume, consistency, quality, and taste. But sour beer is definitely picking up steam in the US.
I for one would love to be able to go to the liquor store and find a whole section of Sour or Brett beers made in the USA. Supply definitely isn't keeping up with demand. Case in point, last week I was at the Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California. I was extremely stoked in anticipation to try some of their sour offerings. I walked up to their taps and bottles and to my dismay couldn't find a single sour beer available. Yes their other offering are amazing, both from The Lost Abbey and the Pizza Port. But with almost 1500 Barrels full of sour beer across the street in their warehouse, clearly the supply is not able to keep up with the demand. The US market mainly is in "experimentation mode" with their sour beer production. Only a few breweries in the US are consistently putting out sour beer with most of the beers produced being "one offs" never to be seen again and drank by a select few. Right now Belgian is an extremely mature market while the US is in it's infancy. It'll be interesting to see the US sour beer market mature!
If you haven't tried any of these wild beers, I highly recommend it as they can be some of the most unique, refreshing, tart, complex, amazing beverages you will ever try in your life. Think tart apples, grapes, wine, tart cherries, and refreshing fruit
| Allagash Brewing Co. | The Grumpy Troll Restaurant and Brewery |
| Confluence | Ginger Tart |
| Gargamel | Cherry Brew |
| Interlude | Peach |
| Larry | Raspberry |
| Vagabond | Sunshine |
| Victor Francenstein | |
| Avance | Goose Island Beer Company |
| Coolship Cerise | |
| Coolship Red | Juliet |
| Coolship Resurgam | Sofie |
| Indigenuts | Amara |
| Mattina Rossa | Athena |
| Vrienden | Blackberry Dominique |
| Kinison | Bourbon Barrel Aged Lolita |
| Little Big Beer | Bourbon Barrel Aged Sour Raspberry Matilda |
| My Other Brother Daryl | Cherry Dominique |
| Dominique | |
| The Alchemist Pub & Brewery | Grapefruit Sofie |
| Lolita | |
| Bacchus | Madame Rose |
| Celia Framboise | Mae |
| Mis-information | Pepe Claussenii |
| Petit Mutant | Pepe Nero |
| Whonky | Pomegranate Juliet |
| Wild Child | Sour Grapes |
| Sour Shimmy | |
| Alpine Beer Company | Wilder |
| Chez Monmee | |
| Ichabod Ale 2009 | Great Lakes Brewing Company |
| Ned | |
| The Dalai Lambic Wild Ale | |
| Arbor Brewing Company | |
| Half Acre Beer Company | |
| Brasserie Greff Kriek | |
| Demetrius | Barrel Aged Rainbow Rye |
| Flamboyant Wild Red Ale | Pear Goss |
| Penumbra | |
| Sodibo Barrel Aged Blond Ale (Sour Series) | Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant |
| Special Reserve 2005 | |
| Velvet Hammer | Cassis de Hill |
| Framboozled (Sour Series) | Berliner Weiss |
| Du Armand | |
| Avery | Flemish Red (Fred) |
| Framboise De Hill | |
| Avery De Vogelbekdieren (The Platypus) | Funkin |
| Dihos Dactylion | Kriek De Hill |
| Dries Ellies | Lambic De Hill - Unblended |
| 15 | Mondo |
| Brabant | Oud Bruin |
| Dépuceleuse | |
| Quinquepartite | Ithaca Beer Company |
| Sui Generis | |
| Eremita | Brute |
| Immitis | LeBleu |
| Meretrix | Frute #1 |
| Opus Altar Boy | Frute #2 |
| Geektoberfest | |
| Ballast Point Brewing Company | |
| Jackie O's Pub & Brewery | |
| BC Hout | |
| Beachwood Blend (Hout Series) | Berliner Weiss |
| Gueuze (Hout Series) | Brown Recluse |
| Cab Cherry Man | |
| Bear Republic Brewing Co. | Chunga's Old Bruin |
| Cuvee De Jackie | |
| Cuvee De Bubba | Dynamo Hum |
| Old Scoutter's Call of the Wild | Funky South Paw |
| Prickly Pear Grizz | Proto Blonde |
| Sotoyome Amber | Pygmy Twilight |
| Sour Crazy Ivan | Quincedence |
| The Grand Wazoo | |
| Bell's Brewery | Vulcan Faunus |
| When Life Gives You Lemons | |
| Wild One | |
| Oarsman | Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales |
| Boulevard Brewing Co. | Bam Bière |
| Bam Noire | |
| Saison-Brett | Bam With Jasmine |
| Bamagranite | |
| Bootlegger's Brewery | Bambic |
| Baudelaire Ale Absurd | |
| 76 Barrel Aged Sour With Cherries | Baudelaire IO |
| Blackberry Mother Pucker | Belipago |
| Bluebonic Funk | Biere De Goord |
| Fresh Lambic | Bière De Mars |
| Kentucky Wild | Bière De Mars - Grand Reserve |
| Knott Sour Lambic | Calabaza Blanca |
| Lambic #1 | Calabaza Blanca With Hibiscus Flowers |
| Lambic #1 with Kombucha Cultures | Collababeire Special holiday Ale |
| Lambic #2 | E.S.Bam |
| Lambic #3 | Fuego Del Otono, Autumn Fire |
| Lambic #4 | La Parcela |
| Lambic #5 | La Roja |
| My Cherry Amour | La Roja - Grand Reserve |
| Olallieberry Lambic | Lambicus Dexterius |
| Olallieberry/ Acia Lambic | Luciérnaga, The Firefly |
| Pink Funkasaurus | Luciérnaga, The Firefly - Grand Reserve |
| Madrugada Obscura, Dark Dawn Stout | |
| Brewery Ommegang | Maracaibo Especial |
| Noel De Calabaza | |
| Biere de Mars | Oro De Calabaza |
| Ommegeddon | Perseguidor |
| Rouge | Project Greenleaf Heavy Nettle |
| Zuur | Project Greenleaf Hummocky Lick Sumac Sensation |
| Raspimical | |
| Brooklyn Brewery | Roja De Kriek |
| Weizen Bam | |
| Wild 1 | Weizen Bam With Hibiscus Flowers |
| Brett Ops | |
| Leelanau | |
| The Bruery | |
| Golden Ale | |
| Cuvee Jeune | Whaleback White |
| Hottenroth Berliner Weiss | Ptoskey Pale Ale |
| White Zin | |
| 100% Brett Autumn Maple | Lift Bridge |
| BeRazzled | |
| Blue Palms 3rd Anniversary Sour | Raspberry Lambic |
| Bottleworks XII | |
| Carmen With Cranberries | Lost Abbey, The / Port Brewing Co. |
| Carmen With Raisins | |
| Collaboration Series: ISO:FT | 10 Commandments |
| Collaboration Series: Marron Acidifie | Amazing Grace Ale |
| Gueze Style Ale with Blueberries | Anti Ox |
| Kriek | Cable Car |
| Oude Tart | Carnevale |
| Oode Tart with Sour Cherries | Cuvee de Tomme |
| Sour in the Rye | Double Cherry Red Poppy |
| The Wanderer | Double Cuvee De Tomme |
| Vitis Series: Pinotlambicus | Double Raspberry Framboise De Amorosa |
| Duck Duck Gooze | |
| Bullfrog Brewery | Duck Duck Guava |
| Framboise de Amorosa | |
| Beekeeper | Isabelle Proximus |
| El Rojo Diablo | Le Woody Brune |
| Frambozen | Red Poppy Ale |
| Liquid Sunshine Reserva | Just Another Barrel #2 |
| Magic beans | Saints Red Barn |
| BeeSting Gone Wild | Russ |
| Busted Lawn Mower Kegs Gone Wild | Sinners Blend 2010 |
| Citra-Delic Wheat Gone Wild | Soured Avant Garde |
| El Diable Deluxe | Veritas 008 |
| Hop Harvest 2009 Gone Wild | Veritas 009 |
| Inspiration Wild | |
| SamO Blend #667 (aka The Neighbor of The Beast | McKenzie Brew House |
| The Jaspers | |
| Tim and Kathy's Strawberry Fields | Black Et Bronzage |
| Water of Life Kegs Gone Wild Version | Irma Extra |
| Wits End Gone Wild | Tristessa |
| Cambridge Brewing Company | Midnight Sun Brewing |
| Benevolence | Pride |
| Berliner Kendall | Open Container |
| Cerise Cassee American Sour Ale | Whatever |
| Consternation | |
| Creaky Bus | New Belgium Brewing Inc. |
| Double Happiness | |
| Honey Badger Lambic | La Folie Wood Aged Beer |
| Kriek Du Cambridge 2009 | Le Terroir |
| Nom De PlumPisser Mauvais | Transatlantique Krie |
| Reckoning | Black Folie |
| Resolution #9 | Felix |
| Rose De Cambrinus | Eric's Ale |
| Erics Ale Bourbon barrel Aged | |
| Captain Lawrence Brewing Co | Fall Wild Ale |
| Imperial Berliner Style Weisse | |
| Barrel Select Batch 1 | Vrienden |
| Cuvee de Castleton | Love (Apple Whiskey Barrel Aged) |
| Flaming Fury | Love (Blackberry Whiskey Barrel Aged) |
| Little Linda’s Liquid | Love (Foeder #3) |
| Rosso e Marone | Love (Peach Whiskey barrel Aged) |
| Funky Sour Cherry #2 | Oscar |
| Gueze | Shadow of the Foudre |
| Saturday's Sour Blend 2011 | Tart Lychee |
| Xtreme Blend 2011 | Trip III |
| Trip VII | |
| Cascade Brewing @ Raccoon Lodge | Twisted Spoke 15th Anniversary |
| Apricot Ale | New Glarus Brewing Co. |
| Blackberry Ale | |
| Cuvee du Jongleur | R & D Golden Ale |
| Kriek Ale | Raspberry Tart |
| Nightfall Blackberry | Unplugged - Berliner Weiss |
| Sang Royal | Unplugged - Imperial Saison |
| The Vine | Unplugged - Old English Porter |
| Vlad the Imp Aler | R & D Bourbon Barrel Kreik |
| 2011 Kriek Blend With Bourbon | R & D Gueze |
| 80 Shilling Sour Scottish Ale | Unplugged Cranbic Ale |
| Apple Pie | |
| Bahri Date Bain | New Holland Brewing Co. |
| Barrel 323 | |
| Bourbon Belgium Quad | Blue Sunday |
| Beck Berry | Moxie Sour Ale |
| Blauw Van Der Jon Berry | |
| Bourbonic Plague | Odell Brewing Company |
| Cherry Gold Yeller | |
| Funk II | Saboteur |
| Gold Yeller | Flagship in Oak |
| Noyeaux | Friek |
| Sang Noir | Hiveranno |
| Sang Rouge | DeConstruction Golden Ale |
| Sang Royal | Shenanigans |
| Spring Gose | Sour Olde Ale |
| Straight Bourbonic | The Revolution |
| Summer Gose | Weiss Versa |
| Winter Gose | |
| Bourbon Double Red W/Bourbicide | Pizza Port / Port Brewing Company |
| Figaro | |
| Flanders Red | Le Woody Brune |
| Honey Ginger Lime | Mo' Betta Bretta |
| Honey Ginger Rye | Pizza Port Synergy |
| Lipsmacker Gose | Synergy |
| Port Reserve | |
| Pre-Bourbonic | Russian River Brewing Company |
| Sweetartz | |
| Vintage Red | Beatification |
| Compunction | |
| Cigar City | Consecration |
| Grandma's Funky Sour Berry | Deification |
| Guava Grove -Wild | Depuration |
| Jolly Guava | Deviation - Bottleworks 9th Anniversary |
| Vuja De | Framboise For A Cure |
| Vuja De - Red Wine Barrel Aged | Sanctification |
| Sour Pumkin | |
| Cisco Brewers Inc. | Supplication |
| Symposium Sour Brown Ale | |
| Cherry Wood | Temptation |
| Dark Woods | Toronado 20th Anniversary Ale |
| Feral Barrel | |
| Full and By Rye | Saint Somewhere |
| Lady of the Woods | |
| Monomoy Kriek | Lectio Divina |
| Pechish Woods | Lectio Du Chene |
| White Woods | Pays Du Fleurs |
| Winter Woods | Pays Du Soleil |
| Craftsman Brewing Co | Santa Fe Brewing Company |
| El Prieto Sour black Ale | Wild Ale #1 |
| Extreme Braggot | Wild Ale #2 |
| Flanders Red | Wild Ale #3 |
| Honesty Ale | Wild Ale #4 |
| Sour Grapes | Wild Ale #5 |
| Summers End Sour | Wild Ale #6 Bordeaux Barrel Series |
| Wild Ale #7 (Surf Mountain Sour) | |
| Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project | |
| Sixpoint | |
| Good Glory | |
| Pure Guava Petite Sour | Sour Diesel |
| Wild Wild Brett "Rouge" | |
| Ska Brewing Co. | |
| Dark Horse Brewing Company | |
| Ska Sour | |
| Lambeak Wants Peachy | |
| Richard in Mouth W/ Kumquat | Stillwater Artisanal Ales |
| Whiskey Richard Lambeak | |
| Lambeak Wants Raspberry | Red 33 |
| Chardonnay Barrel-Ages Stateside Saison | |
| Deschutes | |
| Surly | |
| The Dissident | |
| Green Monster | Pentagram |
| Solace Rose | Five |
| Sour Cherry Porter | |
| Telegraph Brewing Company | |
| Dogfish Head Craft Brewery | Gypsy Ale |
| Obscura Amber | |
| Festina Pêche | Obscura Arborea |
| Fungus Tea'Mungus | Obscura Volpine |
| Midas Touchstone | Petit Obscura |
| Goser The Gosarian | Reserve Wheat Ale |
| Drake's Brewing Co. | Trinity Brewing |
| Brett Butler | Old Growth |
| Brett Soul Glow Sour Ale | TPS Report |
| Brettamber | Buddha Nova |
| Imperial Stout with Brett | The Flavor |
| Bi-Pod | |
| Chardi's Trippel | Tröegs Brewing Company |
| Dark Diggler | |
| FrankenBerry | Splinter Blue |
| It's Fity | Splinter Gold |
| Simian Sour | Splinter Red |
| Tropic Thunder | |
| Dark Duck | Two Brothers Brewing Co. |
| Volte-Face | |
| Wyld Stallyns | 10 |
| Askew | |
| Dry Dock Brewing Co. | Moaten |
| Public Domaine + 10 | |
| Apricot Lambic | |
| Upland Brewing Company | |
| Flat Earth Brewing | |
| Blackberry Lambic | |
| Extra Medium | Blueberry Lambic |
| Rode Haring | Cherry Lambic |
| Kiwi Lambic | |
| Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery | Strawberry Lambic |
| Dantalion Dark Wild Ale | |
| Candor | Peach Lambic |
| Cranky Nate | Persimmon Lambic |
| Decadence | Raspberry Lambic |
| Kyra Festiv-Ale Sour Blend | |
| Roselare Saison | Valley Brewing Company |
| Rosie Pom | |
| Calambic | |
| Freetail Brewing Company | Chelie Wonka |
| Decadence Grand Cru 2009 | |
| Ananke | Dysfunktion Ale Part Deux |
| Ate | Fat Freddy's Freaky Kriek |
| Bandito | Olallieberry Sour |
| Bareliner Weisse | Stockton Sour (Phil's Mild Wild) |
| Figgy Wood'n | |
| Fortuna Roja | White Birch Brewing |
| Self ReGarde | |
| Solera (All Batch Numbers) | Commemoration Ale |
| Solera Fin | Barrel Aged Brewers Reserve American Wild Ale |
| Woodicus | Elysium |
| Indomitus | |
| Funkwerks | Morning Breaks |
| Night Falls | |
| Wild Apricot | Rye Four |
| Chardonnay Barrel Blonde | Berliner Weiss |
| Bastille | Haystack Havoc |
| Belgian Resistance | Night Falls |
| Casper | Wild AKA |
| Cherry Saison | Wild Ale |
| Cochon | |
| FC Collusion 2011 | Weyerbacher |
| French Resistance | |
| Hibiscus Resistance | Riserva |
| Key Lime Rye | Rapture |
| Maoir King | |
| Saison | Victory |
| White | |
| Wild Devil | |
| Grand Teton Brewing Co. | Helios |
| Who's Brett?? ***This list isn't complete and most of these beers you will never ever be able to get but it gives you an idea of what breweries are gettin their funk on! If I'm missing a brewery that you love that makes Funky shit please let me know and I'll add it to the list. Eventually I'll have links and all sorts of good stuff on this page. ***Gotta give credit to Where The Wild Beers Are for starting me down this quest. To create this post and compile this list, I originally looked at their list, and then realized I wanted to update and expand the US section which is what I have here. Three years ago I attended this event in Minneapolis and it's created an acid beer obsession for me. It's a great event that is held in October in Minneapolis. If you get cold hanging outside at this event, just wrap yourself in a horses blanket and try not to shiver like a wet dog. Cheers! |
