Sour beers may seem like the UFO of the craft beer world, but they’re actually one of the oldest beer styles in the world!
Lambic beers, gueuze, Flanders red ales, or German gose beers to name a few, have been brewed at least since the 1200s. With the help of wild yeasts or bacteria these beers end up with a sour, tart, or acidic taste. Gose beers are even brewed with salt and coriander!
Modern brewers are now experimenting with sour beers, often flavouring them with fruits for an almost smoothie-like beer that makes you pucker up and leaves you wanting more...
Discover our lambics, gueuze, Flanders red, gose, Berliner Weisse, pastry sours, and more!
£2.75
Originally brewed as a collaboration with Kissmeyer Beer, this is Magic Rocks take on a traditional German style Gose, flavoured with fruit, sea buckthorn and sea salt.
Tart, lightly sour, fruity and refreshing with a defined saltiness makes this beer an excellent accompaniment to food.
£2.75
High Wire Grapefruit is a fruit-infused version of the best-selling West Coast pale ale.
Magic Rock accentuated the original beer’s smoothly composed malt body and lip-smacking citrus character with the addition of 100% natural pink grapefruit flavour.
Juicy, tart and deliciously refreshing, it’s High Wire the Same But Different!
£2.75
Passion fruit, orange, guava, and yes more orange!
Fruit and beer are a constant in Wild Beers brewing repertoire. This beer combines a boldly hopped pale ale, brimming with tropical fruit character from southern hemisphere hops. These flavours and aromas are then augmented by adding 3 of Brett’s favourite fruits: Passion-fruit, Orange and Guava.
Refreshingly light bodied and perfect for enjoying in the sunshine that is just around the corner.
£3.00
The flagship beer Lucky Jack gets a kick in the ass with more fruit, they simply added Grapefruit peels and Pink Grapefruit juice for the summer beer edition!
Slightly more pink, slightly more acidic, a lot more fruity and fresh! Unfiltered and limited for the summer!
Food pairings - Sushi, pulled pork sandwich, Norwegian brown cheese and spicy mango salad.
£3.50
In contrast to all the others, the Orval Trappist brewery makes only one beer for the general public. It has an intensely aromatic and dry character. Between the first and second fermentations there is also an additional dry-hopping process.
Through this the beer acquires its pronounced hoppy aroma and extra dry taste.
Country : Belgium
ABV : 6.2%
£4.50
A slightly sweet cherry lambic beer made in the traditional Belgian style by the Lindemans family. Lambic beers are fermented using wild yeasts in the air and aged in oak barrels for years to give a sour tart flavour. For this beer, cherries are then added to give the beer a pleasant and full fruity sweetness that offsets the sour base before a pleasing and refreshing tart finish.
Country : Belgium
ABV : 3.5%
£4.50
Leffe - Radieuse
Leffe Radieuse is an amber-coloured beer, rich in flavour and deliciously refined.
Its complex taste is particularly enjoyed by true beer connoisseurs.
Strong beer fans will enjoy this one from the Leffe brand.
£3.25
Pale amber. Not a fruit beer, a beer with fruit. The malt base creates a sweetness to compliment the mango infusion. A lot of late hopping with Chinook and Cascade gives a juxtaposing bitterness that balances this beer to perfection. Dry hopped with Citra.
Maris Otter low colour and cara malt. English Ale Yeast. Chinook, Cascade, Citra hops. Mangoes.
ABV 4%
£3.75
The Rodenbach Grand Cru is the archetypal Flanders red-brown beer. Each of these beers is a unique blend, but they all share a brewing process characteristic of the area surrounding Roeselare and Kortrijk.
The typical sweet and sour taste of a Rodenbach Grand Cru is produced by a two stage fermentation process called mixed fermentation, involving top-fermentation and bacterial fermentation using lactic acid bacteria. The Rodenbach Grand Cru matures in oak foeders, or barrels, over a period of two years, giving the beer a unique, complex fruitiness that is reminiscent of wine.
Rodenbach, the mother beer, is usually one-quarter mature beer to three-quarters young beer. When it comes to Rodenbach Grand Cru, the blend is two-thirds mature beer with one-third of a young brew added.
The 'roodbruin', or red-brown beers, of Flanders can be traced back to the Middle Ages. At that time, hops, the modern preservative ingredient in beer, had yet to reach Belgium but brewers knew that beers containing lactic and ascetic acids kept for longer. This gave rise to the tradition of sour beers, made by cutting a young and newly fermented beer with an older beer that has finished fermenting. The bitterness of hops is barely discernible in this style of beer.
Country : Belgium
ABV : 6%
£5.00
£5.00
Lindeman’s Cuvée René is - without a doubt - the queen of gueuzes.
A blend of old and young lambics matures in large oak barrels and then undergoes a secondary fermentation in champagne bottles to achieve a dry finish with an effervescent carbonation.
Aromas and flavours of “dusty barnyard” and “earthy funk” can sound somewhat off-putting, but the notes of sour apple, lemon, and wood in this gueuze complement them nicely. Its lasting sour finish and medium body make this beer more adventurous than one might think.
Country : Belgium
ABV : 5%
£3.25
Newport, South Wales
4%
£6.00
£5.25
Pompelmocello is a tart, sour and puckering grapefruit IPA we’re brewing with Grapefruit Juice, Grapefruit Zest, the most grapefruity hop profile we can muster and lactose for a slightly creamy mouthfeel and sweet edge. The first batch of this beer will be going out on keg in the next week, the second batch will be bottled later this month. Fans of Limoncello IPA
UK
6% ABV
£3.75
Newport, South Wales
4.8%
£3.75
Newport, South Wales
4.8%
£3.75
Newport, South Wales
4.8%
£3.75
One of Lindeman’s most famous brews, Faro is a sweet, sharp, woody Gueuze with a wild, musty character that offers mouthwatering back-of-the-tongue refreshment.
Pouring a peachy gold beneath an attractive head, Faro is full of classic wild yeast and woodrot tones and a fruity, oaky tone that lifts the tasting experience to a delicately sweet and sour finish.
Country : Belgium
ABV : 4.5%
£6.25
A full bodied Sour Ale from UnBarred Brewery with sour gooseberries.
Gooseberries are naturally very sour, they built up the base of the beer similar to a Berliner Weiss and added maltodextrin to balance the sourness with sweetness and give a fuller body to stand up to the ABV.
Nelson Sauvin gives a beautiful grape and gooseberry character.
Brighton, UK
7.2%
£8.00
Kriek Mariage Parfait is an Old Style Kriek of exceptional excellence.
400g of wild cherries per litre are fermented together with a strong Lambic of spontaneous fermentation and aged on 6,200 litre oak foudres (large wooden casks) for 5 to 6 months.
Kriek Mariage Parfait is naturally clarified and referments in the bottle. It is unsweetened, unfiltered, unpasteurised and has no artificial flavours, preservatives or colourings added.
Brewed in Lembeek, the village that gave Lambic its name. Pour slowly in a flute glass without disturbing the yeast sediment in the bottle and enjoy this epitome of traditional Lambic brewing.
Country : Belgium
ABV : 8%
£5.75
Extra Pale Ale malt and Wheat provide the base, with Acidulated Malt and Lactose.
With Citra hops for bittering, Goza is Kettle soured with Lactobacillus brevis.
Fermented with Mondo's house English Ale yeast strain and brewed with sea salt and coriander seeds.
Conditioned on prickly pear cactus and guava.
Battersea, London, UK
4.7%
£8.00
This TRIPLE FRUITED PASTRY SOUR, based on a peach melba (named after Australian opera-singer Nellie Melba), features the most fruit Yonder have packed in to a beer, EVER.
Peach, Apricot and Raspberry combined and dosed at approximately 360 grams per litre and finished with a touch of vanilla.
It's thick, tart, fruity and decadent. Nellie would be proud!
Radstock, Somerset.
7%
£6.00
Welcome in... BLUE JAM!
Packed with more blueberries than you can fit into a 4 foot car, Blue Jam is tart, juicy and vibrantly purple (yes, sorry not blue).
Much like the Gose-style beers Yonder are known for, this is full bodied and smooth, with a lick of Cornish Sea Salt, and this time, a touch of lemon-like flavour from coriander seed (just a touch).
Radstock, Somerset.
4.2%
£6.25
Coauthored with IMBC, this sour ale by Cheshires Chapter Brewing is packed with Apricot and Raspberry puree, a spritzy effervescence and a lingering tartness.
Cheshire, UK
5.5%
£6.00
Mixed fermentation is at the heart of what Yonder do. The flavour possibilities are vast, unexplored and untameable.
This 4.5% ABV pale ale is brewed with a medley of cultures and 100% UK ingredients.
Expect high-end fruit flavours from UK grown Jester and Olicana hops, on top of the dry and funky finish of Brett fermentation.
Somerset, UK
4.5%
£5.75
Extra Pale Ale malt and Wheat provide the base to the fruity Gose by Mondo, with Acidulated Malt and Lactose.
With Citra hops for bittering, and Kettle soured with Lactobacillus brevis.
Fermented with Mondo Brewing's house English Ale yeast strain.
Brewed with sea salt and coriander seeds.
Conditioned on blueberries and Morello cherries. Lots going on!
Battersea, London, UK
4.7%
£5.50
If 2019 was all about polishing the edges Polly's established in their first year, and 2020 was about cementing where they thought their pale and hoppy beers should be in terms of quality and technique, then 2021 - their fourth year as an active brewery - is where they are starting to branch out from their usual comfort zone a little more and brew more styles that help them grow and learn as a team.
Plant Sugar treads familiar territory, but amplifies it up to the max for their biggest sour beer to date.
The brew plans for this beer simply read "Rhubarb & Quince = LOADS", and boy did they take that one seriously.
These awesome fruits meld together for a wonderful jammy tartness, before mellowing back around with a kick of sea salt to keep things interesting.
Roll on 2021!
Flintshire, North Wales
7.0%
£5.75
This is a mix ferment Gose from Glasgow's Overtone Brewery, with additions of Mirabelle Plum from Lorraine, France and Lebanese Ginger.
This brings you a tart Gose that is brewed using Indian coriander and pink Himalayan Sea salt.
Contains: Gluten
Natural, Unfiltered, Unfined, Vegetarian Friendly
Glasgow, Scotland
5%
£12.00
£6.75
You all know Yonder love foraging.
They also love a good saison.
Combining the two in a FORAGED SAISON is like second nature to them.
Tart fruits work so well in a saison base. It really lifts that dry finish in to something very special indeed and Sea Buckthorn is the perfect fruit to do that.
Packed full of Vitamin C they have a real citrus kick, which works so well in beer.
Radstock, Somerset.
4.9%
£3.50
Duchesse de Bourgogne from Brouwerij Verhaeghe is the traditional Flemish red ale.
This refreshing ale is matured in oak casks; smooth with a rich texture and interplay of passion fruit, and chocolate, and a long, dry and acidic finish.
After the first and secondary fermentation, the beer goes for maturation into the oak barrels for 18 months.
The final product is a blend of younger 8 months old beer with 18 months old beer. The average age of the Duchesse de Bourgogne before being bottled is 12 months.
Belgium
6.2%
£3.50
Part of the 9th Birthday Range by Tiny Rebel.
This 4.2% cocktail will leave Cherry Cream soda on the nose and give you the taste of Cherry Cream Soda.
Newport, South Wales
4.2%
£3.00
A full flavoured pale ale by Fierce Beer, PACKED with juicy rhubarb!
Full on fruit, not too sweet!
Aberdeen
4.6%
£3.00
"I want candy!" - And boy does this offer it.
This one is a Non-Alc twist on Tiny Rebels classic sour ale!
Newport, S. Wales
0.5%
£6.00
The Crimson Rosella is a beautiful parrot native to Australia, with a distinctive and striking red and blue plumage.
It’s also the name that fits Double-Barrelled's new Redcurrant and Peach Gose, for it’s beautiful electric pink hue, balanced fruity and tartness and salty notes.
This recipe was inspired by an absolutely delicious redcurrant and peach tart they enjoyed!
What’s a gose?
A Gose (pronounced (Gos-e) is a traditional German wheat beer, originating from the town of Goslar in Germany. To reflect their water profile, it’s brewed with salt to help add the distinctive notes that make a gose unique.
It’s ever so slightly sour, and the balance of the saltiness and coriander makes for a really delicious easy drinker.
Reading, UK
5.7%
£6.75
Oude Gueuze is an appellation contrôlée: its label is protected.
Timmermans Oude Gueuze’s special flavour derives from its time-honoured method of preparation.
It is a blend of old lambic, which has been aged for three years in wooden barrels, and young lambic which ensures spontaneous fermentation in the bottle.
The different lambics are carefully selected by the brewer to obtain a perfect flavour.
After it has been produced, Timmermans Oude Gueuze, which is refermented for four months in the bottle, continues to improve for 20 years.
£3.50
Part of the 9th Birthday Range by Tiny Rebel.
Tiny Rebel teamed up with Joe Sugg to turn a much loved drink from their youth into this limited edition collab beer.
Tastes just like a Slush Puppy!
Newport, South Wales
4.5%
£4.25
Part of the 9th Birthday Range by Tiny Rebel.
This 7.2% cocktail will leave you with the Malibu scent and coconut richness with candied pineapples on the tongue.
Newport, South Wales
7.2%
£6.50
Part of the 9th Birthday Range by Tiny Rebel.
This 8.2% Buibblicious Double IPA gives you bubble gum and passionfruit on the nose and taste with passionfruit lingering afterwards.
Newport, South Wales
8.2%
£4.25
It’s Juice Springsteen but with THREE times the fruit!
Kilos upon kilos upon kilos of Mango, Pineapple, Passion Fruit and Guava are added to this Session IPA during fermentation…way more than your 5 a day!
Country : UK
ABV : 4.5%
£4.25
A collaboration with UCHU Brewing, brewed with Strawberry, Plum, Cherry, Sakura
Leeds, UK
4.5%
£4.00
Part of the 9th Birthday Range by Tiny Rebel.
This 6.2% cocktail will leave lemon, lime and juniper on the nose.
Drinking will give you Gin aromatics with a lemon and lime punch on the tongue.
Newport, South Wales
6.2%