Sour Beer Fest Tonight at Brouwer’s
Pay your respects to the Duchesse and 39 other tarties tonight in Fremont.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on May 20, 2010 at 10:48AM
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Can’t believe I forgot to mention this most momentous of beer week events: the sour beer fest. Lambics, gueuzes, krieks? Heck yes. Brouwer’s is serving up over 40 sours including Verhege Duchesse de Bourgogne, a rich, Belgian red ale that is aged for 18 months in oak. (Brouwer’s shows its reverence for the duchess by hanging her portrait on the wall at the mezzanine level.) There are three from Lost Abbey, some New Belgiums and Russian Rivers, a bunch of Cascades. It’s a sour-lover’s ultimate event. Stop by.
Tags: Fremont, Seattle Beer Week
I don’t see why (or how for that matter) people drink Sour Beer. I tried one the other a week ago and it ruined my dinner. The taste is still lingers in my mind. I see this going away pretty quickly. A trend among the beer snobs.
Hey Todd, you’re certainly welcome to your own palate, but I’m skeptical about calling sours “trendy.” They may be enjoying a moment of recognition in the States right now, but I think that’s because people are branching out to more sorts of beers generally, and brewers are exploring ways to stand out. (A good thing, right? How many more hoppy IPAs do we need around these parts, for instance?)
Sour beers have been around since the sixth century BC though, so I have to quibble with your assertion that they are going away soon.