Session # 165 De Dolle | Oerbier Special Reserva Flanders Oud Bruin | Esen, Belgian | 13% ABV One year ago: Mikkeller 1000 IBU Belgium rarely releases anything as strong as some of America’s most extreme offerings. But when I read on the bottle of the De Dolle Oerbier Special Reserva that it was a [...]
Archive for the ‘Sour Ale’ Category
11 Feb
Panil Barriquée
Session # 142 | Panil | Barriquée (Sour Version) | 8% ABV Flanders Red Ale | Torrechiara, Italy | Rating: 84/100 One year ago: North Coast Old Rasputin XII Anniversary I don’t normally review Italian beers on The Hopry, and it’s not because I don’t want to review them. It’s because they are generally hard [...]
7 Feb
Cuvee de Castleton
Session # 140 | Captain Lawrence | Cuvee de Castleton | 8% ABV American Wild Ale | Pleasantville, New York | Rating: 95/100 One year ago: Deschutes Hop Henge “More sour beers!” That’s what I tend to hear more than anything when people e-mail me about beer requests for the show. So today I will [...]
2 Sep
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Session # 107 | Rodenbach | Grand Cru | 6% ABV Flanders Red Sour Ale | Roeselare, Belgium | Rating: 96/100 While not my favorite style of beer yet, the sour ale is slowly creeping up the food chain for me. The beer we’ll be looking at today, Rodenbach Grand Cru, is a very good [...]
30 Jun
Kuhnhenn Olde Brune
The Kuhnhenn Olde Brune is an 11.5% sour beer, huh? I’m not going to lie I was a bit skeptical. Typically the higher the ABV the sweeter a beer gets, and Kuhnhenn is known for brewing beers that are both high in ABV percentage and high in sweetness. So yeah, I wasn’t sure what to [...]
