Surly Brewing Co. takes fruity sour beer to the extreme with its 9% alcohol Velvet Jam. The Minneapolis brewery jam-packs this one with ripe cherry and raspberry flavor and aroma.

The Royal Raspberry offers enough “sourness” to appease those who prefer something more tart, while still being approachable by someone new to the realm of sour beers. Burly Oak Sorry Chicky ...

D.C. Beer Week doesn’t start till August 19, but that means you’ve only got about 10 weeks to complete your drinking prep. While lagers, porters and IPAs can be easily found, if you ...

And then dunks the ball in the faces of all the other sour beers in California. The 7.5% ABV beer is probably the least sweet brew on this list and one of the most unapologetically sour.

Funkwerks Raspberry Provincial Finally, a raspberry beer that doesn’t taste like dissolved Jolly Ranchers. The clean raspberry juice leads the flavor, but there’s a mild, spicy Belgian ale below.

The Beer: One of the most popular fruited beers on the market, this 5.7% ale is loaded with fresh raspberries. The result is a pink-hued, slightly sour, homage to the zesty berry. Tasting Notes ...

And so sour beer, which gets its holiday on Sept. 8 and/or Sept. 20 (depending on your preferred marketing campaign) may actually deserve two days’ recognition, simply for its history and ...

Beard Science Sour House in The Colony offers only sour beers. (K D) For the uninitiated, a maiden trip to Beard Science is likely similar to the first time someone visits Bishop Cider Company in ...

On a recent visit to Roanoke’s Sumdat Farm Market, in-house beer guru Spencer Dennis asked me if I had ever written about sour beers. “They are really popular right now,” ...