Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: the beer blog :: Sour style
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Jeriatric |
How about those pull-top crowlers? About one in 4 or 5 breweries have them out here. The rest have just started calling their 32 oz bottles (previously known as growlers) "crowlers." I just now decided to see what The Internet says regarding the definition of a crowler. Online, they say it's an aluminum can. Crowler |
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Jeriatric |
Any way, the breweries up here have delved into styles ignored where I used to live. Namely, Belgians and sours. I have been sampling the Dubbels and Tripels at the breweries and lately I brought home an aluminum, pull-top crowler of sour. Sour style beer is an acquired taste. After my first experience (a Petrus), I swore I never even look at the stuff again. A swig from a sampler tray of a sour brown (Supplication, at Russian River Brewery), a couple of years later, made me think that I could probably learn to like the stuff, at least some of it. Sure-nuff, within a year I had developed a taste for some sour beers. I now have two different sours in the fridge as I had bought a bomber of another one in a large, local market. I have no idea what the stuff in the bomber will taste like. I'm exploring. Any of you upper mid-westerners have much experience with the sour style? While I'm at it, has the pull-top crowler reached the hinterlands? |