You know you’re at a special beer festival when the left-over kegs at the end of the event were beers from Russian River Brewing Co. Over 49 different sour beers were poured at the Stone Sour Fest at the Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens in Escondido, CA last weekend.

What’s a Sour Beer?

The sour is a style that originated from Belgian with a taste of fruitiness, acid and tart with no hop aroma. According to the BJCP guidelines sour beers are divided into these styles: Berliner Weisse, Flanders Red Ale, Flanders Brown Ale/Oud Bruin, Lambic, Gueuze, and Fruit Lambic. Some of the sours we tried like Pasadena’s Craftsman Sour Lavender 2011 smelled like potpourri. The beer pour from Belgian’s Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek was beautifully pink in color. We found Cantillon Iris, Eagle Rock Yearling, The Bruery Oude Tart and Lost Abbey Red Poppy Ale to be some crowd favorites.

List of beers poured at Stone Sour Fest 2011:

Draft
Allagash Confluence Ale
Avery Dihos Dactylion
Bacchus
Ballast Point Sour Wench Blackberry Ale
Bear Republic Barrel Aged Nectarine Grizz
Bear Republic Prickly Pear Grizz
BJ’s Oude Jeremiah
Bockor Bellegem’s Bruin
Bockor Cuvee des Jacobins Rouge
Boon Kriek
Breakwater Witch Kriek
The Bruery / Beer City Store The Wanderer
The Bruery / Cigar City Brewing Marrón Acidifié
The Bruery Hottenroth Berliner Weisse
The Bruery Oude Tart
Cantillon Iris
Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek
Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus
Cascade Apricot
Cascade Kriek Ale
Cascade Nightfall Blackberry
Cascade Port Reserve
Cascade Sang Royal
Cascade The Vine
Craftsman Extreme Braggot
Craftsman Sour Grapes
Craftsman Sour Lavender
Eagle Rock Equinox
Eagle Rock Yearling
Grand Teton Sourgrass
Green Flash Grand Mantis 2009
Green Flash Little Freak
Green Flash Super Freak
John Martin Bourgogne des Flandres
Jolly Pumpkin / Nøgne Ø / Stone Collababeire
Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza
Ladyface Syrah Barrel La Trappistine
Liefmans Cuvée-Brut
The Lost Abbey Framboise de Amorosa
The Lost Abbey Red Poppy Ale
The Lost Abbey Sinners Ale 2010
Moylan’s Old Blarney Barleywine Ale aged in Girard Chardonnay Barrels
New Belgium La Folie
New Belgium Lips of Faith Imperial Berliner Style Weisse
New Belgium Lips of Faith Transatlantique Kriek
New Belgium Lips of Faith Vrienden
Rodenbach 2008 Vintage Oak Aged Ale
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Sanctification
Russian River Supplication
Russian River Temptation
Verhaeghe Duchesse de Bourgogne
Verhaeghe Echte Kriekenbier

Bottles
3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze
3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek
3 Fonteinen Schaerbeekse Kriek
Allagash Confluence Ale
Avery Brabant
Avery Dépuceleuse
Avery Dihos Dactylion Barrel-Aged Sour Ale
Avery Quinquepartite
The Bruery Hottenroth Berliner Weisse
The Bruery Sour Stout
Cantillon Classic Gueuze
Cantillon Cuvée des Champions
Cascade Kriek Ale
Cascade The Vine
De Proef / Allagash Les Deux Brasseurs
De Proef / Bell’s Van Twee
De Proef Zoetzuur Special Reserve Flemish Ale
De Ranke Cuvée De Ranke
Deschutes The Dissident
Girardin Gueuze 1882 Black Label
HaandBryggeriet Haandbakk
Hanssens Lambic Experimental Cassis
Hanssens Lambic Experimental Raspberry
Hanssens Oudbeitje
Hanssens Oude Kriek
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
Jolly Pumpkin Luciernaga
Liefmans Goudenband
Liefmans Kriekbier
Lindemans Faro
Lindemans Gueuze Grand Cru Cuvée René
The Lost Abbey Cuvée de Tomme
The Lost Abbey Red Poppy Ale
New Belgium Le Terroir
Ommegang Zuur
Oud Beersel Oude Geuze
Oud Beersel Oude Kriek
Panil Barriquée
Panil Barriquée Riserva
Petrus Aged Pale
Reinaert Flemish Wild Ale
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Supplication
Russian River Temptation
Telegraph Obscura Arborea
Trois Dames Grand Dame Oud Bruin

Additional Information
http://www.stoneworldbistro.com/
http://www.stoneworldbistro.com/sourfest/