Pucker Up Bar « Beervana

A new Beervana initiative this year is “The Think Tank” – a 20 tap, specialty bar, dedicated to showcase a new style, trend or curiosity that has caught our eye in the last year. In 2016 there is no argument that the hottest style on everyone’s puckered lips is SOURS. This incredibly diverse and polarising style is intriguing brewers and drinkers alike. Try, taste and compare a huge range of sour beers on the Pucker Up Bar, with educational notes in the Beervana programme to allow you to delve deeper into the wonderful world of sours.

BREWERY NAME	NAME	TYPE	ABV	Programme Guide Tasting Notes
Baylands Brewery	Woodrows Revenge	Sour IPA	6.0%	A blend of two different beers. A munter IPA and a kettle soured Berliner Weisse.
Black Dog Brew	Double Barrel	Barrel Aged Sour	7.7%	This “Double Soured and Double Yeasted” beast was produced by creating a kettle soured amber ale and then fermenting and barrel-ageing it with Brettanomyces.
Craftwork	Autobarn	Grisette	9.0%	More funk than sour, this ale shows off all the barnyard character of a rustic Belgian saison, done in an American way. Complex and interesting, dry yet sweet, with a hint of winey-vanilla overtones from the wood.
Funk Estate	Dr Funk	Sour	4.9%	This kettle soured ale uses Motueka hops, yuzu and dried persian black lime for a citrus burst. The trippy lovechild of Funk Estate and Doctors’ Orders Brewing. Frankenstein, no. Groovy yuzu, blacklime tart and addictive nectar – yes. Enjoy.
Hallertau Brewery	Porter Noir	Barrel Aged Brett Beer	6.6%	Brewing draws on winemaking traditions for this finely composed arrangement of soft tannins, forest fruits and chocolate, all completed with an elegantly long, dry finish.
Kereru Brewing	Karengose Salty Seaweed Ale	Gose	4.0%	Karengo is an edible purple seaweed from Kaikoura. A Gose is a cloudy German Wheat beer brewed with salted water. Karengose fuses German style and NZ karengo into something rich and strange, tart and briny with a lucious sour finish.
McLeod’s Brewery	Black Watch	Sour Imperial Black Scotch Ale	11%	Black Watch is big, rich and caramel-laden with notes of liquorice and ‘bacon smoke’ up front. Brewed with a traditional sour mash then aged in American oak barrels, expect a rich, smooth palate with a hint of sour to a dry, balanced end.
North End Brewery	Oud Bruin	Oud Bruin	7.0%	A Flanders Sour Brown Ale brewed with yoghurt culture, dried cherries, and prunes.
Peckham Cider	Major Sour	Sour Cider	6.6%	Wild fermented blend of bittersweet cider apples, dominated by Major. Aged in oak barrel for 16 months. Still and unfiltered
Sunshine Brewery	Sunshine Grande Cru	Flanders Red	6.0%	They say good things take time, well our Burgundy of the East was definitely worth the wait. Barrel fermented and aged, expect flavours of oak, dark fruit and a puckering finish.
Tiamana	Meister	Berliner Weisse	3.4%	Original German woodruff gives this beer a unique herbal flavour, somewhere between aniseed, basil and lemon. This beer is green!
Wild and Wolly Brewing	Basilisk	Fruit Berliner-Weisse	2.5%	A Berliner Weisse dry “hopped” with lemon zest, kaffir lime leaf, and mint. A lower ABV beer that’s still packed with aroma, flavour and mouthfeel.
Basecamp Brewery	B is for Boysenberry	Oud Bruin	6.5%	A generous addition of boysenberry purée meets lacto kettle souring and Brett in this delightful spin on an oud bruin.
Crux	Freak Cake	Oud Bruin	10.5%	The brunette hue is derived from roasted Belgian aromatic malts, and fruity esters are augmented by lemon and orange zest. For a further twist, Brettanomyces induced secondary fermentation flecked with sour cherries, raisins, cranberries, figs, dates, and currants for a mildly acidic ale.
Ecliptic	Zenith Grapefruit Gose	Gose	4.5%	Our interpretation of this style includes grapefruit, for a refreshing beer, perfect for springtime when the sun re-emerges above our celestial sphere.
Good George	Kiwi Sour	Fruit Berliner-Weisse	3.7%	Brewed in the classic Berliner Weisse style. We’ve thrown heaps of Green & Gold Kiwifruit at the beer during conditioning. This brings wonderful ripe kiwifruit notes and also a little sweetness that helps balance the acidity.
Fork Brewing	Sour Bet	Fruit Berliner-Weisse	3.8%	A sour wheat beer combined with buckets of pureed raspberries and a lemon zest infusion. Often served at Fork and Brewer with a dash of sweet peppermint syrup to balance the tartness.
Ecliptic	Ultra Violet	American Sour Ale	7.5%	Ultra Violet is brewed with Oregon blackberries, soured in the brew house and fermented with Belgian yeast. The result is a tart and crisp sour ale, with ripe blackberry flavours radiating throughout it like cosmic rays traversing the universe.
Crux	Better off Red	Flanders Red	8.10%	Crux’s interpretation of a traditional Belgian-style red ale. Malty sweetness is enhanced by a slight acidity. Hints of spice and fruit entice with each sip.