Whenever I'm asked what my favorite beer styles are I can never narrow it down. Some styles I favor in the Winter months - winter warmers, stouts and porters, quads and bourbon barrel-aged ales of all descriptions; in the Spring I pick up some bocks and IPAs; in the Autumn I start looking for Oktoberfests and pumpkin ales; Summer is for Kölsches, Altbiers, shandies and sours.
There are various styles of sours, some mildly tangy while others are super sour. The traditional method of brewing sour beers involved months-long processes, including the use of "wild" yeast; kettle brewing is a speeded up method, ostensibly to meet the demand, presumably without the use of wild yeast. Sippin' Pretty is a kettle brewed sour with açaí, guava and elderberry added for extra flavor. It pours a grapefruit pink with a pale pink head. All of the advertised flavors are there. Two of them anyway - I really don't know what elderberry tastes like! The tartness level is around a 4 on a scale of 10. Not much else to say, other than they claim to include Himalayan sea salt (although I don't believe that the Himalayas are near he sea), but I really can't detect any saltiness. (Note - the Gose style of sours contains sea salt). All in all, a refreshing brew, but there are better sours out there,
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