Pic(k) of the Week: Two sours & a stout.

A posed photo, yes, but these three beers had been drunk and enjoyed at the Inman Park Festival, in Atlanta, Georgia, on 30 April 2016.

The beers, left to right, were:

• Evil Twin Brewing: Sour Bikini
  • contract brewery: Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Sour Pale Ale; 3% alcohol-by-volume (abv)
  • Brewed and packaged by Westbrook Brewing, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
• Anderson Valley Brewing: Bood Orange Gose
  • Brewry founded in 1987 in Boonville, California.
  • Gose; 4.2% abv.
  • Gose (pronounced: GO zuh) is a light sour ale, brewed with wheat (and barley), salt, and coriander, and fermented with lactobacillus bacteria (and yeast).
• Stillwater Artisinal Brewing: On Fleek
  • contract brewery: Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Imperial Stout; 13% abv.
  • Grist includes dark sugars and molasses.
  • Brewed and packaged at Two Roads Brewing in Stratford, Connecticut, in 'collaboration' with Casita Cerveceria of Greensboro Bend, Vermont.

And this, left to right, is how I perceived them:

• Puckering;
• Refreshingly sour;
• Roasty, big, and funky.

Not all at our table enjoyed the beers equally well. Contrarians offered opinions that were, shall we say ['language' alert], salty. Not I. De gustibus non disputandum.

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• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of personal photos, usually posted on Saturdays, and often, but not always, with a good fermentable as the subject.
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