Sour you in September
If it’s mid-September, that must mean sour beer time at The Lantern Tap House.
The South Perry pub’s fourth annual Sours ‘n September festival runs Friday from 4 to 10 p.m. and Saturday from 2 to 10, with a dozen or more different sours on tap in the outdoor beer garden each day and two more inside.
The lineup includes a pair of limited barrel-aged offerings from Spokane breweries. Iron Goat on Saturday debuts its Brett d’Or du Claret (7 percent alcohol by volume), a blend of golden ales fermented for two and four years in Barrister merlot and cabernet franc barrels with crushed wine grapes. After this, the rest will go into bottles.
And Young Buck on Friday brings its Cab Savvy sour saison (7), which spends two years in cabernet sauvignon barrels before being finished with apricot puree.
Among other locals, also look for Paradise Creek’s Huckleberry Pucker (4.6) on Friday, and Laughing Dog’s De Achste Hond peach sour (7.2), No-Li's guava/blueberry Unbreakable Imperial Sour (7.8) and Waddell’s Blackberry Sour (6) on Saturday.
The rest of the lineup includes:
FRIDAY
– Almanac’s spiced Pumpkin Pie de Brettaville (7)
– Anderson Valley’s lemon/juniper G&T Gose (4.2)
– Breakside Passionfruit (5)
– Deschutes Cultivateur oak-aged saison (8)
– Dogfish Head Festina Peche (4.5)
– Firestone Walker’s Bretta Weisse (4.9) and lambic-style Sour Opal (6.8)
– Founders Green Zebra watermelon gose (4.6)
– Grand Teton Flanders Brown (8.4)
– North Coast Tart Cherry Berliner Weisse (4.1)
– Silver Moon’s cherry/lavender Barrel-Aged Elf (5.6)
– Uinta Hopscursion Brett IPA (6.5)
SATURDAY
– Avery Ginger Sour (6)
– Boulevard’s dry-hopped Saison Brett (8.5)
– Crux’s Flanders-style Better Off Red (7)
– Fort George’s Sucker Punch kettle sour (4.1)
– Georgetown’s Boots, Berry & Murray raspberry gose (3.1)
– Grand Teton’s 2017 American Sour (8.5) and 2015 chardonnay barrel-aged version (8.2)
– New Belgium’s cherry-infused Transatlantique Kriek (8)
– Ommegang Pale Sour (6.9)
– pFriem Oude Kriek (5.6)
– Reuben’s dark rye Kentucky Common (5)
Tasting tokens will cost $1 each; you can get a 5-ounce pour for two to four tokens, depending on the beer, or a 10-ounce pour for four to eight.
Bottled sours also will be available inside including Avery's 2015 Fortuna, Firestone Walker's 2015 Agrestic, Fort George's Shady Grove, Mikkeller's Spontangreenapple, Reuben's Gose and VanderGhinste's Oude Bruin.
There will be music and games in the outdoor tent, and live music inside each night at 9 by Tyler Aker on Friday and Lavoy on Saturday.