🍺 Top 100 Craft Beers

🍋 Sours & Wild Ales

Lambics, gueuzes, krieks, and American wild ales — spontaneous fermentation at its most expressive.

Top 100 Craft Beers / Sour & Wild

#16two hearted ale

Cantillon Gueuze

Brasserie Cantillon — Belgium
Gueuze Lambic5.0% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

Brussels' most revered lambic — a blend of one, two, and three-year spontaneously fermented beers. Bone dry, complexly sour, with leather, lemon pith, and barnyard funk. The reference point for the entire sour beer world.

#17boon mariage parfait

Cantillon Kriek

Brasserie Cantillon — Belgium
Kriek Lambic5.0% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

Whole Schaerbeek cherries macerated in young lambic for months. The result is the world's greatest fruit beer — intensely dry and tart with a vivid cherry character that bears no resemblance to sweetened commercial versions.

#18allagash coolship

Oude Geuze

3 Fonteinen — Belgium
Oude Geuze6.0% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

Cantillon's fiercest rival in the lambic world. Armand Debelder's artisanal blends consistently achieve extraordinary complexity — fizzy, funky, lemony, and utterly unlike anything else on earth.

#19beer geek breakfast

Supplication

Russian River Brewing — USA
American Wild Ale7.0% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Brown ale aged 12 months in Pinot Noir barrels with whole sour cherries, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, and Pediococcus. A sublime tart cherry, vanilla, and barnyard masterpiece from America's sour beer pioneer.

#21sierra nevada torpedo

Grand Cru

Brouwerij Rodenbach — Belgium
Flanders Red Ale6.0% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

Two years in giant oak foedres produces Belgium's greatest sour red ale — cherry, raspberry, balsamic vinegar, and earthy oak in a complex sweet-sour balance. One of the world's most historic and distinctive beer styles.

#22stone ipa

Oude Geuze à l'Ancienne

Gueuzerie Tilquin — Belgium
Oude Geuze6.4% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

Belgium's youngest lambic blendery (est. 2009) producing some of its most celebrated gueuze. Pierre Tilquin sources from five Payottenland breweries, blending with surgical precision for a refined, citrusy complexity.

#26speedway stout

Oude Geuze Mariage Parfait

Brouwerij Boon — Belgium
Oude Geuze8.0% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

A "perfect marriage" of 100% three-year-old lambic — the richest and most complex of Boon's lineup. Intense lemon, oak, and green apple with a powerful natural carbonation. Ages magnificently for 10+ years.

#28sofie

Coolship Resurgam

Allagash Brewing — USA
American Wild Ale6.1% ABV🇺🇸 USA

America's answer to Belgian lambic — spontaneously fermented in a traditional coolship, then aged in oak barrels for years. Bright, dry, and funky with a wild complexity that gets better year after year in the cellar.

#30old foghorn

La Folie

New Belgium Brewing — USA
Sour Brown Ale6.0% ABV🇺🇸 USA

The Foeder Project's flagship — aged up to three years in large oak vessels called foeders. Sharp, tart, and vinegary with cherry, plum, and wine notes. America's most authentic take on the Flanders red style.

#72affligem tripel

Temptation

Russian River Brewing — USA
American Wild Ale7.25% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Blonde ale aged in Chardonnay barrels with Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, and Pediococcus. Crisp, tart apple, vanilla, and white wine notes — one of the most elegant American sour ales and a triumph of barrel-aged winemaking technique applied to beer.

#73boon kriek

Bam Bière

Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales — USA
Sour Farmhouse Ale4.5% ABV🇺🇸 USA

An open-fermented farmhouse ale with wild yeast and bacteria — tart, dry, and funky with hay, lemon peel, and a lovely earthy complexity. Jolly Pumpkin's commitment to wild fermentation in Dexter, Michigan put American sour beer on the global map.

#83
🍑Atrial Rubicite

Atrial Rubicite

Jester King Brewery — USA
Fruited Sour Farmhouse Ale5.8% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Texas Hill Country raspberries fermented with wild yeast captured on the farm outside Austin. One of America's most revered fruit sour ales — tart, funky, and alive with fresh raspberry, complemented by earthy Brettanomyces character. Release day queues are legendary.

#95
🍋Oud Beersel Geuze

Oude Geuze

Oud Beersel — Belgium
Oude Geuze6.0% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

One of the Payottenland's oldest surviving lambic producers — revived in 2005 after near-closure. A classic, spritzy geuze with lemon peel, oak, and funky brett notes. Tart and complex in the great Cantillon tradition, from a brewery that almost didn't survive.

#97
🍋Cuvee Rene

Cuvée René Oude Geuze

Brouwerij Lindemans — Belgium
Oude Geuze5.5% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

Lindemans' traditional face — entirely different from the sweet commercial lambics the brewery also produces. Named for René Lindemans, this traditional geuze is dry, tart, and effervescent — a reminder of the family's uncompromised lambic heritage.

#100
🍒Boon Kriek

Kriek

Brouwerij Boon — Belgium
Kriek Lambic4.0% ABV🇧🇪 Belgium

Boon's classic kriek — Schaerbeek cherries macerated in young lambic, the traditional way. Sharp, vinous, and dry, with a natural cherry tartness that puts commercial fruit beers to shame. One of the most authentic expressions of Belgian wild ale tradition.