Crosby's Kitchen & CocktailSours in the Attic

Sours in the Attic is the second beer in our barrel aged draft series. It is a blend of our JB’s Downtown Brown and Red Snapper Roasted Pale Ale, each soured separately in oak casks and then blended to the perfect proportion of roasty, tangy, earthy, sour deliciousness. We first discovered oak-aged sour ales on a trip to Belgium way back in in 2002. When we expanded our brewpub later that year, we realized that the cellar under our new banquet space was the perfect spot for starting our own sour program. So we inoculated 4 used wine barrels with our favorite Belgian gueuze in the hopes that all of the beneficial micro-bacteria responsible for its unique flavor profile would take up residence in our oak barrels. It wasn’t long before our home-grown colony was producing some of the best sour beers in the US so in 2013 we expanded the sour program with the addition of another half dozen barrels and are now offering a rotating sour draft for your drinking pleasure. These one of a kind brews are hand selected and blended and available only at our Ann Arbor brewpub. Cheers!