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The Ballad of Broken Beaks

Burial Beer Co.Asheville, NC
  • Fruited Sour
  • 4.6% ABV
  • Label approved Sep 12, 2019

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Burial Beer Co.'s Fruited Sour. Label approved 12 September 2019.

Lighter than 85% of the 750 Fruited Sour labels we've read.

From the label

“Golden Sour Ale with Grapes”

How to serve it

Serve at
42–48°F (6–9°C)
Glass
Teku: a stemmed bowl that gathers aroma, built for sour and hoppy beers

About 145–200 calories and 14–27 g carbs

About 90 of those calories come from the alcohol.

General guidance for Fruited Sour. Calories and carbs are estimates from the ABV and how the style usually finishes; numbers the brewery prints beat ours. More beer tools

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Readers' scores

About this beer

This is the 36th of 249 labels we have from Burial Beer Co. It is one of 83 fruited sour labels approved in September 2019. Its label was approved 14 days after it was submitted. The label carries barrel-aged on the front.

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A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.

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Style: SourBrewery: Burial Beer Co.