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Prickly Pear Wheat Beer
- Fruited Sour
- 6% ABV
- Label approved Oct 2, 2019
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Anderson Valley Brewing Co.'s Fruited Sour. Label approved 2 October 2019.
Stronger than 51% of the 750 Fruited Sour labels we've read.
From the label“Anderson Valley's Prickly Pear sour is truly a unique beer. A Belgian style wheat beer, barrel fermented with a mixed culture indigenous to our property. This house mix culture has several types of yeast and bacteria each of which brings its own individual character to the beer. The color is light pink derived from the prickly pear fruit. The flavor starts as wild, bretty, outdoorsy, and slightly sour. Adding the prickly pear imparts a decided fruit character with notes of plum and candied sugar. Ultimately it is just delicious.”
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 180–230 calories and 16–29 g carbs
About 120 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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About this beer
This is the 3rd of 9 labels we have from Anderson Valley Brewing Co. It is one of 154 fruited sour labels approved in October 2019. Its label was approved 28 days after it was submitted. The label carries barrel-aged on the front.
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Style: SourBrewery: Anderson Valley Brewing Co.