Buxton and Omnipollo, Stolen Fruit

My second bottled sour at home I think (I had the Kernel's London Sour a long while back iirc). I'm afraid I turned my nose up at sours a while back - I remember the Beavertown/Wild Beer Co collab Rubus Maximus not really doing it for me and sort of (totally unfairly) dismissing all sour beers out of hand. However, since the Zwanze micro-hype and the Kernel flashing pornographic images of their taking delivery of their new foeders, I figured I'd be damned if I wasn't going to try to ride this next beer trend wave (that Fou'Foune sounds well sophisticated bruv). Anyway, so far, I've had a go at the Brodie's + Brewdog Clapham collab Southside Zester and the Wild Beer Schnoodlepip (not a trad. sour I suppose).

(I read this: apparently IPAs are mainstream now. Obviously I'll come off as some sort of fickle hipster about this 'new' sour beer thing, so without wanting to protest too much, I'll just hold my hands up and admit to being a new fad whore. But it's always good to try new things (except incest and barn dancing, apparently) and push yourself right?)

So with the caveat that I know next to nothing about sour beer....I liked this one (the German version of the Belgian equivalent: Berliner Weisse) from Buxton and Omnipollo. Grapefruit and lime massively evident off the nose and in the taste. Minor 'beer elements' it seemed to me. Obviously puckering, sharp and sour yet moresish and quite mellow and drinkable once I'd acclimatised to that. Massive thanks to my brother Konrad for this as a spot on birthday present!