HOPIQ SCORE
The Top 50 Beers
14 beers from 5 breweries · Ranked by style authenticity — not marketing
These rankings are dynamic. As more people rate, match and like beers on hopIQ, community signals will increasingly shape the results alongside style authenticity and award recognition.
These beers rank highest on the hopIQ Score — a nightly-updated weighting of style authenticity, award history, and community signals. Filter by style family or country to narrow the list; the top-3 podium and full ranking below always reflect the current day’s data.
How this ranking works
The hopIQ Score weights style authenticity (80%), user engagement (10%), notability (10%), and award history. Active, in-production beers only — non-alcoholic excluded. No paid placement — order follows the data alone. Ranking spans 14 beers from 5 breweries.
Top 5 of 14
Mr SuitBest Overall
ABV
5%
Bitterness
Mild
Colour
golden 8
Mr Suit is a wild fruit ale from Burning Sky Brewery, based in the rural East Sussex village of Firle in southern England. Fermented with a mixed yeast culture and aged on redcurrant purée, it pours a hazy blush-tinged amber with a soft,… Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
Wild Gift ApricotBest Session
ABV
4.2%
Bitterness
Mild
Colour
golden 6
Wild Gift Apricot is a captivating wild ale from Burning Sky Brewery in Firle, East Sussex, pouring a hazy, pale golden straw with a delicate white head. Brewed with two strains of Brettanomyces alongside Lactobacillus, this Sussex… Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
Cuvee 2019
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
Mild
Colour
golden 6
Cuvee 2019 from Burning Sky Brewery in Firle, East Sussex, is a thoughtfully crafted farmhouse blend drawing from their house Saison à la Provision — aged in foudre no.1 and Chardonnay barriques — then married with authentic Belgian lambic… Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
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Cuvee Reserve
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
Mild
Colour
golden 6
Cuvee Reserve from Burning Sky Brewery in Firle, East Sussex, is a remarkable farmhouse blend that pushes British wild ale craft into boldly experimental territory. Hazy gold in the glass with a fine, evanescent head, it opens with an… Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
5
Coolship No.1
ABV
6.8%
Bitterness
Mild
Colour
golden 6
Coolship No.1 is a spontaneous sour ale from Burning Sky Brewery, based in the picturesque East Sussex village of Firle in southern England. Their first release of its kind, it is brewed in the traditional Belgian lambic spirit — wort… Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
Ranks 6–10
6
Flanders Red
Burning Sky Brewery's Flanders Red hails from the village of Firle in the Sussex South Downs, bringing a distinctly Belgian-inspired vision to the English countryside. Pouring a deep, garnet-tinged red with a delicate off-white head, this… Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
7
Cherry
Polly's first sour beer, promoted to the core range five years on. Sweet morello cherries meet a gentle sourness, with sea salt adding a slightly savoury edge. At 4.5 percent it does exactly what the name says — nothing more needed. Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
8
Sharp Dressed Sour
A tart, refreshing sour with the brewery's biggest fruit addition yet: a hundred kilos of sour cherry, blackberry and blueberry. Three dark fruits that bring colour and a second layer of acidity alongside the lactic sourness. Five percent. Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
9
A Passion For Fashion – Lime Gose
A Gose built on confrontation: the lime arrives mouth-puckeringly sour, so face-scrunchingly sharp that your mouth puckers before the swallow. Underneath sits the Anglesey sea salt—115 kilograms of fresh lime and a kilo of mineral brine… Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
10
Strawberry Sundae
Vault City's most iconic core sour and best-selling beer since its inception. A fruit-forward modern sour with luscious strawberry character and a sweet-sour balance. Mixed fermentation base with strawberry puree. Dangerously easy to drink. Ranked here for style-fit against the Sour reference and award history in Sour-specific categories.
The taste landscape
Of the 14 top beers, 0 lean malt-forward and 9 lean hop-forward.