Stone Hound Brewing Co.’s Sour de TART

Bottoms Up

By Craig Manning | July 10, 2021

Nothing says summer like a tall glass of ice-cold lemonade. The Sour de TART from the recently opened Stone Hound Brewing Co. in Acme is a fitting stand-in: A cherry-lemonade sour beer that tastes so much like your favorite lemonade you’ll hardly notice the 5.4 percent ABV. The hint of cherry tartness comes courtesy of King’s Orchards in Central Lake (recently White House-approved, following a visit last weekend from President Joe Biden), which supplied the Balaton tart cherries that went into the fermenter to make this beer.

Best of all, drinking a Sour de TART is also a charitable exercise: As the name implies (it’s a play on “Tour de TART,” the July bike race that serves as the biggest annual fundraiser for TART Trails), Stone Hound’s Sour de TART is a partnership of sorts with Traverse City’s beloved recreational trail organization. One dollar from every pint sold goes toward TART to support the construction of the Acme Connector Trail, which will extend the TART Trail from its current terminus at Bunker Hill Road to the Acme Meijer and beyond. Where the trail terminates now is just a stone’s throw from Stone Hound’s front door, so when you reach the end of the trail, why not stop in to try this summer-friendly beer and support that next phase of trail development?