Sour pickles sit in a bucket of brine at a stall at Picklesburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 2024. The festival, held just off the city’s Market Square each year, brings pickle lovers and permutations ...

the balance of flavors in a pickle-wich will be different. A full-sour pickle, which is fermented in a salt and water brine for an extended period of time, will, naturally, be very salty ...

In Pittsburgh, the cradle of the modern American pickle (talkin’ to you, H.J. Heinz), a summer festival called Picklesburgh that draws aficionados of the sour and the puckery from several states ...