Russian River Consecration

Brewed by Russian River Brewing
Style: Sour Ale
Santa Rosa, California USA

Bottled sample shared with oakbluff. Deep purple-brown in colour with strong carbonation. Aromas of funk, heavy pale malts, lemon, currents, and wood. Great contrasts of refreshing lemon and barnyard funk (along with some moderate acidic cabernet notes) against the vanilla and pale malt strength. Medium bodied. Not quite as quaffable as other Russian River sours, but just as amazing. A triumph!

750ml bottle courtesy of CaptainCougar at the DC Local Gathering. Amber-brown color, perhaps filtered. Minimal lacy head, though solidly carbonated. Big sour aroma with a touch of caramel. WOW! Perfect sour oaky taste. Wild yeast works itself solidly into the beer, never seeming excessive or offensive. Perfect mouthfeel, one of the better new-school Brett beers I’ve had. The currants give it a citrusy niceness as well. Top notch world class beer.

nose of malts, brett, wood, and red wine coming off a mahogany colored body with a cream colored head, which faded fast. flavors of wood and port wine, backed up by toasted malts balanced against the sour/funk/brett..the tartness really came through in the tail, and i thought this was infinitely more drinkable than Temptation

Bottle from Batch #2 sampled at the DC local gathering and again at the Russian River pub in Santa Rosa. Pours a copper, ruby amber with a soft beige head. Aroma of dark fruits, wood, funk, sweet tarts. Flavor is great, red grapes, sweet tarts, candy, lemons, cherries, wood. Finish is chalky, bitter and funky. Super drinkable. The bottle version had more/better carbonation than the pub version.

Pours a dark amber color with just a little white head. Has a funk, woody smell to it. Taste was a lot like smell but with a little bit of grapes in there and pretty sour on the finish

Bottle.Pours garnet with off-white head. Heavy oak and very mild viniousness dominate the aroma, mild fruitiness and slight mustiness. Flavor has lots of tartness, chewy berry notes, lightly dry with very slight astringency in the finish.

Thanks Rencelas! Pour is reddish brown with a thick tan head that dissipates slowly. Very active carbonation. Vinegar and fruit in the aroma. Flavor is the same with soy sauce coming late in the sip. Lots of funky cherry sourness. Warming brought out the wood flavor along with tannin. This is definitely a favored style of mine but this sour ale is full of interesting flavors.

Bottle from a beer store in Redmond, WA on 08/01/2009. Slightly untwisted cage waiting to be opened suddenly popped indicating that the beer demanded to be consumed. Batch 001X1. Very clear deep amber body with ruby highlights and a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet fruity aroma, lots of oak and a bit of alcohol. Sweet fruit, light funk and barnyard, some oak notes with some alcohol lingering around blending into a fairly dry fruit background. Medium body with high carbonation.