Russian River Deviation (Bottleworks IX)

Bottle. Rich amber hue, slight haze, enthusiastic foam. Joyous bretty aroma, filled with succulent wildflowers, seafoam, moonlight, and stars...soft, gently caressing mouthfeel. Leather and lace. Cherry pits ground up and served with laughter. Smooth, the sweetness on the sides of the tongue could smooth the pavement on the street. Endless complexity reveals itself like a poem, slowly capturing the attention at first then etching itself deeply into the soul. Fruit peels, rinds, and piths. Like capturing ancestral wisdom in a glass. Brilliance.

Funky, cheesey, grape-like nose coming off the cloudy orange color. Flavors were very sour and really funking cheesey. SOUR FUNKIN’ CHEEEESE!!!!!

Aroma is very sour and fruity. The beer is golden, but hazy. Flavor is sour like hell (suprise).

Hazy amber with with medium white head. Sour aroma with grapefruit, barnyard, hay and woody notes. Sour flavor with barnyard, grapefruit, leather and woody notes. Ends sour.

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours a very hazy golden with a creamy off-white head. Tart, Brettish nose. Light in body with distinct notes of horse blanket and a dry and astringent sourish finish. 260708

80th rating of this beer kind of an early 1600th rating. 750 via trade with Suzy Suzy Suzy Suzy Suzy Suzygreenberg. 3 birds one stone, top 50, another sour rating and sharing this my pal Kaitlyn who really likes sours, so hell yeah. Also shared with her boyfriend Adam. and my girlfriend Cyn. Ok onto the beer, orange pour with an off white head. Nose is bretty and oaky and sour. Taste is very acidic with a gueze like funk, funky on the front end. Really nice mouth feel. I love santification so this makes sense why this is so good.

Bottled - tasted blind - my 1800th US beer. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with a very acidic note too as well as some fruit. The flavor is sweet with fruity notes - primarily of peaches as well as some notes of grapefruit, and a strong acidic note, leading to a tart finish.

Got this at some place in Seattle when I was there. Sour to a point but not nearly as sour as I was expecting. The other flavours were very light and balanced the sour out very nicely. Very special beer.