Russian River Supplication

375mL Bottle, Batch #2. Pours a hazy pinkish light brown with quickly disappearing bubbly foam. Aroma is huge and oaky with more dimensions than Lawnmower Man. Flavor is a bit harsh at first but settles into it’s own as it warms up, tart fruity and dry dry dry. Good stuff.

Bottle. Oh man, did I love this one! Hazy amber with a ring of a white head. Sour cherries, model glue, leather and red wine. Big, bretty sour cherry flavors, pleasantly tart, mild woodiness. Awesome.

Bottle. Hazy, cloudy, orange, light borwn. Wine-barrel, Gruyere-cheese aroma. Incredibly tart, sour-apple, grassy. A sour patch kid in a bottle. Very nice.

Thanks to Immy. 375ml bottle batch 002. Pours amber in color with white head. Aroma sweet cherries. Taste of sweet and tart cherries.

Bottle from bu11zeye or odeed? Pours red with traces of off white bubbles. Smells of strong cherries, oak, sugar, some perfumy hints. Tastes vinegary and very tarte with a strong oaky quality. Somewhat bitter on the finish. Mouthfeel is on the thin side with some dry tanginess.

37.5 cL bottle. Aroma of sour cherries. Sure, it’s more complicated than that, but reductio ad absurdum! How many ales can be inhaled rather than quaffed? Beautiful cherry amber color with a ring of tiny head bubbles. Medium bodied. Starts with woody sour cherries. Then it gets seriously sour. Tannic might apply. Like sucking fresh cut oak. The finish is simply sour. With cherry pits, wood, bark, all sorts of whatever. Would it be wrong to consider this infected ale? Where are the lines to be drawn? If anyone has used this as a marinade for lamb or beef, let me know how it turned out.

Batch 2 - bottle from Capone’s. Pretty reddish color with a nice off-white fizzy head. Sour aroma with some winey-grape, wood, apple, cherry, and pleasant funk. Taste is pleasantly sour with lots of sour fruit - cherry, apple, lemon. A nice amount of woody/oak/wine in there. Ol’ Brett really shines in this one. Really nice feel on the tongue, though it fell just a notch below the dancing feel of Cuvee de Castleton - My only regret is that I hadn’t had the Captain Lawrence brew so recently as this one deserves to stand on its own as an outstanding brew. Its pretty brilliant. And to think I’m just getting into the world of wild ales.......... Rerate of a 002 in June 08 - still great, but that woody nose is even better. What a beer!

Courtesy of boboski, damn, how am I going to repay you? I always seem to get a bit hyped when I open one of Vinnie’s barrel aged elixirs. Pours a reddish brown color. Aroma is insane. Cherries, sourness, earth, vanilla, Granny Smith apples. Flavor is intense, full bore and in your face. Fruit is there, wood is there, hell yes, the funk is there. Amazing.