Russian River Supplication

This was a good sour,i am new to this style and only have had a couple but i am starting to really enjoy this style.Had in FL. as a gift from SoLan and was grateful for him trying with me.Taste was of sour cherries but not overpouring and it was very drinkable and aged in wood barrels.Batch 002 CHEERS!

Pretty decent. Color is a hazy orange. Aroma is pure sour beer...no fruit...much like a gueze. Flavor is sour with a bit of milky dryness. Mouthfeel is not quite as dry as most sours.

I so love flemish sours...Aroma is of sour mixed berries and comes wafting from a glass that contains an extremely murky copper colored brew. The palate is full and carbonated perfectly for the style. Taste=Wow. Woody, sour cherries (not overpoweringly sour), and vinuous flavors combine to create a really wonderful brew. This is my favorite from Russian River. Cheers to Vinnie!

12.7oz bottle, Batch 002 from Hollingshead Deli. Pours a cloudy orange caramel with a 1/2 finger fading beige head. Aroma is quite sour with brett and sour cherries, strawberries, oak and a good red winey characteristic. There is also a bit of brown sugar, though the sourness dominates. Taste is very sour as expected with the oak and wine shining through very well. Flavor has a good amount of tannins showing up in the dry mildly bitter finish. Reminds me of the Panil quite a bit. Medium body with moderate carbonation--hooray that it’s not too fizzy for once.

Im trying to keep an open mind on these sour beers, and to be honest, im beginning to stomach them better. less sweet than some other flemish sour ales I have had. This beer is sour. SUPER sour. Very dry as well. Not much else to say about it. I neither hated or enjoyed this beer.

375ml bottle from RR online. pours a hazy orangeish red with an off-white head that stuck around longer than most sours i’ve had. nose has wonderful brett to it works very well with sour cherries, lots of oak, and subtle hints of yeast and pinot. flavor is very oaky and bretty, sour, cherries, and pinot rounds the beer out. not as watery as other RR sours seem to me. easily my favorite RR i’ve had yet. well done Vinnie!

Bottle from RR online. Nose is less extreme than I expected at first, but still very pleasent. Sour cherries are beginning to be evident as the beer warms a bit, lots of heady bacteria (yum)., a little oak, and a deifinite red wine funk that just works so well. Deep oranage amber with small head that continually fades even after swirling. This is such a nice beer. Shockingly sour flavor with an inceredibly subtle, yet rich, cherry flavor in the finish. A little lemon and lime were also noted. The juices, not like Sprite or any shit like that. One of the best. Thanks Vinnie!

375ml from RR Store. Had side by side with Rodenbach Grand Cru 750 ml. Both in Damnation glasses and breathing for about 10 minutes. Supplication hazy and copper/amber as opposed to clear cherry red. Both with a sweet/tart sour acidic aroma but supplication with some brett funk in addition.Both had perfect body after warming. Rodenbach had more of a sweet/tart sharp taste.Whereas Supplication had pleasant sweet/tart taste with some brett funk which did not overwhelm but added character. Overall I can’t pick a winner. In my mind De Dolle Speciaal Brouwsel 20 was slightly sharper with more character than either the Supplication or the Rodenbach Grand Cru. But the De Dolle was over 2 years ago. Temptation was more musty and Le Woody was less balanced.