Russian River Supplication

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

dark yellow thick creamy well laced white head. Smells of tart cherries and some spices. Nice even coated palate. Flavor is a very tart cherry, aftre that hints of butter and a dry wood finish. Ok beer, odd for a belgian.

gabf 06. amber with medium to high carbonation. Aroma is brett, light caramel malts, some light funkiness, fruits and wood. Taste is lightly sour cararmel malt, brett, oak, some wet basement like taste, with a dry tart finish. a great beer.

bottle-sampled at the brickskeller in DC. pours orange with a small white head that was fizzy. really didn’t look all that special. noce of sour and oaky cherries, vineous wine, cocanut and dark cherries. soft palat with light carbonation for the style. long sour and oaky flavors with a touch of vinegar and lots of cherries. palate is very nice i must say. nice and truely unique. very complex and im very happy to have been able to try this fine brew.

Draft at Liars’ Club with legion242. Great to meet you John. Dark orange with a head that faded to a ring and maintianed nice lacing throughout. Aroma and flavor were rather vinous. Very tart, and pretty good.

courtesy of shig. Pours cloudy amber/orange, no head. Aroma is a big sour bomb, tart fruits Taste is sour. Some fruits come across as tart, medium carbonation with a light tingly spicy wood mouthfeel.

Brilliant red-orange with some haziness. Good nose, caramelized sugar and vanilla, some banana and breadiness, plus sourness, very interesting. Flavor has a huge bit of ginger in the initial kick, then lots of sweetness and mild sourness. Really incredibly bready and cookie-ish, tastes like a big, chewy Christmas cake. Complex, restrained, and elegant.

GABF 2005: aroma of sour cherry with nice wood notes. Flavor is brett and cherry that is sour with a light sweetness. I love Russian River and this is another reason why.

375-ml. bottle, batch 001, courtesy of CaptainCougar - thanks Tom! Beautiful, hazy and glowing rusty orange with a few bubbly ice sheets as the head. Continued pouring yields a perfect foamy tan head and some of the best lacing I’ve ever seen. Aroma is a predicator of complexity. Sour grapes, pinot grigio, freshly squeezed lemons, pale figs, cotton, lilies of the valley and freesia. Masochistically complex. An anticipated souring presence is shunned for a performance of modest, balanced and elegant simplicity. Oaken smoothness, mashed grapes, fig extract and cherry cobbler. It’s got its sourness but it maintains a healthy, welcoming plateau, never reaching an arguable forte of sourness. Mild sour nodes are sustained by sweet fruity esters of nectarines, apricots and orange rind. Light, delicately sour and omnipresent palate sense, neither forthright nor intimidated. Yeasty, bready quaff lead into a finish of golden raisins and chardonnay. The time and attention dedicated to this creation should be commended.