Russian River Supplication

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

Batch 3. Poured a slightly cloudy orange, with just a little foam on top. Aroma is as expected: RR Sour-ness and a little light fruit. Flavor as expected again, but gladly with a little more complexity due to its medium amount of alcohol. In other words, it’s very similar to Beatification, but has a little more flavor simply because it’s slightly heavier. Palate medium, par. Overall, good. Top 50 material? No.

Bottle batch 002 thanks to ross. A bit of a gusher. Pours reddish brown with a thick foamy off-white head. Smells of damp oak, tart cherries, grassy brett funk, some candi sugar and a bit of port. Flavor is strong sour cherry with a delicate creamy sweetness balancing it. There is a strong oak note and grassy funk from the brett, a bit vinous too. Medium body with a very lively carbonation.

Bottle@RBESG ’05. Pours a red’ish light brown. Aroma is oaky, sour, with notes of cherries. Taste is sour, cherries, strange. Perhaps it’s the lactobacillus that gives me the idea of yugurt really good, but strange :-)

Bottle. Pours a hazy orangey brown. Some light caramelized malt aromas, with something funky, maybe horsey and maybe a bit medicinal. Didn’t seem to get as much cherries as others. More of the same for flavors, but fairly acidic and tart, and a fairly dry finish. It has a nice pleasant light body given all that it offers. This grew on me the more I had.

[Bottle] shared by DeliriumFest on BA. Pours a glowing gold with a small effervescent white head. Aroma is really funky, tart, dry, and not much for cherries. Flavor is oaky and a little funky, only has a hint of cherry, and a great lingering lactic tartness.

thanks cmubeerman. batch 2 and 3 side by side. Batch 2 is really excellent - sour, funky and tart, lemony. Extremely well balanced and outwardly Russian River. Batch 3 is much more subdued, but still similar. Oily in the mouth, especially when compared to the fresh tartness of batch 2. (batch 2 = 4.3, batch 3 = 3.7). What a fun vertical.

375ml bottle from MrBendo. Batch 2. Aroma: Lots of sour cherries and oak. Brett, light spiciness, and a bit of alcohol. Appearance: Reddish gold in color and slightly hazed. Light bone head was small and creamy with good retention. Great lacing. Flavor: Lots of sour cherries upfront which melds smoothly into the oakiness. Brett gives a light funk in the mid-taste. Tartness gives a good pucker, but isn’t to much. Finishes quite dry. Palate: Medium bodied. Moderate carbonation. Overall: Another solid offering from RR. Well crafted and delicious.

Bottle at Monk’s: Poured an orangish color with not much head. The aroma was sour fruit and oak. The flavor was red wine, oak, cherry, sour and funk. Overall, another excellent beer from R.R.