New Glarus R & D Sour Ale

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Absolutely wonderful. A hair better than te Gueze, in my opinion. Such complexity with nothing over powering everything else. Wonderful.

My 1300th. Bottle, pours bright amber orange with a quick sudsy white head that fades to nothing, but some faint bubbles along the edge of the glass. Aroma is sour funk and stinky cheese with fruitiness. Taste is amazing sourness like sour candy and leather along with cheese and wine notes. Palate is full and fizzy with a awesome sour drying finish. Wow this is one of the best sours to date!

Pours to a deep brassy hazy body with a starch white head. The aroma is ungodly good. Tart acidic peaches that reminds me of a Cantillon. Flavors of acidic and acetic tart peaches and nectarines. This is the most like Cantillon that I have ever had. Sour palate is refreshing and perfect. This was a FABULOUS beer!

Bottle - Hazy amber pour with a thin filmy off-white head. The nose is great...more reminiscent of the classic Belgian lambics than the R&D Gueuze ever was. Lemony tartness, light funky earthiness, and a real creamy, yogurty malt base. Funk this up a little more and you’re drinking 3 Fonteinen or Cantillon. Similar taste--lots of lemony tartness, citrus rind, creamy plain yogurt malt base, and a puckering, vinegar finish. Long finish shows more citrus rind. It’s earthy, with some hay and light funk. Really carbonated, but doesn’t bit the tongue--just fills the mouth. Wow...what an awesome beer. I can’t wait to see how these beers progress as each batch comes out and is presumably blended with prior batches.

Bottle. Hazy straw yellow pour, plenty of carbonation (even when poured slowing) and a very nice funky sour, cheesy aroma. Flavor is nice slightly funky lemon citrus, herbal, creamy and light lingering sourness on the aftertaste. Solid beer, glad I have a few more bottles of this!

Many thanks to Blake for sharing! Poured cloudy peach with a creamy, short whitish head. The aroma picked up sour cherry dust, oak, tannins, and sour wheat.. deep earthiness too.. very welcoming. The flavor was tart and bracing upfront, with oak and vinegar leading.. more vinegar and funky horseblanket behind.. finished sour, oaky, and funky. Very sour through the palate, but it never felt unbalanced.. gripping and enjoyable. This was excellent!

Amber orange color tiny white head, but mostly flat. Funky sour aroma hints of leather and old cheese dry oak some sour prickly pear a good amount of earth. Good palate well carbonated and a touch fluffy. Tart slightly sour leather earth some green apple skins. Very great true to style reminiscent of Cantilon.

Pours clear, deep amber with nice white head. Lots of carbonation, head disappears pretty quickly. Nice funky nose. Snappy tart taste mellowing into a nice funkiness with some wood character a hint of fruit. Reminds me of those fancy Belgian beers that you can’t buy in Minnesota. Very nice!

Sampled at 4 Hands cellar night. A hazed gold pour with a rong. The nose is very sour with fruit and funk. I taste sourness, tannin, fruit, and funk. A bit sour for my liking but this is not bad at all.

Golden with no head. Super tart nose. Really sour, a clean sour with a hint of red fruit. Somewhat overcarbed which I think ruins the finish.