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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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!

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!

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!

Bottle @ Stephen’s house, courtesy of TheAlum. Thanks so much, Adam! Pours a bit hazy, dark orange appearance with a white head. Super funky, fairly cheesy, big lemony tart, oaky, woody/herbal/barnyard aroma. Very nice aroma! Somewhat juicy lemon, big lactic-like sourness, ultra-vanilla, quite carbonated, fairly tropical fruity/bretty, very funky flavor. R u jokin or wat? Fuck yeah.

Thank you, my friend!!! Sincere ’cheers’ to you and yours. Clear bronze, whisper-ring of a head, ephemeral lacing. Autumn leaves, fresh goat-milk yogurt, homemade apple cider vinegar, and wholesome malt ... all rolled up into a sublimely funky ’rind’, and then cradled in a blanket of lemon-like tartness. The perpetually evolving, lingering finish is a real joy as the malt gently ricochets off notes of hardy oak and wild yeast. How much fun is this? Only 5.4% ... how lovely.

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!

500ml bottle. Opens with a hiss and some carbonation jumps up towards the cap. A nice sour pucker is release in the smell. The beer is a hazy peach and has a fizzy head that quickly dissipates. The smell is quite nice. It is initially pretty sour but after a few whiffs more scents come out. Cherries, vinegar, oak, grapes, some malt sweetness, and a very nice but not over the top but of cheesy funk. The flavor is also great. Medium sourness that doesn’t linger. Instead oak and vanilla dominate the finish. Up front it is acidic and sour with vinegar, sour apples, and lemons. Mid palate is malty and fruity. The funk isn’t as prevalent in the flavor. It is mostly just a well-balance sour. The mouthfeel is pretty carbonated and it ends up pretty dry. New Glarus strikes again.

Bottle shared by Drewbeerme. Thanks! Pours an attractive gold with a fluffy head that falls off. Nose is great. White wine grapes, peach and apple. Tart and fresh with an earthy note. Crisp. On tasting, really similar to Temptation. Medium tartness, drying finish. Good body. Clean and refreshing overall. Nice pilsner malt notes on palate along with more cling fruit; apricot is nice. Great beer!

Bottle given to me by Dan, thank you!! Pour is cloudy yellow copper with a wispy white head. Aroma is spicy with hints of oak and a light lactate note. The flavor is way more tart than the aroma led me to believe. Puckering with sharp acidic notes and a smooth, woody and spicy finish. Clean and really exceptional.

500 ml bottle
I wish I had more than a single bottle left. This is an excellent sour that is just as good as anything you will find from Lost Abbey, Upland, Destihl’s, or the other breweries working on perfecting the art. Maybe it is the air in southern Wisconsin, the skills of the brewer, or both, but this is world class.

Aroma / Appearance - The radiant orange body and soft ivory head look a bit like tart Slice. Bubbly carbonation rises with active energy. Vinegar soaked oranges are intense and dry. In the background lemons and other citrus aspects support the intensity within.

Flavor / Palate - Dry sour oranges rub the tongue with a gritty intensity. Sharp and acidic this doesn’t even attempt a measure of subtlety. Lemon sorbet hangs in the back of the throat as it clears away a full day of other flavors. Hopefully you have two - one to enjoy now and one to savor in a few years.