4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20Huge thanks to largadeer on BA for picking up this awesome rarity! Nice hazy copper color with just a small amount of white foam and great lacing. Aroma is bretty funk, honey, wild tartness, and oak. Flavor is fairly tart, but not overly so, with dry white wine, oak, lemon, and brown sugar. Incredibly well-balanced and tasty. Great sharp yet smooth palate with long finish and an biting acidic sensation lingering on the palate. This is another awesome sour beer from Vinnie at RR.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Sampled many times over the years at this point. Draft back in the day when it was released, and I think the last bottled sampled was sometime December 2012, thanks to Terry. He’d also popped bottles (as he had over a case to begin with) over the years since release. This brew is one of the most spectacular and mature sours I’ve ever had. It’s not trying to be overly loud, it’s just trying to be what it is: pure excellence. Even sampling the now 5-6 year old bottle last December, it had mellowed and smoother beautifully, aging like fine wine. Not sure how many bottles Terry has left, but I hope I’m around if another one gets opened!
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bottle shared at tasting at CCB. Pours cloudy amber with a small off white head. Aroma i s funky sour fruity balanced. Flavor similar to aroma, very nice balanced funky and sour. Tart finish. Very good indeed.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Clear amber with an off white head. Tart citrus, summer stone fruit, earth, with a little funky musty basement. Flavor is mildly funky, decent amount of oak, summer stone fruit and finishes tart. Reminds me of a mild beatification with a little more oak and funk. At first I wasn’t overly impressed, but as I went through my pour, the tartness started to build. I began to appreciate the subtle funk flavor mingling with the fruit and evergrowing tartness. Beautiful carbonation and palate. Very good.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
750 ml bottle - thanks to ForgetFu for sharing this beaty! Pours clear yellow golden. Aroma of peach, lemon zest and barnyard funk. Light and sour body with lots of tarty and fruity flavours. Definite like!
4.9 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bottle. Huge thanks to jeremy for this one. Pours a pumpkin copper, white head and lacing. Aromas are very woody with spicy cedar, sour lemons/peach and lactic acids. The ph1, sanctification, and orphan sonambic are a perfect combo. Dusty basement notes, musky oaks, yeast, bretty leathery goodness. The most balanced and maybe one of the best sours I have tried from America. More refined beatification, with a woody and long lasting tart dry finish. Insanely complex sour ale.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle sampled at Muckfest III. Amber pour with a thin off-white head. Peppery and funky nose with sour citrus notes. Malty and citrusy sour flavor with some subtle stone fruit before a peppery and sour finish.
4.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Biottle pulled out by Puddintane at Muckfest III...thanks Dave! - Clear amber pour with a huge foamy white head. Nose is pungent lemony tartness, vanilla, Smarties, and a malty, yogurt smoothness. Nice mellow oakiness in the taste, with lemon, citrus rind, apricot, and a vinegar tartness on the finish. Carbonation is velvet, with a big, full body. Wow is all I can say. I’ve heard some folks say this beer is going downhill. It may be for all I know, but if so I can only imagine what it was like in it’s prime. One of the best beers I’ve ever tasted. Thanks again Dave for the chance to try this one.
4.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
UPDATED: JUL 24, 2012 Bottled shared my masterchiefMD at my tasting on August 7, 2010. Thanks Chris! Served alongside six other Russian River wild ales.
A: This beer appears a hazy orange hue with a small head which fades and leaves some decent lacing on the glass.
S: The aroma is wonderful. I was surprised and pleased to detect citrus notes with a musty, funky sourness. Also subtle aromas of oak.
T: Wow. This wild ale lineup is remarkable, and Deviation is among the best of the best. The beer is very pleasantly sour and citric. The taste profile is very complex, with differing degrees of tartness, certainly from the blending. Sonambic Ale, PH1, Orphan Ale and Sanctification batch 001 have been woven masterfully to create this gem. I’m very thankful to have tried it.
M: Very tart, with a slight acetic sharpness in the finish. There is a nice, lingering aftertaste I enjoyed as long as I could.
D: Totally drinkable. I really hope I have an opportunity to enjoy this again.
4.9 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 20/20
poured into a Lost Abbey stemmed glass, served at 46 degrees. pours a deep gold with slight hue of brown. light fluffy white head that leaves very light retention. very light lacing. has that very typical russian river sonambic scent. deep sour flavors combined with a light peach and apricot. a light zest to it. starts out quite sour and then quickly allows the flavors to really emerge. lots of peach and apricot just dominate. light grape and lemon as background fruit. a light oaky and leathery combination then begin to show themselves. a very fruit finish. a bit of oak in the aftertaste. perfect carbonation, really highlights the flavors. a hint of dryness. sourness really tingles the mouth, but for a short time so the flavors are never dulled. this is pure perfection. i am always weary of hype but this is not hype, this is the real deal. Reviewed on: 03-20-2011
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle kindly shared by Dennis. Pours amber peach with white head. Nose/taste of sour peach, aged cheese, oak, cherries, wild yeast and ripe peaches. Medium body. Lots of peach still on the palate. Finishes mildly acidic.
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