Russian River Supplication

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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375ml bottle at Hunahpu’s Day 2013. Pours with a slight white head. Sour grapes and apples. Tart, but not overwhelming and mouthpuckering. Refreshing.

Rich amber color, abundant head, delicious aroma, and even better taste. Aroma is citrus-y, sour, candy-sweet, yet somehow balanced and distinctly beer-like. Flavor is distinctly sour. A must have!

My second sit down with this beer, 375ml corked a caged quite sexily. split into 2 snifters per bottle and cork instructions, batch dated 8.27.12. Pours a ruddy brownish red with no head to speak of. Nose of red fruits and hay and a little basement. This bangs with all the best Flanders styled beers for me, super refreshing tartness without being overbearing, lots of beautiful horse blankest wrapping bowls of cherries rolling around in mouth and having a party. I wish it was hot out because I feel like this would make you feel really special on a hot day, will procur another bottle to test this hypothesis. Mouthfeel is full and carbonation is low to medium letting the funk take the front seat. Amazing brew, a reason to fall in love with sours.

Oh, Supplication. Always the second fiddle to its big brother Cons. Yet somehow this batch (08/27/12) captures the magic of Supp better than precious batches, blending the flavors & bacteria together better than any previous batch I've tried. Fruity, yet dry; sour, yet strongly oaky. I could drink this every day.

Perhaps the best sour brown ale available. Nice brown ale backbone, complemented beautifully by the Brett. What does it for me though is the subtle cherry flavor imparted during the barrel aging. The red wine barrel taste also makes an appearance at the end. Wonderfully complex yet balanced sour! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

If you like sours this is the one. Red color with a small head. Pleasant smell of tart cherries and sour grapes. Taste is dominated by a sour cherry flavor. I think this is my favorite sour.

Love it. Amber color, funky, Pinot nose. This beer just pops, sour initially, but finishes smooth, you definitely get the cherry and Pinot notes as well. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

375ml bottle thanks to changeup45. WARNING: stout drinkers first sour. Have the pleasure of drinking a batch 4. After popping the cork I got a familiar aroma of red wine. Maybe some barley wine mixed in. Pours a murky brown color into my balloon tulip glass. Keeps a nice steady thin foam island in the glass. Slight lacing. Sip #1. Holy moly this is gross. OK not gross just not expected. "Give it a chance Art". I keep telling myself "Think wine". Sip #2. Another whiff. Funky aroma. I smell some cherries. Wow is this thing Sour! The taste reminds me of Warheads candies I had as a kid. Maybe a cherry warhead. I wish I had a comparison with a fresh one at this point but I’m sure this is a delicious beer to some. No concern that it has gone bad. Let me check back after I’ve acclimated a bit..............OK I’m back. I’m getting used to this. More cherries coming out now. Still super sour. Causing phlegm to build up. Be right back. ...............ok I’m still going strong. I hope this is entertaining to some. If you enjoyed this message me and send me some other top 100 sours. I’ll do the same. The sourness is tolerable now. I think this is probably how first time IIPA drinkers feel. I’m definitely going to revisit and re-rate this one later. So my last few sips have actually been enjoyable and have changed my perception of this beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Ruby grapefruit colour with a thin, lacing head. Pinot noir hits you full in the face, but with time the cherries and a slight funkyness become more prominent. Massive sour punch filled with grapefruit and sour cherry flavors. Thin, well-carbonated body which adds to the acidic kick of the beer. Clean, tart ending that leaves you reaching for more.

Bottle from Mill Valley Market..Golden brown with a thin layer of white head that fizzles out nearly immediately. Poured without much yeast, so it’s fairly clear. Smell is very tart. A good amount of grape/wine in the nose. There is also some sour cherry. At the first sip, the flavor overwhelms, in a good way. The smell was an indication of what I would find in the taste. It’s incredibly tart/sour. There’s a bit of wine and sour cherry or raspberry in it. The Brett comes out hard in the taste. The carbonation compliments the flavor quite well. There’s a lot of effervescence that spreads the flavor throughout my palate. Overall, this is a remarkable beer.