Russian River Temptation

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

Had on draught at Russian River. Pours golden blonde with a small white head and very nice lacing. Aroma is strongly vinous with hints of oak, yeast, and acid. Taste is amazingly complex with strong flavors of oak, chardonnay, malts, acetic acid, and the perfect amount of sourness. An easier drinking sour than the Consecration and Supplication, but no less complex or enjoyable. Worth $25/bottle? Perhaps. Worth it on tap straight from the source, any day.

375 ml bottle courtesy of tkrjukoff. Shared at epic tasting on February 11. Pours clear golden with a small creamy white head that leaves no trace while quickly dissipating. Smell is sour and funky with lemon juice, orange zest, some sweet fruits and dusty farmyard. Taste is sour with grapes, lemon juice, orange peal, sweet fruits, hay, leather and wood. Mouthfeel is sour, slightly watery and very balanced. Finish is tart with citrus fruits and farmyard hints.

Another good sour from RR. not as good as consecration or supplication but up there!

Bottle. The pour was a murky medium yellow with an average sized (1-2 finger) white frothy head that reduced to just a thin foamy film that hung to the sides of the glass thus producing some excellent sheeting of lace. The aroma was harsh of a grain malt and a funky moldy yeast (Brett) with notes of peach, pears, lemon and a winey oak scent. The taste was slightly sweet and tart with a note of peach in the beginning then quickly got extremely sour with a big dose of citrus and a hint of wine and wood at the end. The flavor stuck around for a good long while after the swallow with a nice sour citrusy taste left to lie on the taste buds. Mouthfeel was just a tad under medium in body with a nice dry creamy texture and an extremely lively carbonation. Overall a seriously sour brew with great notes of citrus, wine and oak. Which all together make this a very delectable tasting beer.

Pours clear golden with a small bubbly off ehite head leaving smsll laces. Aroma is fruity, sour, sweet, honeyish. Flavor is sour, tart, vinous, fruity, dry yet has some sweetness, crisp, berry, bitter and malty. Finishes sour fruity tart.

Bottle at "Alex surölsprovning 2012". Golden, almost no head. Fruity aroma, sourish, grapefruit, malty, fruity, sour, yeasty notes. Fruity yeasty flavor,, sourish, grapefruit, woody, some figs. Long. Fruity sourish finish, grapefruit and citrus.

Taste like drinking some tequilla. Has a slight sour taste. No bitterness. Its a good sour.

Pours golden with frothy white head. Beautiful peach and pear notes throughout, with oak and vanilla really putting it over the top. Unreal

pours very light yellow with a small white fizz. Aroma is sweet and sour. Flavor is kinda light finishes off more sour than it starts. Very good sour.