Deification
Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.43
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft, Toronado. Wonderful sour. This beer came as something of a surprise, trying it third after rushing for glasses of Toronado 20th and Deviation. It measured up rather well to the rest of the group. It’s sour and crisp with lot of subtle complexity. There are some apple, earth and oak notes with more delicately fruity malt than I was prepared for. This is yet another incredible sour from Russian River. It would be great to see bottles.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at the Russian River Brewery. It poured clear gold with thin white head. It has a big aroma of mild sweetness, yeasty funky sourness and mild tartness. It isn’t over the top sour or tart. The flavor is sourness that mixes with mild sweetness and turns tart as the experience progresses. There’s mild wood, floral and spice hop notes too. Refreshing offering.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On Tap at the BP Pale orange/yellow. Hazy with a small off white head. The prett is an interesting addition to this. Nalty sweet and sour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the pub. Cloudy, dark gold with a white head. Hoppy citrus aroma with a sweet citrus flavor but with some bitterness added.
omhper (45152) reviewed Deification from Russian River Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the brewpub. Clear pale amber. Light acidic barnyrad aroma. Dryish with fairly clean mouthfeel. Citric and lively with some grassy hops. Has some similarities to good, dry cider. Not as complex as for instance Supplication, but still very good.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Deification from Russian River Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2005 hand bottled sample shared with SuIIy on 2/9/06.
The beer has lost nothing to hand-bottling and shipping, seemingly, pouring with a large amount of fairly dense, white head that leaves a mess of lace all about and is retained quite well. The body is a soft, vanilla wafer orange with a bit of ripe lemon skin. Small bubbles stick to the glass and rise reluctantly to bolster the head.
The nose has a crusty/crackery graininess that is supplanted with sweet honey and pale malts which, in turn, give way to the brett. Oh glorious brett! Quite pronounced, tart and playful, mingling easily with the grainy and sweet malts. Dosent provide the clarity and utter jaw-dropping brett aroma of Orval (or even Matilda) but then, I don’t think it aims to. Some light hoppiness, farmy and lightly floral comes in to play, though surprisingly, the aroma doesnt come off overly dry.
Taking a sip, I figure out why that is. The beer is very well-malted, sweet and fruity, though importantly, not doughy. A fair helping of brett gets things rolling and then one is treated to overripe fruits; tart-like notes of nectarines, peaches and pears. In the middle, I seem to find a smidgeon of diacetyl, just a hint of light buttercream or white pepper like dryness, but perhaps that is just my imagination. It certainly is nothing worth dwelling upon. The brett resumes and clears the palate, wiping the fruitiness away and nearly balancing the sweetness, while hops vibrancy (hay, cut grass, sweat) melts in to a sea of finely carbonated bubbles, quite tight and engaging. While the beer is quite sweet (relatively speaking), and less attenuated than Orval and Orval knock-offs, it is not doughy or overyeasted (with saccharomyces) by any means. Alcohol is no where to be found.
In other news, I seriously need to stop comparing every Belgian pale ale that has brett in it to Orval!
Oakes (33770) reviewed Deification from Russian River Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draught, at the brewpub
Hazy light amber colour. Soapy, perfumey hop character with strawlike pale malts adding to the mix. Fresh, fruity character with light dusty yeast notes, hints of pear and a good amount of brett. Great beer - takes the effort of a master and utilizes it in a beer for the proletariat without either dumbing it down nor pricing it up. Kick ass.
bb (18607) reviewed Deification from Russian River Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. Golden amber beer with a whitish head. Soured aroma, but nothing very strong. Tart flavor with a bit of green apple. Creamy mouthfeel. Tartness complements the beer very nicely - it’s not at all overpowering. Dry finish.