Beatification
Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Unblended Rotating|
Score
8.16
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Although we enjoyed aging Batch #1 in used La Folie barrels from New Belgium Brewery, one of which was the renowned PH1 barrel, Batch #2 is something completely different. After a trip to Belgium in 2006, Vinnie successfully tried his hand at spontaneous fermentation using traditional, and not so traditional, Lambic methods. Out of respect for our Belgian brewing friends, we call this style “Sonambic”, a portmanteau between Sonoma and Lambic.
We stole this term from our friend Brian Hunt at Moonlight, our local farmhouse brewery. In 2007, we executed a second spontaneous fermentation, making yet another batch of Sonambic. This year, we blended those two batches to create our second bottling of Beatification which we are very excited about! Batch #2 has a big grapefruit aroma and grapefruit rind flavor with funky Brettanomyces and a tart finish.
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Had this before Untappd. So good. Thanks BrandoSF
Garrold (11394) reviewed Beatification from Russian River Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, by way of a trade. Mostly clear gold. Slim halo of white. Nose has preserved lemon. Fresh cut oak. Lime leaf. Vanilla pod. Smelly brett. Some leather. Taste is dry and tart, with an oaky, apple like sweetness. Medium body. A little oily. Fine carbonation. Some astringency. Finish gets tart, dry, bretty and funky. Nice one, predictably.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Beatification from Russian River Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Super crisp and ever so slightly hazy pure blonde coloured body with a super thin, pale white head. Aroma of white grape juice, pale malt, wheat, grass, hay, flowers and a heavy amount of Brett and a pungent yeast strain. Light-bodied; Clean and very elegant grassy and herbal flavour with a lot of light fruits like white grapes, apples and a dose of guava that show above the pure clean yeast notes, but the sweetness, bread from the yeast and especially the tartness, which is ever present. Aftertaste shows a lot of clean wheat, lemons, citrus and pure brett and yeast throughout that makes this very elegant and enjoyable. Overall, a very nice, crisp and refined beer that shows all the important pieces, especially the fruit, yeast and tartness and done superbly - great overall! Get this one if you can find it, I'm glad that I had this on tap, but I'd get a few bottles if I could find them, to age! I sampled this eight ounce pour on draught from Toronado in San Francisco, California on 13-March-2019. Batch #17 (or the sign in Toronado says Beatification 17.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Flaska från trade. Vintage 2013. Smådisig ljusguldig med vit krona. Funkigt, syrligt med snygga toner av gröna druvor, vit persika, päron, druvskal, citronskal och en lätt ton av filmjölk som jag kanske kunde varit utan. I övrigt clean och fin med bra fattoner. Åldern märks knappt av - oerhört pigg för sin ålder.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared with Pilsnertest. Pours cloudy yellow with brief, white head. Peach, white wine, heavily citric sourness, some oak and vanilla. Light and easy to drink. Lacks complexity.
Funky funky spunky
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
375ml bottle. Pours hazy bright yellow. White wine, peach, barnyard, biscuit, floral, elderflower, very floral, vanilla, nectarine, very tart. Good body. Excellent.
Camons (21577) reviewed Beatification from Russian River Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draught @ Russian River Brewpub, Santa Rosa. 2018 version on release day. Pours light golden with a white head. Aroma of light sourness, malt, yeast, brett, barnyard, wood, wine grapes, grapefruit. Flavor is lightly sour, malt, yeast, bretty, leather, wet wood, tart fruit, green grapes, citrus, grapefruit. Medium body, soft to average carbonation, dry and light acidic finish. Very well balanced. 200718
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle poured into a teku showing moderately filtered straw with a finger of clean white foam. The nose shows pronounced notes of brett and lighter tart notes of citrus and grapefruit. The palate is well carbonated and light bodied. Moderately tart with moderately intense notes of brett, grapefruit, grapefruit rind, and milder notes of apricot. Leaves a light zestiness on palate with light Belgian yeast sweetness.
Tart cherries, berries, other fruit - generally very tart, with nice oak barrel notes. 4.2