Funky Foeder
Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.61
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A mildly sour beer aged in large oak foeders with tart cherries for 6 to 12 months. Distinctive aromatics of cherry, notes of raspberry, strawberry, and rhubarb.
Tasting Notes: Cherry | Tart | Red Berry Fruit
ABV: 7.0%
Category: Belgian-Inspired / Barrel-Aged
Availability: Limited Release. Bottles & Draft
Tasting Notes: Cherry | Tart | Red Berry Fruit
ABV: 7.0%
Category: Belgian-Inspired / Barrel-Aged
Availability: Limited Release. Bottles & Draft
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7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
510ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, crimson colour with average to huge, frothy, diminishing, barely lacing, minimally pink-ish, white head. Mellow fruity aroma, notes of cherry, sweet cherry, a touch of red berries, weak woody and mildly funky overtones, rather neutral, pale malty background. Taste is mildly tart, fruity and slightly woody, notes of cherry, hints of red berries, rhubarb, some fruit acid, lactic acid, a touch of citric acid, pale and minimally wheaty malty basis with some residual sweetness, oaky and mildly funky overtones; a minimally herbal touch in the finish.
Oily-watery texture, smooth and soft, minimally greasy, simultaneously slightly dry and astringent palate, medium, prickly carbonation.
Very clean, focussed, well balanced - good.
Oily-watery texture, smooth and soft, minimally greasy, simultaneously slightly dry and astringent palate, medium, prickly carbonation.
Very clean, focussed, well balanced - good.
Tried
from Bottle
from Addicted2Craftbeer
on 21 Jun 2026
at 18:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours clear reddish-amber with an off-white head. Tart cherry, funk, oak. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Hollingshead Deli
on 08 Apr 2026
at 16:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle in Sebastopol. Very pretty bright red with a low pink head. Dry funky cherry lactic leather grapefruit
A bit simple and somewhat too dry. Interesting though.
A bit simple and somewhat too dry. Interesting though.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2025
at 18:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from 500mL bottle (pkg 04/04/24). Lightly hazed amber orange with small white head. Underlying soft cherry, feint mild oak foeder, pretty soft and almost timid, but balanced, okay.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2024
at 03:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml @ Ryan's shared with Brian (thx for the beer, man!) and Phill. Packaged on 04-04-2024. Appearance: a bit hazy copper with a white head. Aroma: some funk and cherries, a bit of oak and sweetness. Taste: along the same lines, a bit tart and tannic, cherries. Overall: good one.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2024
at 03:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Amber and hazy, balsamic, woody aroma. Tart, cherry, woody, just a slight balsamic, it'�s quite well-balanced, dialled in.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2023
at 05:00
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at The Pine Box, pours a cloudy murky amber orange with a small beige head. Aroma reveals lots of peppery funk, tart cherries, bugs, and some rustic saison yeast. Flavour is funky, tart, buggy and fruity, with lots of bright tart cherries, plenty of bugs, moderate funk, and some black peppery notes. Really expertly constructed here. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Oct 2023
at 05:35
9.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
On tap @Bottlecraft Little Italy. Frothy, mostly clear, light maraschino cherry color. Bitters, copper, cherry skin, orange. Taste is dry earth followed by a huge & delicious sour cherry skin presence. A little lime & rose water, but it's all about the cherries. It really is quite intense, aromatic, dry & lovely. Strong carbonation works just fine here. Great.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Dec 2022
at 02:32
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours bright ruby-tinged mahogany into a snifter. White head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Cherry and funk aromas. Thick with charms cherry big pop and funky earth upfront turning to dry oak in the medium length finish.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2022
at 23:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Rating number 6,100. 510 ml bottle from their Windsor, CA brewery on a visit there last August. Bottled on 7/30/2021. Hazy amber orange pour. Frothy beige head. Funky, woody, cherry aroma. Tart, bittersweet cherry flavor upfront. Some woodiness . Mildly funky with some sherry-like notes on the backend. Brief, subtle bitter finish. Easy drinking as sours go.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2022
at 03:43