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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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
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Thank you Chris for sharing the bottle - Dark golden with reddih tints and a white head - Tart cherry aroma with wood - Malt body with a good tart cherry flavour with some wood as well - The tart cherry flavour goes into the finish - This was good
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2022
at 19:29