Russian River Consecration

Beer No: 67
Page No: 870
Category: Specialty

This beer most certainly belongs in the "specialty" category.  It's just an epically special beer.  Sour flavors abound in this ale brewed with currants as each sip reveals more complexities and flavors.  The beer runs the gamut from oaky to citric to sweet to sour.  It truly is a wonderful beer to taste and I'm hoping to visit Russian River this summer to try their fantastic brews on tap at the source.

An almost perfect way to enter into the Summer and continue my Memorial Day festivities going strong.  Easily a top 5 beer in my books.  With the Supplication review coming soon...we might have another top 5.

My review, cross-posted at RateBeer.com:

Russian River Consecration from Russian River Brewing

Aroma: 9/10
Appearance: 4/5
Taste: 9/10
Palate: 5/5
Overall: 17/20

Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Had from 750ml bottle. Pours dark red/brown with tan head that dissipates very quickly and some slight blubbles on the edges. Aroma is very tart, sour, citric, hints of cherries, yeast, and alcohol. Taste is amazingly tart, refreshing, citric, and complex. Flavors range from oak to cherries to currants to lemons. Really a treat to have and a wonderfully complicated beer that might require some time to get used to if you’re not a fan of the sours. This sour goes above and beyond the slightly acidic and citric tastes of other "weaker" sours and really punches your tastebuds with flavor. More sour than I remember it on tap, but still an amazingly good beer.