Russian River Beatification (Batch 001)
Blonde Ale aged in New Belgium La Folie barrels for 23 months. Batch 001 is softer on the palate than Batch 001 - PH1. The PH1 batch was aged in one of New Belgium's favorite barrels. Refermented in the bottle.
4.2
226 reviews
Santa Rosa, United States
Community reviews
Batch PH1.
The pour is much like any other batch of Beatification: pale golden with a large white head. Smell is intensely acidic and lactic. Lots of lemon and lemon juice type aromas. A musty funk of oak and grass, sort of similar to actual gueuze. The flavor is amazingly sour, one of the sourest American sours out there. Great lemon/lactic acidity, which is very bright and clean. Grass, straw, and oak along with a touch of earthy funk round out the flavor. Medium in body with a very lively carbonation and dry, puckering finish.
Shared at Grape & Gourmet’s 5th Anniversary by The Beer God (Thanks Mike!). Generously we were treated to both a bottle of Batch 001 and Batch PH1. Both poured pale yellow with a fizzy white head. Sour, funky aroma which was more noticeable in the regular Batch 001 than the PH1. While both were no doubt sour the PH1 seemed to pick up more of the oak and was an easier beer to drink. Beautiful integration of sour and funk. You would be hard pressed to find many sour beers that were better than Beatification.
Had this as ph1 in 2007 at OTown Throwdown III. Pours a nice golden light copper with a thin fizzy head and moderate carbonation. Aroma is tangy lemon zest, light aceto, vinegar hints, woody, oaky, big funk, brett, with a bright citrus tartness. Flavor is funk, more glacial straight acetic acid, slight off malt vinegar, apple cider twang, lemon-lime hints, fruity esters, horsey and leather with more oak and wood with hints of solvent an isovaleric. Has a spritzy lively lactic and acetic acid finish in the end without being bitter or too astringent. Really nice at the time- I wonder if the aceto continued to grow in this beer? I
PH1 bottle thanks to drewbeerme! Sampled next to batch 2 and 3. Pours a very clear yellow golden a small fizzy white head. Aroma of light vanilla, delicate balanced acidity, touch nutty, a nice sour blonde. Flavor is at first very white winey, champagne, clean, medium strong clean sourness, very tolerable but still with a nice kick, light green grape, brett aftertaste, tart white wine. Spritzy clean fizzy carbonation, perfect.
A version that is a blend between a 8 month and a 15 months barrel aging. The pour is straw yellow with no transparency and with a fine white head that has an almost milky white edge. A classic sour nose with citric and young green grapes topped with lactic hints. The palate and mouthfeel seems to be a bit thin and turns in to a finish that most of all can be described as sour and lactic. Not that interesting actually with a sourness that are pretty unnuanced and streight forward....still good beer
Dry as a desert and as sour as my ex.. a fantastic example of the style. Brought back as a random pick. I was the only one who loves Sour ale’s... you have to love them.. but you will be richly rewarded. Hoppy love.
Ph1 beatification Thanks Andrew. Delicate Herbal earthiness citrus touch of hay Fizzy carbonation. Lots of citrus grapes light sweetness vinegar balanced. Sugars acids and tartness balaced well. 8/4/9/5/16 4.1
375ml bottle from davecooks, barrel PH1, huge thanks Dave. Rating #203. Pours orangish/gold and a little hazy (drinking the bottom of the bottle).Sour aroma and a bit funky and fruity. Light tart flavor and a little more fruitiness, very tasty and surprisingly drinkable. (1137)
Bottle at woodshop 5.0 Not sure who poured it. Aroma is fruity and tart. Woody and light oxidation...but not in a bad way. Flavor is sour, but not mouth puckering. Fruit is still there, oak is still showing. Awesome beer to try.
Extreme Beer Fest 2010. Pours a pale yellow and almost clear. The aroma consists of a huge brett smell, grass and funk. This beer is extremely dry and as sour as they come. Quite possibly the best beer I have tasted to date.
Shared by hophead22. Very tangy, tart, funky yet balanced. Super sour and delicious.
PH-1 shared by hophead22...pours light gold with a thin white head...Very tart and funky aroma..Flavor is awesome.. extreamly sour and tart, lots of funk...Crazy
Hophead22s tasting. Pours a hazy orange with a white film. Aroma is tart fruits and a bit of funk. Flavor is a sharp bitterness with some funk and a fruity spiciness. Palate is light and carbonation is low.
Bottle (Batch 001- PH1) from Amorphosis. Pours clear golden with thin white head. strong tart and funky aroma almost gueuze like. Lots of apple and lemon sourness with oaky notes. Open on new year and that was quite a treat! Thnaks Peter!.
Bottle, April 2008 tasting. Thanks to Phil L for providing. Rather muddy yellow appearance (I probably got my sample from near the end of the bottle). Not sure whether this was the standard or PH1 batch. Good and sour. Moderately funky aroma. Quite citric tart acidity on the palate. More lambic than Flemish sour in feel, probably because the underlying beer is a blonde not a bruin. Faint echoes of Cantillon here. Very good.
PH1 Bottle, thanks Nathan for opening this rare gem and sharing with me!
Warm gold, noisy off-white head. Generous funk that starts well before the glass makes it up to my nose. Leathery tobacco barn chock full of crab apples and a briny seaweed bite. Loads of dry lemony sourness, but for all the volume of sour, the quality of it is gentle and inviting. Pepper, salt, hay, dry weathered wool. So much happy goodness in a glass. Some sour beers (even ones I end up liking) require such a serious face to appreciate: the pleasures are shaken from a wrath-bearing tree. Not so here. Everything is just...beautiful.
PH1. 375-milliliter into wine balloon. Pours a cloudy opaque orange with huge foam at first, then settling to a light layer of film. Aroma is indeed of sour fruit, self-fermented old fruit. Flavor is of the same spoiled fruit but with a lot of black olive. No doubt about it: Black olives, maybe baked on a pizza. It’s really an oddity this one, but not unpleasant. Nice mouthfeel, full yet spritzy. Overall, very good.
(Sample Date: 3/14/2009 Source:Other) Batch 001-PH1. Blonde Ale aged in oak barrels. Slight sourness and graininess with a light fruit in the aroma. Cloudy light brown muddy water appearance. Quite sour and earthy with some caramel and oak like wine notes.
Big thanks to Numenor for bringing this to the Richmond Gathering. PH1 bottling. Hazy yellow. Great horseblanket aroma, with lemon, cheddar, and pixie stick aroma. Flavor starts the same, and then finishes just a bit short with a faint honey note. Interesting stuff, and a great sniffer.
Bottle courtesy of Numenor on 03/14/2009. Batch 001-PH1. Somewhat hazy orange body with a small frothy off-white head. Huge sour aroma with vanilla, fruit, and some funk. Huge sour flavor, some faint vanilla with more light fruit, hints of oak and a touch of funk. Light body with moderately high carbonation.
Brought by numenor to a ratebeer gathering at maniacs place in richmond, va. This is a newer style for me, but I have to say fantastic beer, too bad it is gone, but maybe the new one will be just as good? Anyway, A lot of tartness up front on this one, nice and sour a bit of apple as well. Goes down easily but not before you have to appreciate the flavors that are coming from a beer with such a low abv. Interesting style, also a bit of citrus in there as well. Just enjoyed how different this beer was from everything else I have ever had basically.
Batch 1 (thanks Guy) pours daffodil yellow and effervescent.
Aroma is tart, body very lean and prickly. Rich grapefruit dominates crisp flavors.
Beautiful gold body. Very tart aroma very citrus. Wonderfully sour with smooth ending.
375 mL bottle courtesy of Numenor. Thanks! Rating #1500. Batch 001-PH1. Pours a lemon orange color with a medium head. Poor head retention and lacing. Fantastically tart aroma with funk, citrus, earthy, herbal. Taste is almost bitterly tart with notes of green apple, citrus (pithy grapefruit), tannins. Slight earthy and herbal notes. Soft carbonation. Medium bodied.
Batch 001-PH1 Nice golden body with a thin white head. Nice sour aroma with a good fruit kick. Taste is very sour with light oaking. Nice citrus ending. Awesome stuff.
I had previously sampled Beatification at the RR Brewpub in October of 2005, straight from the barrel and again in January of this year at a RR dinner at Monk’s Cafe but this is my first review of this fine beer from the bottle.
Batch 001 (PH1) is waiting patiently in my cellar.
The beer poured a nice brilliant hazy straw color with a bit of a white head that didn’t last very long and gave way to a good ring around the glass and strong lacing. The aroma of the beer definitely had the characterstics of where it was aged, in an oak barrel, but it was not overpowering. Notes of cherry and other fruit. The taste was very impressive, tart and acidic and a bit of funkiness but not overbearing, just perfectly complimenting each other. The taste lingered in the mouth for awhile and did have a bit of a dry champagne burn to it which I like in a beer. There is a lingering sweetness to this beer that is very pleasant and I just can’t get enough of.
It would be interesting to taste this along side Redemption which is where this started and also with the PH1 to test the subtle differences in each. Vinnie and Natalie hit this one out of the park as they do with so many of their beers. A real winner, too bad there is not much of this out there.
Wowo, thanks for sharing this rare gem Yaniv! Lightly hazed light orange with a thin film for a head. Subtle herbal sour nose. Light lemon to citrus, with perhaps Brett dominant over the bacteria. Light body with average carbonation. Astringent! Light wheaty sort of esters and grain flavors. Very oaky with something distinctly peppery. Lemongrass perhaps? Rather different than my memories of batch 2, and not in a bad way!
Hazy orange with medium off white heas lasting shortly. Sour aroma with with woody, barnyard and grapefruit notes. Sour flavour with wood, barnyard, leather brett and grapefruit. Excellent.
37.5 cL bottle, courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours hazy orange with a fizzy off-white head. Solid citric to acidic aroma. Barnyard and horseblanket too. Citric, orange fruity, apple and solid fruity flavoured. Lingering and smooth and fruity flavoured, citric and orange fruity with a nice wooden note following. Dry and wooden dryness into a lasting fruity and dry fruity finish. Lasting fruity impression, quite fresh. Biting acidic finish, quite tart.
thanks a bunch kimjohansen, for sharing. appears orange with grading color , head that quickly disappears.
very nice grapefruity aroma, notes of citurs, acid, flavor is a very nice indeed balance between sour and acid. refreshing, and very well tasting. slightly reminds me of those white candy with acid and sour powder contents.