Me and 2 friends will be starting to try some sours as we're new to this style. Here are the beers we have and any opinions on order and/or food pairings during the tasting are appreciated. Russian river consecration, temptation, sanctification, supplication Rodenbach Cantillon iris 2009 Have ready access to new jersey distributed sours as well. Feel free to mention some easily found sours I should add.
I would definitely echo the sentiment of easing into these. Try the Temptation and Sanctification one night. Try the Consecration and Supplication the next. And so forth. Welcome to the wonderful/expensive world of sours. Cheers!
Everyone forgets Hanssens for some reason. Their Oudbeitje Lambic (strawberry) is sour, funky, and has a hint of strawberry. its awsome, but gets left out of discussion. They make some of the more sour stuff on the plant (avoid Experimental Raspberry--I made that mistake and damn).
This. I'd keep it to 3....4 max. With your list, I'd go with Rodenbach first, then 1-2 of the RRs. Personally, I'd keep the Iris for its own tasting or make it first to pick up the unique nuances.
So the Rodenbach, temptation, sanctification would be a first good night? How about having othe beers in between these? Any suggestions?
Yep, that's a good starting lineup and I'd keep it to those beers for formal tasting (maybe cap off with Supplication if you feel your palates can handle a bit more) and no beers in between, just water and crackers. All IMO of course.
I would agree but Supplication and Consecration are pretty damn mild. If he was drinking straight Gueze's I would agree but the RR's in general can be drank in volume.
it depends you have to go back to when you first got into more sour beers. When a friend and I split a consecration that was intense and we couldn't handle it. Then tried RR temptation, rodenbach grand cru, and Jolly Pumpkin Noel de Calabaza enjoyed them all. a month later had a supplication and a consecration and loved them, but not as starters. I would agree now all russian river wild ales are not as intense as other more sour/funky beers and ar easier to drink, but not for a beginner. YMMV OP: Everyone is different though still you had a good starting lineup of rodenbach, temptation, and santification. If you enjoy those I would think you would enjoy the other ones you have, but end with iris. Others to try are some jolly pumpkin ones like la roja, new Belgium lips of faith la folie, hansens minus the experimentals, and Lindemans Gueuze Cuvée René (as an intro cheap easy to find gueuze).
Rodenbach Red, Duchesse De Bourgogne. These Flanders Red's should be easy to start with. I'm still fairly new to drinking sours, and I enjoy both of these.
Personally I would get a few gentle sours for in between, stuff like 1809 Berliner-Weisse, Festina Peche, NB Tart Lychee or Le Terrior. It will keep you from completely trashing your palate.
Green Flash should have made Palate Wrecker a sour, not an IPA, with all of this sensitive tongue talk.
I like mixing a couple of styles in between..def works for keeping your palate on its toes.. maybe a sour, stout, Barly, sour, porter blah blah of course with some salty meats and cheese between
