Funkiest Beers...

Rayon Vert is great.

 

I had this bottle of Fantome Noel over the summer (not sure of the vintage, though I suspect it was atleast a few years old) that had a very strange funk to it. I was getting notes off of it that were not unlike what you might get in a good, funky cheese. I would not call it off-putting, but definitely one of the stranger, funkier brews that I've had.

 

Though they seem to be impossible to find nowadays, the De Proef Flemish Primitive series were all intensely funky (and not so much sour). I think it was the Pug Nun that had a distinct blue cheese aroma.

 

Really? I thought they had (Premium in particular) the most pronounced brett-peppery character I'd ever encountered. Clean, yes, but absurdly bretty in that cheese-rind-rolled-in-black-pepper kind of way.

 

Alpine Chez Monieux smells like an enticing mixture of vomit, dirty feet, and blue cheese.

 

The Sahalie from Ale Apothecary is one of the funkiest things I've ever had. Once you get past the initial aroma of "baby diaper" wafting out of the bottle it takes your taste buds on an adventure from light, sweet malt to herbal/floral earthiness, and then finishes dry and tart with a lemony ending. Bizarre, yet delicious.

Second behind that would probably be a bottle of Fan tome Bris BonBon that had been aging for 3-4 years. It made my tongue feel funny like drinking kava kava.

 

Crooked Stave Bourbon Sentience. Almost no carbonation and about as deliciously funky and sour as you can get...

 

Anything from Hanssens will be super funky - they make some very brett-heavy lambics.

 

I agree with this. I've never had anything as potentially offensive that in concert works so wonderfully. That brewery is really hot on my radar.

 

I've heard Hommage is quite funky. Decade+ old Cantillon is also a funk bomb more often than not.

 

Mikkeller Funk-e^* is pretty damn funky.

 

Fantome Saison. I also find 3F Kriek to be to be pretty damn funky in the nose...at least more so than the Gueuze, Golden Blend, and Schaerbeekse Kriek. Those are the two beers that just popped in my head immediately.

 

Bitter Monk smelled and tasted like a piss soaked bum on a NYC subway circa 1985 - in a good way, of course.

 

Saint Somewhere Brewery

 

How carbonated was that? I've never held onto Rayon Vert for more than a few months, but it's always a challenge to get it in the glass.

 

I got a bad 4 pack last summer, also in NC. Worth trying again.

 

An old bottle of Lambik oud Beersel. When I opened this one in Brugge the smell made everyone in the bar turn and have a look.

 

Held up pretty nicely

 

Mikkeller/To Ol's Ov-ral was awesome and wicked funky