Funkiest Beers...

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by XpensiveBieros, Feb 16, 2013.

  1. XpensiveBieros Member

    Location:
    New Hampshire
    I'm interested in know some of the funkier beers you've all tried regardless of place or style. The funkier the better...hop on the Mothership!
  2. clonebrewer Member

    Location:
    Iowa
    Great Divide's Collette was pretty funky...
  3. time4lunch Member

    Location:
    New Hampshire
    Just had a botlle of crooked stave L'brett d'or dry hp version. Extremely funked out and outrageously good.
  4. Focusf111 Member

    Location:
    Vermont
    Ta'henket. I used to be a huge fan of DFH...I also remember magichat's "Over the Pills" being funky.
  5. adkieffer Member

    Location:
    Washington
    Recently had Hanssens Oude Gueuze. Super Funky and Sour!
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  6. Ri0 Member

    Location:
    Wisconsin
    Jolly Pumpkin Beers have some funk and sour to them. Not sure if you can get them as I have no idea where you are from.
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  7. hopsputin Member

    Location:
    California
    1 year old rayon vert. cracked one open the other week, all funk
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  8. mattafett Member

    Location:
    Iowa
    Drank a 2008 Boulevard Saison Brett recently. It was nice and funky!
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  9. FozzieThaBurr Member

    Agreed. I love Rayon Vert and in terms of pure funk, it's tough to beat. It's a showcase for Brett.
  10. kell50 Member

    Location:
    North Carolina
    Had GF Rayon Vert last summer.. Completely disappointed with it. Probably wouldn't return to it again. Perhaps a bad 4 pack? Who knows.

    In terms of funk.. Just had Olde Hickory's Reedemer, which is a IIPA. Tons of funk & a damn tasty beer!
  11. OneDropSoup Member

    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Girardin 1882 is my favorite gueuze because the funk is so much more prominent than the sour, from what I remember (it's been a few years, sadly).
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  12. loafinaround Member

    Location:
    New York
    madame rose? then again, that was the only sour beer I've had (not a fan of the genre). Seemed funky to me (the uninitiated)
  13. mingo1968 Member

    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Round Guys Berliner-Weisster Weisster-Berliner
  14. fmccormi Member

    Location:
    New York
    Stillwater Table Beer
    Stillwater Premium
    Evil Twin Femme Fatale

    I love funk and all of those were either pushing it or at times distastefully funky. Table Beer was definitely the best of those.

    Edit: funky in a different direction, Funky Buddha's Passionfruit Berliner Weisse was the cheesiest funk I've ever tasted. Tasty, but very cheesy. Ommegang Ommegeddon and 1.5yr Matilda are probably my favorite high-funktality beers I've had. And Rayon Vert is a beautiful thing, at all stages . . .
  15. SFACRKnight Member

    Location:
    Colorado
    Funkwerks brett dream, crooked stave wwbi was pretty funky last I tried as well.
  16. donteatpoop Member

    Location:
    Ohio
    As mentioned above, anything from Jolly Pumpkin is funky... The wine barrel aging adds a strange twist on the beers. Great contrast. Interesting experience each time.

    Also, Goose Island's Matilda always seemed rather funky to me.
  17. BottleCaps80 Member

    Location:
    Iowa
    iO Saison - Jolly Pumpkin
    Jack D'Or - Pretty Things
    Lower Dens (Sensory Series Vol. 1) - Stillwater

    When I think funk, I think barnyard/earthy flavors, not to be confused with sours. I love both funk and sour though!
  18. SteelersX Member

    Location:
    New York
    Prometheus
  19. OneDropSoup Member

    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Table Beer had no apparent character to me other than being booooone dry. It was like seltzer. I don't think of Premium as being especially "funky" to me, either. Seems to me the aim of these two is being clean. Can't speak to Femme Fatale.
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  20. BottleCaps80 Member

    Location:
    Iowa
    I agree with your analysis of those 2 Stillwater beers. I don't really get funk from those either.
  21. flayedandskinned Member

    Location:
    California
    Rayon Vert is great.
  22. BlackElixir Member

    Location:
    Wisconsin
    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.
  23. sjccmd Member

    Location:
    Minnesota
    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.
  24. fmccormi Member

    Location:
    New York
    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.
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  25. UCLABrewN84 Member

    Location:
    California
    Alpine Chez Monieux smells like an enticing mixture of vomit, dirty feet, and blue cheese.
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  26. maltmaster420 Member

    Location:
    Oregon
    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.
  27. Bonko_the_sane Member

    Location:
    North Carolina
    Crooked Stave Bourbon Sentience. Almost no carbonation and about as deliciously funky and sour as you can get...
  28. Etan Member

    Location:
    Illinois
    Anything from Hanssens will be super funky - they make some very brett-heavy lambics.
  29. harrymel Member

    Location:
    Washington
    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.
  30. CityofBals Member

    Location:
    Illinois
    I've heard Hommage is quite funky. Decade+ old Cantillon is also a funk bomb more often than not.
  31. Lutter Member

    Location:
    Texas
    Mikkeller Funk-e^* is pretty damn funky.
  32. DovaliHops Member

    Location:
    California
    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.
  33. huysmans Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    Bitter Monk smelled and tasted like a piss soaked bum on a NYC subway circa 1985 - in a good way, of course.
  34. thecraftculture Member

    Location:
    Florida
    Saint Somewhere Brewery
  35. TNGabe Member

    Location:
    Tennessee
    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.
  36. TNGabe Member

    Location:
    Tennessee
    I got a bad 4 pack last summer, also in NC. Worth trying again.
  37. randylangford Member

    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    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.
  38. hopsputin Member

    Location:
    California
    Held up pretty nicely
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  39. amp138 Member

    Location:
    Rhode Island
    Mikkeller/To Ol's Ov-ral was awesome and wicked funky
  40. XpensiveBieros Member

    Location:
    New Hampshire
    I'm in NH clost to the MA border! Thanks!

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