[erockrph]

I just cracked into my first bottle of La Folie. Damn this is a good beer! It's a really clean, really sour Flanders. There is loads of cherry flavor and aroma, with just a touch of funk, There's not a lot of oak flavor, but there is enough tannin to balance out the relatively thin mouthfeel and make this incredibly drinkable, despite being a very sour brew. Just as good as Rodenbach to my tastes and almost gives Red Poppy a run for the money as my favorite sour.

[lornemagill]

la folie is awesome.  try le terrior, the name is pretentious but the beer is great.  le terrior is like la folie but dry hopped.  stay away from tranatlantique kreik, a real let down.

[mabrungard]

Wait, if the beer is great, then the name couldn't be pretentious!

[a10t2]

Wait, if the beer is great, then the name couldn't be pretentious!

Maybe it's pretending to be a bad beer?

[Pinski]

I agree, really enjoy this beer. 

[garc_mall]

La Folie is my wife's favorite beer. She buys it almost every time she sees it.

I am glad she also likes my Flanders red, which is not quite as sour, and has a bit more funk.

[AmandaK]

I have a couple of these in the secret beer cabinet. After doing the tour before GABF and drinking a fresh keg of it right next to the foudres back in October, I had to stock up.

And Le Terrior is another good one - showed that you really can dry hop a sour!

[jeffy]

La Folie is also one of my favorites.  My wife and I had a private tour by one of the bartenders a few years ago and had a sample right out of the perlick in one of the foudres (is that what they call those big old casks?).  That was one of those can't-stop-smiling days.

[majorvices]

Sucks, the one I had a couple years ago tasted like vomit. Guess ill have to give it another shot.

[jeffy]

There was a sign on one of the vats that said, "BAD BELOW HIS LINE."  Maybe you had some of that.

[reverseapachemaster]

I like La Folie but it's not my favorite sour. It's more acetic than I prefer but I've come to like it a lot more than I did the first time I drank it. Sadly, the price has gone up faster than my enjoyment of the beer. It used to sell for $6-8 for a bomber and now it sells for about twice that.

[redbeerman]

I like La Folie but it's not my favorite sour. It's more acetic than I prefer but I've come to like it a lot more than I did the first time I drank it. Sadly, the price has gone up faster than my enjoyment of the beer. It used to sell for $6-8 for a bomber and now it sells for about twice that.

It's a bit too sour for me, but I do think it is a matter of personal taste.  I don't care for my sours to be salad dressing material. .  But others seem to like them very sour. At $17 for a bomber, I'll pass.  I can get Rodenbach for half the price.

[nateo]

And Le Terrior is another good one - showed that you really can dry hop a sour!

That beer inspired my Citra fresh-hopped pale sour. Awesome combo. Not sure why more sours aren't dry hopped.

[erockrph]

It's a bit too sour for me, but I do think it is a matter of personal taste.  I don't care for my sours to be salad dressing material. .  But others seem to like them very sour.

The funny thing is, I was expecting this to be super mouth-watering sour, like doing shots of pickle juice. And yet, I was like "yeah, this is sour, but I would enjoy a beer even more sour than this".

And I don't like vinegar or pickles at all, either. I've asked to move tables at restaurants if someone is eating fish & chips with malt vinegar nearby, because I can't even handle the smell. But for some reason, the more sour the better when it comes to sour beer for me. I don't seem to make the same "balsamic vinegar" connection with Flanders Reds that so many others seem to make.

[majorvices]

Mine was sour, like the way vomit is sour when you upchuck only a little and swallow it back down. Stomach bile. zExactly what it tasted like..... OMG it was vile....