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.
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.
Wait, if the beer is great, then the name couldn’t be pretentious!
Maybe it’s pretending to be a bad beer? 
I agree, really enjoy this beer.
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.
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!
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. ;D
Sucks, the one I had a couple years ago tasted like vomit. Guess ill have to give it another shot.
There was a sign on one of the vats that said, “BAD BELOW HIS LINE.” Maybe you had some of that.
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.
That beer inspired my Citra fresh-hopped pale sour. Awesome combo. Not sure why more sours aren’t dry hopped.
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.
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…
I had trouble downing my first taste of this several years ago.
I brought a 20 ozer and it was tasted today…it is sour but
my thinking is Meh!..had better had worse…too spendy
for the result.
Sounds exactly like my experience. I do have a bottle at home but I expect it will be my last purchase. It was good value at $8-10 but not so much at $16 even if it is among the cheaper American sours.