Foraged yeast adds clean sheen to complex farmhouse ale. Spiced lemon curd nestles modest mulling spices plus cardamom-seeded rosemary and thyme herbage over dry spelt graining.
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MUCKRAKER DOWN THE SHORE EVERYTHING’S ALRIGHT DRY-HOPPED GRISETTE
Sea-salted grisette (a brinier saison) stays soft and fuzzy on the tongue as spritzy lemony grapefruit bittering picks up perfumed cologne-wafted florality (chrysanthemum-dandelion-lavender) and mild herbage in mildly acidic setting.
AUTODIDACT LEAF SAISON
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry earthen barnyard rusticity raids scurried lemon sourness as mild cellared fungi mossing spreads beneath.
JESTER KING BUG FARM FARMHOUSE ALE
On tap at Taphouse 15, submissive Texas watermelon rind earthiness, moderate rosemary-lavender sashay and mild minting prickled by salty lemon-soured lime zesting.
AUTODIDACT WASH FARMHOUSE GRISETTE
On tap at Taphouse 15, easygoing aluminum cleared grisette (with low alcohol) plies delicate champagne wining to lemon seltzer spritz and snippy salted spicing over pale wheat bottom, picking up light barnyard leathering.
OXBOW FARMHOUSE PALE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, rustic saison with acrid leathery barnyard musk and spry lemon-rotted green grape champagning picks up dried plantain tartness over light sourdough base.
JESTER KING LE PETIT PRINCE FARMHOUSE TABLE BEER
On tap at Taphouse 15, dry lo-cal grisette (a dryer farmhouse ale) lets spritzy lemon limed souring settle above herbal-tinged spelt graining and barnyard straw acridity in simple satisfying scheme.
SEVEN TRIBESMEN / LONG LOT FARM TRIBE SAISON
Nicely peculiar smoked saison (collaboration with Long Lot) plies pickled jalapeno, habanero and poblano peppering to stylish fruit-spiced cultured yeast esters. Mild pepper burn slowly sears thru lemon-sliced cucumber watering and acrid barnyard rusticity.
SINGLECUT THE PRODUCER FARMHOUSE ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, pinkish ruby-glowed saison plies candied Sweet-Tart sourness to leathery farmhouse yeast and hay-like barnyard acridity. Puckered strawberry, pomegranate and green apple souring and lemony orange licks pick up latent peppery snip.
EVIL GENIUS SANTA!! I KNOW HIM! FESTIVE SAISON
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, wintry Christmas fruitcake spicing guards expressive saison. Wildflower-honeyed rose hips, chamomile and black currant adjuncts, draped by dark Belgian candi syrup, gain dried fig-cherry-pineapple fruiting and lemony banana glaze to contrast marginal phenolic black-peppered cellar musk.
ASHTON COCOS FARMHOUSE ALE
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, cleanly dry clear golden saison takes raw-honeyed fruit spicing to celery-watered fennel herbage and leathery barnyard acridity over dainty pilsner malts in slightly offbeat stylistic manner.
GHOST HAWK SAISON D’AUTOMNE
On tap at Kitchen & Beer Bar, complex atypical farmhouse ale loads black-peppered herbal perfuming to lemony saffron minting and earthen floral musk. Basil, sage, catnip, spearmint and sassafras illusions waver for slightly enigmatic off-centered moderation. On tap at Plank Pizza ’24, foraged local ingredients increased light herbal fungi musk, dark floral perfuming and mild peppercorn spell as lemon balm, champagne grape and black tea illusions join the sage-catnipped sassafras minting.
