Polite light-bodied Belgian-styled farmhouse ale retains lemongrass aroma and pepper-spiced herbal-floral emphasis. Perky citric hops create wispy curacao orange tease saddled by gingery cayenne tingle atop raw wheat spine.
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(BLAUGIES) DARBYSTE ALE
Brewed with complimentary (instead of dominant) fig juice, vinous viscous-coppered Belgian retains fluffy white head, clumped yeast sediment, and sharp cider tartness. Pungent grapefruit-dried tangerine-peach tang compels sulky sour grape acidity and cork-y herbal pinch to soak up honeyed malt sweetness. A bit too sudsy as an after dinner drink.
FLYING DOG WILD DOG COLORADO SAISON ALE
Soft-textured bottle-conditioned pearly-headed amber-hazed saison explodes in mouth like heavily carbolic champagne. Wafting barnyard funk wavers above tart lemony grapefruit musk, faint banana-apple-apricot tuft, and white-peppered basil-thyme herbage to fizzy curacao orange cusp. Dusted citron spicing provides delicate white ale zest.
(BLAUGIES) SAISON D’EPEAUTRE ALE
(BLAUGIES) LA MONEUSE SAISON
An airtight package of extremes, peculiar rust-hued Belgian farmhouse ale brings musty fruit dankness to pungent mushroom-y earthiness with no odd offensiveness. As flooded basement waft subsides, sour chamomile tea complements honeyed banana sweetness and corky peach-apricot-grape esters for tartly rewarding obscurity.
HEAVYWEIGHT SAISON DE LA SOUER – HOPPY
(BRASSERIE DES GEANTS) SAISON VOISIN
HEAVYWEIGHT SAISON DE LA SOEUR – SPICY
BROOKLYN LOCAL 1 ALE
NORTH COAST LE MERLE SAISON BELGIAN-STYLE FARMHOUSE ALE
Wobbly saison tries to be all things to everyone but half-asses the attempt. Honeysuckle-kissed apricot-tangerine-mango-pineapple tropicalia counters sour apple-cherry tartness and white peppered cinnamon-nutmeg spicing for impressive initiation, but metallic acidity decreases herbal-floral latency ’til astringent grassy-hopped barnyard-hay-horse blanket funk damages any lemony grapefruit rind remnant. Dry vermouth finish picks up misplaced medicinal mote.
BROOKLYN SAISON
(OMMEGANG) OMMEGEDDON FUNKHOUSE ALE
Silken-spiced straw-hazed Belgian-styled Saison gains white-peppered spearmint-basil momentum and grassy barnyard hop dryness to counter floral grapefruit-pineapple-apricot tartness overriding lemon-bruised orange peel bittering. Mellow butterscotch-marshmallow creaminess sweetens ginger-clove-dabbed herbal center and earthen mineral-grained bottom.