Offbeat sour saison peculiarity aged on oak with spruce tips (!) utilizes mixed culture brettanomyces yeast funk to add ammonia strength to dry lemon-limed parch, champagne sparkle and ambitious herbal spiced foraging underscored by acidulated wheat. Minty spruce tips amplify zesty lemony white wining as capacious pink peppercorn, fern, thyme, fennel, tarragon, dill, cardamom and mustard seed illusions penetrate musky mineralized rusticity.
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CASEY LIKE MINDS FARMHOUSE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, oak-aged sour saison (a foraged farmhouse ale) brings vinous white wine esters and tart lime splurge to sourly sweet raspberry adjunct. Lollipop-like raspberry sway picks up Sauvignon Blanc nip with musky tannic leathering.
FOREST & MAIN SOLAIRE SAISON
On tap at Ambulance, brettanomyces-bound foraged yeast culture invites earthen truffle and malted spelt dryness to mildly acidic lemon liming, tannic white wine esters, bergamot cologne musk and mild green apple bittering given salty iodine alkalinity.
EQUILIBRIUM KEEPING MEMORIES SOLERA FOEDER FARMHOUSE ALE
Dry straw cleared foeder-aged farmhouse ale plies oaken vanilla tannins to lime-juiced lemon zesting, vinous white-wined green grape esters and tart green apple scurry secured by modest brettanomyces-like acidity.
OXBOW SUN SUN FARMHOUSE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, mildly acidic mixed fermentation farmhouse ale lets clementine juicing get aged by bitter and sweet orange peel, grapefruit peel and lemon peel, gaining pinot grigio wining, leathery green grape tannins and sour lemon pucker.
CASEY GHOST NOTE BLACKBERRY
On tap at Ambulance, vinous lemony blackberry tartness lets oaken white wine esters and straw hay leathering soak up dry hulled spelt graining. Highly acidic sour blackberry continuance will please sour ale lovers but prohibit less profound (or intense) thirsts.
BLACK POND MACHU PICCHU JALAPENO SAISON
Green jalapeno chili peppering intensively heats up moderate-bodied, yellow cleared, flat headed sour saison. Lemony acidity and green grape vinegaring add bitter edge above leathery barnyard acridity.
KENT FALLS WAGGLE OAK-AGED FARMHOUSE ALE WITH HONEY
On tap at Jealous Monk, sour wildflower-honeyed lemon liming gains mildly acidic white wine tannins and slight ammonia pungency above light rustic-grained pilsner malting.
JESTER KING SNORKEL
On tap at Ambulance, sour lactobacillus yeast brings gose-inspired alderwood-smoked sea salting to oyster mushroom umami mossing and truffle-like earthiness guarding lemon-limed yellow grapefruit bittering of arid hybridized farmhouse ale enjoyed more by those with a taste for citric-laced oceanic salinity.
GRIMM CUBE CUVEE #3 SAISON DE COUPAGE
On tap at Ambulance, curious mixed culture saison combines brown sour ale and golden sour ale for a tannic Flemish Red hybrid. Bubbly champagned-licked lemon liming gains fizzy white wining, oaken cherry tartness and dry peppercorn spicing over barnyard-dried herbage. Vinous lactobacillus yeast provides dry wined acidity for soured wild ale.
DROWNED LANDS TILTH SAUVIGNON BLANC SAISON
On tap at Ambulance, dry mixed culture Sauvignon Blanc-derived farmhouse ale aged in oak foeders retains leathery green grape esters. Lightly acidic white wining seeps into limey green apple, white peach, passionfruit and pomegranate souring.
OXBOW SAISON ROSE
Delicately vinous grape-skinned rosé resolve sways stainless-aged mixed culture farmhouse ale as ancillary pinot noir grape mustiness and pickled lime salting settle above musky compost soiling. At the puckered finish, green grape esters allow hard-candied cherry, strawberry and raspberry sourness as well as a wispy floral aspect to burgeon.