On tap at Ambulance, mixed culture yeast souring brings puckered lemon-candied green grape tartness to the fore. Vinous grape continuance and mild citric acidity scour chaffy wheat spine.
Tag Archives: sour saison
WILD BEER SHNOODLEPIP
On tap at Ambulance, pleasantly peculiar sour saison from England gets soaked in French oak red wine barrels with rosy hibiscus flowering, pink peppercorn pep, tart tropical fruiting and mild spelt grains. Light brettanomyces yeast brings out the vinous red grape tannins. Leathery barnyard acridity increases oaken cherry-dried passionfruit, papaya, guava and gooseberry illusions at back end.
OXBOW CROSSFADE
On tap at Ambulance, wild yeast brings mild brettanomyces acidity to lemony grapefruit-spiced zing, musky herbal-teased barnyard acridity and fresh-cut grassiness. Sour citrus finish picks up tangy peach, pineapple and orange notions as well as teasing basil snips.
GRASSROOTS / ANCHORAGE / HILL FARMSTEAD ARCTIC SAISON
On tap at Ambulance, Vermont’s Grassroots Brewing collaborated with local Hill Farmstead brethren and Alaskan brewmasters to concoct hybridized brettanomyces-laden farmhouse ale. Rustic herbal overtones and musky barnyard leathering divert lemony orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple and peach tang. Cilantro-peppered basil and rosemary illusions convincingly deepen citrus tea finish.
TWO ROADS / STILLWATER GROUND LOOP SOUR SAISON
Pleasant collaborative soft-toned farmhouse ale soured by mouth-puckering lemon-juiced acidity, mellow yellow grapefruit rind bittering and moderately vinous white-wined dryness. Tart sorbet illusions add bittersweet continuance to limited edition 2017 autumnal hybrid.
OXBOW SCHWEINSHAXE
On tap at Ambulance, offbeat collaboration with Cologne’s Freigeist Brewery blends rustic farmhouse ale with beechwood-smoked rauchbier. Damp campfire setting receives sweet maple syruping to contrast smoked salami salience as well as saison-related barnyard acridity and sour lemon snip.
HUDSON VALLEY AMULET
On tap at Ambulance, unique cherry blossom wood-soaked sake yeast gains sour blueberry tartness as well as mild rosehips-hibiscus tangent to knock back salty acidity. Beneath the surface, raspy blackberry-gooseberry souring and vinous green grape niche grapple Citra-Mosaic hop plot.
HOLY MOUNTAIN WITCHFINDER SAISON
On tap at Ambulance, mildly sour brettanomyces bacteria affects salty lemon-soured entry, vinous green grape musk, polite floral-herbed Saaz-Amarillo hop astringency, pilsner-malted minerality and vegetal whim of dry-bodied farmhouse moderation.
JOLLY PUMPKIN / GIGANTIC PHUKET; IT’S NOT THAT FAR FROM LAOS
On tap at Ambulance, light brettanomyces souring and leathery oaken acridity contrast palm-sugared Jasmine ricing of hybridized lime-peeled saison. Tart white grape, pineapple and curacao orange illusions reinforce lemony lime pucker while straw, hay and raw oats dryness add parched mouthfeel.
LOGSDON PECHE ‘N BRETT FARMHOUSE ALE
On tap at Ambulance, engaging brettanomyces-aged sour saison (with hidden 10.1% ABV) loads sweet ‘n sour peach tones onto oaken bark-dried earthiness and dank barnyard cellaring. Lemony peach pit pucker gains sour edge reinforced by mildly creamed acidulated malting.
J. WAKEFIELD TONY BAG O’ DONUTS SOUR ALE WITH PASSIONFRUIT
On tap at Ambulance, fine collaboration with LIC Beer Project puts mildly acidic passionfruit sourness and brisk lemony guava-kumquat tartness ahead of dextrin-like pilsner malts. Dry herb-tinged barnyard backdrop soaks up sweet ‘n sour tropical fruiting towards the finish.
OEC VILLA DOMUS
On tap at Ambulance, dryly sour saison (aged in neutral oak barrels) utilizes black-peppered grains of paradise spicing to scour barnyard-desiccated spelt and oats graining as mild brettanomyces funk provides sufficient acidity. Carbolic lemon spritz, green apple tartness, green grape esters and wispy passionfruit snips lightly affect piquant grains of paradise juicing.
