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Rite Of Spring
Enlightenment Ales
- From:
- Enlightenment Ales
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Saison
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.06 | pDev: 11.08%
- Reviews:
- 10
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 23, 2019
- Added:
- Apr 06, 2013
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 9
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.4/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.4/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Finally got to add this review to the site, and happy to do so, this was a good one from a great brewery. Like much of their work, you can tell a lot of thought and care crafting went into this beer. The rustic saison indeed has country flavors, barnyard funk, hay, flower, but there is nice orange zest, lemon, honey, earthy spice, toasty malt, and some finishing wild wheat and yeast. Smell is more focused on the country and wild elements, where taste opens up more. Feel is funky and a bit off balance given a heavier weight and chewy nature, but it works for me.
Jan 23, 2019Reviewed by Sheppard from Massachusetts
4.15/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours an orange-ish hue, off white head. Real pillowy head. Heather-y aroma. Some sweetness from the honey. It has definitely dried out quite a bit. It tastes a bit like a spring meadow smells. A very good saison by Ben and Enlightenment, but certainly not his best either.
Jul 22, 2016Reviewed by hreb from Washington
4.25/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
750mL standard capped bottle served in a plain stange glass. Beer pours pale yellowish in color, though very cloudy, of course, topped with an ample white head. Aroma is sweet: floral, hay. This promises to be yeasty but very easy to drink. As the saison enters my mouth for the first time I notice the fine, intense carbonation, thin mouthfeel, and then a rush of grassy grains and off-sweet honey. This is honesty exactly what I want a saison to taste like. Rustic and unfiltered, but not sour, not astringent, and quite refined, actually. The touch of honey without adjunct sweetness makes this feel really indulgent. Wild yet tempered yeast flavor, orange, lemongrass, and unmalted wheat.
Enlightenment Ales No 4 Batch #4.
Jul 23, 2015Enlightenment Ales No 4 Batch #4.
Rated by kscaldef from Oregon
2/5 rDev -50.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2/5 rDev -50.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Just a mouthful of soapy brett.
Mar 01, 2015
Rite Of Spring from Enlightenment Ales
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
75 ratings
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