Havnesæson
Mikkeller ApS

Foggy dark amber to light brown with a very tall, lumpy white meringue head.

Way brighter than I was expecting, lemony passion fruit and green apple meet a little dusty, walnutty oak with straw and a hint of barnyard before coming back to awakening apricot and nectarine.

An airy froth settles to a fine fizz before a semi-dry finish.

oak fermented saison here, or as they call it on the label, danish shipyard ale, remarkable liquid, blend two for us, procured at the london brewpub. the pour is stunning, crystal clear and very pale orange, fizzy like champagne with great clarity through most of the bottle, and giving rise to a high and airy white head, really pretty pour. i love the nose on this, hoppy for one, super funky, and very mature, its woody and white winey, but its also herbal and earthy, hints of clean lemon and wet oak, both bacteria and brett together, and fresh flowers, very bright and springy and alive, sort of a lambic note to the ferment, but its unique to itself, well, and i guess to some of the other baghaven wild beers we got to drink, they seem to all have a similar wild identity, various stages of maturity sure, but similar balance. the flavor of this is also incredible, although its the nose that strikes my wife and i the hardest. dried herbs, bursting citrus, quite a lot of lactic tang, heavy wood in a delicate beer still, and some really rustic farmy saison character too, esters and brett and wet animal. i love that its on a multigrain base, its subtle and still dry and clean, but there are little pops of terroir in the malt, of spiciness, of minerals, of organic late summer agricultural goodness, of complex cereals, nice build here. the hops and the effervescence make it seem fresh even though its obviously long aged and quite mature, the hops are a bit bitter too which is nice, and its positively bone dry. this really warms up well, and is dynamic from first sniff to last drop, as well refined and unique as something like this possibly can be, and everything i was hoping for as i get into these baghaven beers. world class, no denying!