Aoûtien
The Bruery

 

750 mL bottle (2024) into a tulip. Pours a hazy pale straw with a monster white head.

Aroma is funky and grainy, more floral as it warms, but lacks distinctness or clarity. Pale bready malt and a vaguely floral quality.

Taste is likewise floral and bready, almost tea-like. I want to say jasmine or hibiscus but I wouldn’t really know what I was talking about. Gently bitter Old World hops.

Mouthfeel is medium to full body with a satisfying finish.

Overall an enjoyable saison that kind of grows on you.

Aoûtien pours a slightly hazy, golden color with a huge, long-lasting, frothy, and lacing head. The aroma has notes of spice and earth. The flavor is spicy, with earth notes and floral, and finishes slightly bitter. Good feel. Overall, it is a very nice, no-frills saison that has a little more bitterness.

 

a gorgeous and interesting clean saison, i think all done in stainless, mellow but bright, hearty but light, and subtly complex on the ferment, unfamiliar even on the yeast profile, wondering if they have multiple pitches working together or if they got their hands on something uncommon and old worldy, but its beautiful in this close to clear golden gem. well over an inch of high rising white foam from the tap, permanent on top of this, lots of little bubbles racing, looks polished and upbeat. lots going on here, a nice grain foundation, clean white wheat and some faintly bready barley i would guess, a light honey thing to it, slightly warm in a baked way, medium bodied and off dry but kind of long and smooth too. its the yeast though that does it for me here, rustic but clean, funky but not at all bretty to me, notes of dried apricot, hay, multigrain cereal, rubber, poached pear, white wine or even sauternes, lemon starburst, clover, white tea, green gooseberry, and melon rind. really layered and good, neat ester complexion but without that white pepper or coriander thing that usually pops up from these strains. serious complexity as it warms too, gummy candy, brine, and dehydrated mango all pop in, juicy for a second even kind of tropical. drier at the end but still holding some grain richness, effervescent carbonation is the ideal for this, really lively and excited feeling which makes it almost refreshing, cool in a beer this dynamic. flavorful, crushable, right on for late summer. loved this one and hope for more like it at the idaho taproom, not that im not loving all the barrel aged enormity, but this was a wonderful and needed change of pace, super solid.