Sauerteig Farmhouse Ale
Lighthouse Brewing Company
- From:
- Lighthouse Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 5.48%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 11, 2014
- Added:
- Mar 05, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4/5 rDev +4.4%
4/5 rDev +4.4%
Appearance- Pours a slight hazy straw colour with two fingers of bubbly white head.
Smell - yeast, banana, clove, rye malts, spicy hops, slight sourdough and hint of hay.
Taste- A powerful hit of yeast, banana and clove initially, along with the flavours of rye malts, spicy hops, sourdough bread and slight taste of hay/straw. The sourdough flavour adds a nice tanginess at the finish.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with high effervescence. Very tingly with a dry finish.
Overall - An enjoyable saison from Lighthouse. Nice touch by adding local sourdough bread into the mix. I like seeing new offerings from BC here in Cowtown. Keep 'em coming!
Sep 06, 2014Smell - yeast, banana, clove, rye malts, spicy hops, slight sourdough and hint of hay.
Taste- A powerful hit of yeast, banana and clove initially, along with the flavours of rye malts, spicy hops, sourdough bread and slight taste of hay/straw. The sourdough flavour adds a nice tanginess at the finish.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with high effervescence. Very tingly with a dry finish.
Overall - An enjoyable saison from Lighthouse. Nice touch by adding local sourdough bread into the mix. I like seeing new offerings from BC here in Cowtown. Keep 'em coming!
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.87/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.87/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle. Nice idea for an infected farmhouse ale - sourdough from a local bakery!
This beer pours a cloudy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of rather puffy, roiling, and fizzy bone-white head, which leaves little beyond a few specks of remote islet lace in spots around the glass as it quickly recedes.
It smells of sharp, edgy yeast, white wine vinegar, buttered toast made with ancient grain bread, underripe lemon zest, a wet hay funkiness, and a further bit of green apple 'fruitiness'. The taste is much more even-handed - fruity orchard notes (apple, lemon, and peach), sourdough - as if made with a heady dose of rye flour - earthy, much less tart or sour yeast than initially promised, floral honey, a bit of dank straw, and the suggestion of a booze warming that can start work as soon as you need it.
The carbonation is rather frothy, but with little accompanying bite, the body a sturdy medium weight, and way more smooth than I might have conjectured at the outset. It finishes off-dry, the varied maltiness doing well to linger, among the now muddled yeast, tart fruitiness, and funk.
A pleasant, very rustic farmhouse-style ale, the morphing yeast, off-kilter malt, and hearty fruitiness a nice surprise, as is the evolution of this offering. Egregiously sour off the top, then settling into an enjoyable quaffer, before you realize that this probably wasn't the typical post-menial toil saison of yer great, great (great?) Flemish grand papas - I'm looking at you, 14-proof alcohol!
Jun 24, 2014This beer pours a cloudy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of rather puffy, roiling, and fizzy bone-white head, which leaves little beyond a few specks of remote islet lace in spots around the glass as it quickly recedes.
It smells of sharp, edgy yeast, white wine vinegar, buttered toast made with ancient grain bread, underripe lemon zest, a wet hay funkiness, and a further bit of green apple 'fruitiness'. The taste is much more even-handed - fruity orchard notes (apple, lemon, and peach), sourdough - as if made with a heady dose of rye flour - earthy, much less tart or sour yeast than initially promised, floral honey, a bit of dank straw, and the suggestion of a booze warming that can start work as soon as you need it.
The carbonation is rather frothy, but with little accompanying bite, the body a sturdy medium weight, and way more smooth than I might have conjectured at the outset. It finishes off-dry, the varied maltiness doing well to linger, among the now muddled yeast, tart fruitiness, and funk.
A pleasant, very rustic farmhouse-style ale, the morphing yeast, off-kilter malt, and hearty fruitiness a nice surprise, as is the evolution of this offering. Egregiously sour off the top, then settling into an enjoyable quaffer, before you realize that this probably wasn't the typical post-menial toil saison of yer great, great (great?) Flemish grand papas - I'm looking at you, 14-proof alcohol!
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