Dear Jon Letter
Sante Adairius Rustic Ales
- From:
- Sante Adairius Rustic Ales
- California, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.3 | pDev: 3.95%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 27, 2022
- Added:
- Apr 21, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Dear Jon Letter” is a tribute to our head brewer, Jon Drinnan, on his final day here with us at SARA. Beginning as our “Cask 200”, Solera-style Saison (its age nearly matching Jon’s seven year tenure) the beer was then transferred to both @venusspirits Agave barrels and @frederiksdalcherrywine barrels and later blended. The result is a complex and special offering that speaks to Jon’s unique maturation and talent.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.28/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Batch 1 (released on 3/16/2020); consumed on 6/26/2022
Pours a crystal-clear, deep honey-orange body capped with just over a finger of choppy, fluffy, off-white foam; decent head retention yields a few spotty islands of cap, a sudsy, frothy collar, and a chunky tapestry of webby lacing drawn along the walls of the glass.
Aroma highlights a clean lacto-funk with a steady, underlying minerality upfront; shades of green strawberry and guava peel find pillowy black cherry sweetness intertwined in ripe, vinous white wine character dominating over time amidst a subliminally pastoral subtext.
Taste sees dried hay progress to subtle barnyard cut with a firmly contrasting juicy white wine transition; musty aloe grazes an agave slick over the mid-palate, bringing wisps of herbal vanilla, cherry esters on the back end as an oaky dryness finishes.
Mouthfeel shows a lighter body and a moderate-high carbonation, with slick textures building to a refreshingly tart, minimally acidic sheen; oaky grit prickles the back end, though a wet character cuts through an otherwise clean, bright finish as a delayed crispness is quietly refined.
Pleasing subtlety allows a steady funk to coat firmly earthy wine notes, washing the wispy, inherent cherry foundation in rustic oak and choppy lacto-zest; understatement rules as funk is eased and absorbed through the myriad barrel interplay calmly flowing across the profile.
Jun 27, 2022Pours a crystal-clear, deep honey-orange body capped with just over a finger of choppy, fluffy, off-white foam; decent head retention yields a few spotty islands of cap, a sudsy, frothy collar, and a chunky tapestry of webby lacing drawn along the walls of the glass.
Aroma highlights a clean lacto-funk with a steady, underlying minerality upfront; shades of green strawberry and guava peel find pillowy black cherry sweetness intertwined in ripe, vinous white wine character dominating over time amidst a subliminally pastoral subtext.
Taste sees dried hay progress to subtle barnyard cut with a firmly contrasting juicy white wine transition; musty aloe grazes an agave slick over the mid-palate, bringing wisps of herbal vanilla, cherry esters on the back end as an oaky dryness finishes.
Mouthfeel shows a lighter body and a moderate-high carbonation, with slick textures building to a refreshingly tart, minimally acidic sheen; oaky grit prickles the back end, though a wet character cuts through an otherwise clean, bright finish as a delayed crispness is quietly refined.
Pleasing subtlety allows a steady funk to coat firmly earthy wine notes, washing the wispy, inherent cherry foundation in rustic oak and choppy lacto-zest; understatement rules as funk is eased and absorbed through the myriad barrel interplay calmly flowing across the profile.
Reviewed by bret27 from California
4.53/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.53/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Draft from brewery.
Appearance: dark gold/amber. pretty minimal off-white head w/lacing
Smell: funk, brett, vinous.
Taste: tart, brett, funk, earthy, wood, vinous, cherry & vanilla notes.
Mouthfeel: slick and very dry. Coats mouth.
Overall: banger.
Jun 13, 2021Appearance: dark gold/amber. pretty minimal off-white head w/lacing
Smell: funk, brett, vinous.
Taste: tart, brett, funk, earthy, wood, vinous, cherry & vanilla notes.
Mouthfeel: slick and very dry. Coats mouth.
Overall: banger.
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