Native Eight
Tree House Brewing Company
- From:
- Tree House Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.38 | pDev: 1.83%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 21, 2020
- Added:
- Apr 16, 2020
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Native Eight is a mixed fermentation ale brewed with pilsner malt, wheat, and unmalted spelt. A three-year slumber in French Oak resulted in a beer of incredible depth, complexity, and inimitable character. Notes of sour cherry, hay, barnyard funk, and mouth-puckering apricot.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ScaryEd from New Hampshire
4.31/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
Pours a cloudy amber gold color with a finger of creamy white head. Nice retention and a good amount of lacing. The head settles into a nice sheet.
The aroma brings a ton of apricots, pears, black cherry, and hay. There's a faint idea of funk in there with some shades of vanilla and oak thrown in.
The flavor follows the nose: Apricots and pears, followed by some tart black cherries, hay, lemon zest, and straight up funksauce. Finishes with some oak chips and subtle vanilla. Has a grainy malt presence throughout. Lots of complexity here.
The feel is medium bodied with moderately high carbonation. A bit thicker than expected from the style, and there's a shocking amount of alcohol presence here, but it's still crisp and drinkable.
Overall, this is a truly great Belgian saison. It's nicely tart, but fruity and earthy and rustic. Very complex. These kinds of beers should be a staple in Tree House's regular offerings ala Hill Farmstead.
May 25, 2020The aroma brings a ton of apricots, pears, black cherry, and hay. There's a faint idea of funk in there with some shades of vanilla and oak thrown in.
The flavor follows the nose: Apricots and pears, followed by some tart black cherries, hay, lemon zest, and straight up funksauce. Finishes with some oak chips and subtle vanilla. Has a grainy malt presence throughout. Lots of complexity here.
The feel is medium bodied with moderately high carbonation. A bit thicker than expected from the style, and there's a shocking amount of alcohol presence here, but it's still crisp and drinkable.
Overall, this is a truly great Belgian saison. It's nicely tart, but fruity and earthy and rustic. Very complex. These kinds of beers should be a staple in Tree House's regular offerings ala Hill Farmstead.
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