Lustrous
Gigantic Brewing Company

RB transfer

Very underrated beer. Poured from a bomber into a tulip glass. Cloudy yellow with a rich foamy head and good lacing. Funky earthy smell and taste. Lemony and a bit sweet. Great with pizza!

I just bought and drank this Farmhouse Ale (ABV 8.00%, IBU 28), so I am not sure how retired it is. Anyway, in brief, it was a bit heavy for a farmhouse ale and a tad boozy, but other than that it is pretty good.

Look: cloudy golden almost amber hue with a very thick fluffy white head. Leaves very nice lacing. Watch out it is a gusher and builds a lot of foam.

Aroma: citrus, yeast, some funk

Taste: The taste is dough, yeast, there's some brett funk, apple, lemon, and pepper.

Feel: medium body

 

22 oz. Bomber

Pours a pretty nice yellowish color, pretty nice carbonation, with a pretty nice thick/creamy/foamy white head, which leaves some sticky lacing behind. The nose is malty, yeasty, with some spice notes. The taste is malty, yeasty, spicy, Medium body. Overall, a pretty tasty brew.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22oz bottle - number 46 in their artist-adjacent series.

This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and caked beige head, which leaves some decent defrosting windshield lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of buttered white bread, some funky and certainly phenolic yeastiness, muddled domestic citrus, and some paint thinner-esque booziness. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a touch of spicy wheatiness, still hard to choke down funky yeast notes, a mixed and matched citrus, banana, and pome fruitiness, and some gentle leafy, weedy, and slightly perfumed floral hop bitterness.

The carbonation is fairly active in its swirling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and sort of smooth, but for that yeasty, funky, and diacetyl astringency lording itself around here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt, bland fruitiness, and recently mentioned baddies all playing us out in the most awkward manner.

Overall, this comes across as one hot mess of a brew - the wrong kind of funk, buttery bullshit, an uninteresting yeastiness, and the rest, well, the rest doesn't really matter at this point, yeah? Not worth the shelf tag, I can assure you of that, and something that cries out for a revisit to the proverbial drawing board.

 

 

 

Poured into a Gulden Draak tulip. Pours a hazy, medium golden amber with laces of bubbles and a fine one finger white head with great retention and lacing. Aroma of mild grainy malt, saison yeast, a hint of funk, orange citrus. Flavor is good mixed grain farmhouse malt, saison yeast with a light touch of brett and then a very pleasant orange and orange peel citrus flavor developing that leads into a rustic malt and orange finish with appealing estery orange elements. Medium bodied with light creaminess and peppery carbonation, nice mouth feel. This is my kind of saison, with a pleasant mixed grain malt spiced with a hint of tartness and brett. The orange peel flavors are deftly handled and blend well with the malt and yeast. Might be a bit offbeat for saison traditionalists, but I really liked this a lot. I honestly don't know how Gigantic keeps pulling off a couple of different beers every few weeks, and most of them are very well done. Great brewery and nice saison.