Unfortunate Spelting Accident
Black Bottle Brewery

i love black bottle, i can always count on interesting and high quality beer when i visit their brewery, and that is absolutely the case here. a multigrain session saison with spelt and rye and oats and wheat in it, but also brewed with juniper branches! its crystal clear, looks like a well refined pilsener in the glass, gorgeous clarity for a saison type. it smells spicy from the rye and a little piney from the branches, which i believe were added to the mash, pretty cool! its not overly botanical or anything, light as it is, there is a lot of room for the malt here, i get the earthy oats and wheat along with the peppery dry rye, its awesome. usually clean saisons like this arent my thing because they lack depth, but even with a pretty minimal an standard fermentation profile on this, the beer has a ton going on it is, crazy for how light it is, but i love all the malt layers in something so delicate, and the juniper adds a fresh piney thing and a little bitterness at the end, never really woody to me, but foresty in a way, an awesome addition, i thought it might be more wintery or gin-like, but it is neither. its real fresh and light, very dry and extremely well carbonated. drinkable but also enormously flavorful and professionally done. i hope they keep making this one, its one of the better clean saison types out there right now. i love these guys, one of the most underrated operations in the state i reckon!