Bon Chretien
Plan Bee Farm Brewery

 

Cloudy yellow pour with a white cap and lazy lacing. Wonderful pear, lemon, floral yeast, barnyard funk, light brett, and oak in the artful nose. Taste has a honey sweetness and green apple tartness added to the mix, yeast is less floral but more yogurt like now. This is all presented in the very delicate and light body with plenty of funk, oak, light tartness and springy influences to shape. This is plan bee's best work that I have had so far

 

Pale, translucent straw yellow body topped with a thick, frothy white head. Classic barnyard / horse blanket smell; over-ripe fruit. Beautiful taste; citrus-like; lime and lemon; white grapefruit; very mild light cereal grain presence; juicy. Medium body; acidic and tangy throughout; biting.

I can't say definitely that I pick up pear features per se, yet the beer as a whole is utterly fabulous for a wild ale. I can only imagine that there is some wonderful local terroir in play here. I highly recommend this one for fans of wild ales.

absolutely outrageous beer here, done with all new york state ingredients including pears, which is the special element in this one. definitely ranks among my favorites to date from these guys, which is really saying something, huge thanks to my brother for sending this out, what a specimen! its got a softly hazy corny yellow color and a high and lasting head the texture of steamed oat milk from the espresso machine, peaky and permanent. it smells less sour than a lot of their others, more bretty funk, more wild saison type character, less bacterial pucker, and i like that. some oak tannins and light vanilla from the wood are present, a nice wheaty base it seems on the grain side, and the essence of green pear, ripe and skinny, fleshy and sweet, honest and natural as i have known in beer, and so compatible with the esters of this yeast mix, really appealing. the flavor is fairly quick for how dynamic it is, as this is bone dry, and the grain is more of a texture than a flavor. the pear isnt over the top but its obvious, fresh and juicy and real as can be in here, the fragrance of the skin turns into a sort of floral taste with some light citrus tang to it, the the ripe flesh takes on a white wine character with the wood. again it seems wheat based to me, but the malt is so soft in it, it almost has a raw wheat vibe to me. the mouthfeel is special, clearly some wonderful bottle conditioning work has taken place, this is effervescent and dry as they come, but fluffy feeling still and with that soft carbonation that absolutely hits the spot in something like this, very much a belgian saison feel, which is just right for these flavors, so alive and so refined, but also so unique. i cant say enough about this one, really cool use of the pears in a beer thats memorable while also being understated. this is everything i stand for!

Poured from a bottle (20Aug2020) into a 25cl stein

L: pours a moderately turbid light yellow (~2 srm), huge fluffy white head. Not much visible carbonation, chunky lacing

S: some acidic barnyard funk to it, a bit of pear lurking. Lactic funk, some hay, lemon. Solid and inviting, that Plan Bee base brew with something extra a lot to like

T: falls off here, get a good amount of that band-aid ortho-chlorophenol flavor that basically overrides everything else. Some of the Plan Bee base trying to come through, but that off-flavor dominates - real shame

F: medium body, medium carbonation, nicely drying, easy to drink

O: good looking beer with an inviting nose that just falls apart on the flavor. Not sure what happened here, beer is drinkable but just not what (I imagine) was intended

Bottle courtesy of chesco.
Light hazy straw appearance. White frothy head that lingers forever.
S: funky, citrus, yogurt, cheese, something weird?
T: funk, Peppery, yogurt, lemon, pear juice, banana, medicinal/bandaids.
F: thin, dry.
Overall: initially seems funky and interesting but lacking with taste and mouthfeel.