Fleur De Lis
Four Quarters Brewing Co.
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- Style:
- Farmhouse Ale - Saison
Ranked #346 - ABV:
- 4.4%
- Score:
- 90
Ranked #8,434 - Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 9.98%
- Reviews:
- 9
- Ratings:
- From:
- Four Quarters Brewing Co.
- Vermont, United States
- Avail:
- Rotating/Seasonal
- Wants
- 2
- Gots
- 4
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
Notes:
Tart saison fermented and aged in red wine barrels
Reviews: 9
| Ratings: 42
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BEER88 from Washington
4.29/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Corked bottle dated feb 11 2016 poured into two steamed wine glasses. Pour is hazy peach with a fizzy white head that fades! No lacing on the glass even when consumed! The smell is lemon, white wine, pepper, honey, funk, hay, tart! The taste is lemon, tart graps, light citrus , tartness, and subtle hay! The feel is light but slick and leaves a coating in my mouth and also fizzy (wierd-but good). Overall I am gonna try and get another and age it for a while!
May 17, 2017
4.29/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Corked bottle dated feb 11 2016 poured into two steamed wine glasses. Pour is hazy peach with a fizzy white head that fades! No lacing on the glass even when consumed! The smell is lemon, white wine, pepper, honey, funk, hay, tart! The taste is lemon, tart graps, light citrus , tartness, and subtle hay! The feel is light but slick and leaves a coating in my mouth and also fizzy (wierd-but good). Overall I am gonna try and get another and age it for a while!
May 17, 2017
PhineasMcClintock from Massachusetts
3.81/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Jun 04, 2017
3.81/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Jun 04, 2017
oriolesfan4 from Maryland
3.75/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
May 16, 2017
3.75/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
May 16, 2017
Rifugium from North Dakota
3.94/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at Four Quarters.
Labeled as a "tart saison."
This was a cloudy, pale straw-yellow beer, which poured out with a huge fluff of white head, but soon simmered down to a reasonable bubbly layer, leaving dots of lacing on the glass. The aroma was extremely doughy, surprisingly, lots of bready yeast, mellowing out with time to give some grassy notes. Nothing really "tart" in the nose. The taste was also pretty doughy up front, mid-palate bringing in some light lemongrass with a very mellow tartness, finishing off with some sour apple and an essence of mineral. Interesting for sure. Light body, crisp mouthfeel, a little awkward at first, but once I realized what was going on, this was one tasty, drinkable brew.
The brewer noted that he threw some of this beer in a red wine barrel, and I think that will really compliment this beer well.
Apr 05, 2014
3.94/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at Four Quarters.
Labeled as a "tart saison."
This was a cloudy, pale straw-yellow beer, which poured out with a huge fluff of white head, but soon simmered down to a reasonable bubbly layer, leaving dots of lacing on the glass. The aroma was extremely doughy, surprisingly, lots of bready yeast, mellowing out with time to give some grassy notes. Nothing really "tart" in the nose. The taste was also pretty doughy up front, mid-palate bringing in some light lemongrass with a very mellow tartness, finishing off with some sour apple and an essence of mineral. Interesting for sure. Light body, crisp mouthfeel, a little awkward at first, but once I realized what was going on, this was one tasty, drinkable brew.
The brewer noted that he threw some of this beer in a red wine barrel, and I think that will really compliment this beer well.
Apr 05, 2014
fx20736 from New York
4.04/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Acquired in a trade, early 2016. Served in a Duvel tulip at fridge temp.
Look: hazy brass, white head that disappears complrtely
Smell: smells sour, like white wine
Taste: moderately tart and fruity
Feel: medium-full
Overall: refreshing, Summeryy. Nice after Father's Day dinner
Jun 19, 2016
4.04/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Acquired in a trade, early 2016. Served in a Duvel tulip at fridge temp.
Look: hazy brass, white head that disappears complrtely
Smell: smells sour, like white wine
Taste: moderately tart and fruity
Feel: medium-full
Overall: refreshing, Summeryy. Nice after Father's Day dinner
Jun 19, 2016
youbrewidrink from Vermont
4.14/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Feb 15, 2015
4.14/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Feb 15, 2015
VelvetExtract from Massachusetts
3.99/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
VT Brewfest
A-Pours a hazy golden color.
S-Plenty of aroma for a beer this diminutive. Moderate funk. Smelled almost dusty, which was cool.
T-Perky tartness. Mostly dry. Barny. Some straw. A bit of white bread or maybe sourdough.
M-Light, lip smacking in some essences. Very refreshing.
O-Could definitively take a whole pint of this. Cool sample at the Fest.
Jul 29, 2014
3.99/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
VT Brewfest
A-Pours a hazy golden color.
S-Plenty of aroma for a beer this diminutive. Moderate funk. Smelled almost dusty, which was cool.
T-Perky tartness. Mostly dry. Barny. Some straw. A bit of white bread or maybe sourdough.
M-Light, lip smacking in some essences. Very refreshing.
O-Could definitively take a whole pint of this. Cool sample at the Fest.
Jul 29, 2014
acurtis from New Jersey
2.45/5 rDev -40.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Mar 17, 2018
2.45/5 rDev -40.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Mar 17, 2018
fmccormi from California
4.21/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 2.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Straight pour from a 32oz crowler (filled about seven hours ago at the brewery) to a narrow teku-style wineglass. This is my first time with a crowler, and I’m curious to see what it’s like. This has been refrigerated for several hours.
Appearance (2.25): Kind of a rough pour because of the balance of the container, but it pours out a a cloudy, peach-tinted, straw-colored body—actually, I’m pretty sure this is what you call “flesh” in a box of crayons. It looks like peach juice blended with strawberries. There was a bit of aggressively crackling foam right off of the pour, but it didn’t stack and dissipated quickly. This looks a lot more like a Berliner, quite frankly. It’s got a pretty body but doesn’t look anything like a saison should.
Smell (4.25): . . . aaaand it kind of smells like one, too. Underripe peach, tart, green grapes, crusty, sourdough country bread, the sour smell of lacto (it’s like plain, unsweetened Greek yogurt), a bit of red wine tannins, and just a hint of something like strawberries. This smells like an outstanding Berliner weisse, but a saison, I’m not so sure. So far at least, I’m not complaining in the slightest.
Taste (4.5): Here, at least, it tastes like a saison—just, a saison blended with a Berliner. (Again, not complaining.) There’s a pale, dry, but soft malt base that betrays the oats in the recipe, not as strong or tangy as the sourdough scent in the aroma would lead you to suspect. On the flipside, there’s the tart, citrusy snap of unsweetened lemonade, a rounded, but subtle sweetness on the backend like watered down papaya juice, a very soft spice component buried underneath the malt and sour flavors, like a little white pepper and coriander, but it’s barely discernible after the sourness. Gooseberry, underripe peach, and a clean, lactic finish. Very, very refreshing.
Mouthfeel (4.5): Very subtle carbonation allows the sourness of the palate to do its thing without being overwhelming or scrubbing every available surface. It’s still dry, but the soft feel from the oats smooth out everything else—the lactic acid, the lemony snap, the tannic undertones, they’re all met with the silky feel of oats in a pale beer. It feels more like a saison, actually, because of those oats.
Overall (4.0): In the end, I’m critiquing this beer for what it is, which is a pale, well-crafted sour with an extremely soft base of oats. It doesn’t meet almost any standard for a saison, and if you handed this to me and said it was a Berliner, I’d say “yep, makes sense.” That said, it’s delicious. It smells great, it tastes fantastic, it feels soft, tart, and refreshing, and it looks like a Berliner. (Which, as one of the least attractive styles of beer out there, is not a compliment—though the pinkish hue in the body is really pretty.) What a trip. Long story short, this is delicious and everyone should try it.
Oct 18, 2015
4.21/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 2.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Straight pour from a 32oz crowler (filled about seven hours ago at the brewery) to a narrow teku-style wineglass. This is my first time with a crowler, and I’m curious to see what it’s like. This has been refrigerated for several hours.
Appearance (2.25): Kind of a rough pour because of the balance of the container, but it pours out a a cloudy, peach-tinted, straw-colored body—actually, I’m pretty sure this is what you call “flesh” in a box of crayons. It looks like peach juice blended with strawberries. There was a bit of aggressively crackling foam right off of the pour, but it didn’t stack and dissipated quickly. This looks a lot more like a Berliner, quite frankly. It’s got a pretty body but doesn’t look anything like a saison should.
Smell (4.25): . . . aaaand it kind of smells like one, too. Underripe peach, tart, green grapes, crusty, sourdough country bread, the sour smell of lacto (it’s like plain, unsweetened Greek yogurt), a bit of red wine tannins, and just a hint of something like strawberries. This smells like an outstanding Berliner weisse, but a saison, I’m not so sure. So far at least, I’m not complaining in the slightest.
Taste (4.5): Here, at least, it tastes like a saison—just, a saison blended with a Berliner. (Again, not complaining.) There’s a pale, dry, but soft malt base that betrays the oats in the recipe, not as strong or tangy as the sourdough scent in the aroma would lead you to suspect. On the flipside, there’s the tart, citrusy snap of unsweetened lemonade, a rounded, but subtle sweetness on the backend like watered down papaya juice, a very soft spice component buried underneath the malt and sour flavors, like a little white pepper and coriander, but it’s barely discernible after the sourness. Gooseberry, underripe peach, and a clean, lactic finish. Very, very refreshing.
Mouthfeel (4.5): Very subtle carbonation allows the sourness of the palate to do its thing without being overwhelming or scrubbing every available surface. It’s still dry, but the soft feel from the oats smooth out everything else—the lactic acid, the lemony snap, the tannic undertones, they’re all met with the silky feel of oats in a pale beer. It feels more like a saison, actually, because of those oats.
Overall (4.0): In the end, I’m critiquing this beer for what it is, which is a pale, well-crafted sour with an extremely soft base of oats. It doesn’t meet almost any standard for a saison, and if you handed this to me and said it was a Berliner, I’d say “yep, makes sense.” That said, it’s delicious. It smells great, it tastes fantastic, it feels soft, tart, and refreshing, and it looks like a Berliner. (Which, as one of the least attractive styles of beer out there, is not a compliment—though the pinkish hue in the body is really pretty.) What a trip. Long story short, this is delicious and everyone should try it.
Oct 18, 2015
SlightlyGrey from Minnesota
4.1/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Feb 09, 2016
4.1/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Feb 09, 2016
StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.54/5 rDev -13.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
im not sure if they did a version that was aged for an additional amount of time in red barrels, or if the one i had at the brewery was the same barrel fermented beer as the one listed here, but mine looked nothing like the one on their website, and tasted nothing like what others described here. it was reddish from the tap, thick and still, almost totally lacking carbonation and head. the nose is heavy lactic acid and red wine and oak tannins. its far more sour than it needs to be, and it comes at the expense of whatever saison yeast they used to do it, almost cheesy funky too, weird and not my favorite. i do like all the grains in the base though, you can taste them at different times, and the body added by the oats and wheat is pretty awesome, especially in a beer this low in alcohol, but nothing about it seems delicate or even entirely correct since its so flat. sharp to drink much more than a glass of, and even worse as it warms up. i must have gotten a funky pour or there must be an additional barrel aged version that they were serving up. i was the least impressed with this of the several beers we had here...
Aug 13, 2016
3.54/5 rDev -13.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
im not sure if they did a version that was aged for an additional amount of time in red barrels, or if the one i had at the brewery was the same barrel fermented beer as the one listed here, but mine looked nothing like the one on their website, and tasted nothing like what others described here. it was reddish from the tap, thick and still, almost totally lacking carbonation and head. the nose is heavy lactic acid and red wine and oak tannins. its far more sour than it needs to be, and it comes at the expense of whatever saison yeast they used to do it, almost cheesy funky too, weird and not my favorite. i do like all the grains in the base though, you can taste them at different times, and the body added by the oats and wheat is pretty awesome, especially in a beer this low in alcohol, but nothing about it seems delicate or even entirely correct since its so flat. sharp to drink much more than a glass of, and even worse as it warms up. i must have gotten a funky pour or there must be an additional barrel aged version that they were serving up. i was the least impressed with this of the several beers we had here...
Aug 13, 2016
SocalKicks from California
3.75/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Oct 29, 2015
3.75/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Oct 29, 2015
Fleur De Lis from Four Quarters Brewing Co.
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