Batch_4 Cherry Saison
Innocente Brewing Company
- From:
- Innocente Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Specialty Saison
- ABV:
- 5.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 06, 2016
- Added:
- Jun 28, 2016
- Wants:
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- Gots:
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.67/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
500 mL bottle picked up at the brewery in mid-June (no bottling date). Served slightly chilled.
Pours a lightly hazy, highly effervescent golden-amber colour, supporting one inch of soapy, puffy, sparkling white head. It dissipates slowly but steadily, eventually being reduced to a denser, creamier cap about half a finger high and circled by a foamy collar. Quite enticing visually. The aroma includes notes of grain husk, bready pale malts and grassy straw, with the cherry being a persistent-yet-subtle background presence. Faint hints of yeast.
An enjoyable saison with understated fruit flavour. A sturdy spine of bready, grainy pale malt sweetness lasts throughout the profile, with vaguely tart notes of cherry, stone fruit, and a hint of citrus coming through by the middle of the sip. Grassy hay and leafy, earthy notes on the back end dry the palate out, preluding a yeasty finish with some copper penny metallicity in the aftertaste. That last one annoyed me during the first few sips, but it also weakens as the beer warms. Light-ish in body, with aggressive carbonation that foams up in the mouth, creating a prickly mouthfeel with low weight.
Final Grade: 3.67, a B grade. I go into most fruit beers with reservations, but cherry-flavoured ones in particular have a history of really disappointing me. Using this fruit haphazardly or ham-fistedly can result in a candy-sweet, syrupy disaster. Fortunately for me, Innocente got the cherry just about right in their Batch_4 Cherry Saison - any more and it might start to get cloying or "cough syrupy", but any less and it would barely be worth including in the first place. The metallic notes on the back end are a slight detriment, but overall this is a very drinkable saison that I don't regret purchasing. Respectable brew, and worthy of a try.
Jul 06, 2016Pours a lightly hazy, highly effervescent golden-amber colour, supporting one inch of soapy, puffy, sparkling white head. It dissipates slowly but steadily, eventually being reduced to a denser, creamier cap about half a finger high and circled by a foamy collar. Quite enticing visually. The aroma includes notes of grain husk, bready pale malts and grassy straw, with the cherry being a persistent-yet-subtle background presence. Faint hints of yeast.
An enjoyable saison with understated fruit flavour. A sturdy spine of bready, grainy pale malt sweetness lasts throughout the profile, with vaguely tart notes of cherry, stone fruit, and a hint of citrus coming through by the middle of the sip. Grassy hay and leafy, earthy notes on the back end dry the palate out, preluding a yeasty finish with some copper penny metallicity in the aftertaste. That last one annoyed me during the first few sips, but it also weakens as the beer warms. Light-ish in body, with aggressive carbonation that foams up in the mouth, creating a prickly mouthfeel with low weight.
Final Grade: 3.67, a B grade. I go into most fruit beers with reservations, but cherry-flavoured ones in particular have a history of really disappointing me. Using this fruit haphazardly or ham-fistedly can result in a candy-sweet, syrupy disaster. Fortunately for me, Innocente got the cherry just about right in their Batch_4 Cherry Saison - any more and it might start to get cloying or "cough syrupy", but any less and it would barely be worth including in the first place. The metallic notes on the back end are a slight detriment, but overall this is a very drinkable saison that I don't regret purchasing. Respectable brew, and worthy of a try.
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