Saison dé Rustic - Apricot
BrewLAB
- From:
- BrewLAB
- California, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.34 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 29, 2019
- Added:
- Oct 05, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This beer is a celebration of the barrel & time, paired with Gaviota apricots, wild bacteria & brettanomyces.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by augustgarage from California
4.34/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2016 vintage; bottle 148/330. Poured from a 500mL, white-wax-capped bottle into my 3 Fontienen tumbler.
Clear gold liquid with three fingers of active seashell foam. Soapy lacing; good retention (the bubbles grow finer but never quite dissipate).
Sweet apricot notes are counterbalanced by a bracing tartness in the nose. Some floral/funk elements emerge, growing stronger as the ale warms.
Sharp acidity on the palate with a secondary wave of barnyard, sheep sweat, and wet hay. Apricots dance around the edges of the flavor profile, as do some mineral-laden, faintly oaky barrel notes. Hints of strawberry, cherry, and pinot noir in the aftertaste. Bright, dry, and crisp. Brett. is present but secondary (tertiary?). No appreciable bitterness. Yeast is neutral.
Well attenuated, some hints of stickiness, very lightly tannic, good carbonation.
Apricot is not as pungent as I would like, but nor is it overwhelmed by the wild notes or oak aging. Well balanced, complex, rustic, but sophisticated in a way too.
Aug 29, 2019Clear gold liquid with three fingers of active seashell foam. Soapy lacing; good retention (the bubbles grow finer but never quite dissipate).
Sweet apricot notes are counterbalanced by a bracing tartness in the nose. Some floral/funk elements emerge, growing stronger as the ale warms.
Sharp acidity on the palate with a secondary wave of barnyard, sheep sweat, and wet hay. Apricots dance around the edges of the flavor profile, as do some mineral-laden, faintly oaky barrel notes. Hints of strawberry, cherry, and pinot noir in the aftertaste. Bright, dry, and crisp. Brett. is present but secondary (tertiary?). No appreciable bitterness. Yeast is neutral.
Well attenuated, some hints of stickiness, very lightly tannic, good carbonation.
Apricot is not as pungent as I would like, but nor is it overwhelmed by the wild notes or oak aging. Well balanced, complex, rustic, but sophisticated in a way too.
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