Afternooner Tea Saison - White Peach And Jasmine
Situation Brewing

1L (unlabeled) howler from the brewpub, who really need to get a handle on their takeout customer service - Jesus fucking Christ, use your words.

This beer pours a murky, medium apricot amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some stellar Swiss cheese pattern lace around the glass as things slowly progress.

It smells of fresh peach juice, bready and doughy caramel malt, some estery floral acridity, a faint earthy spiciness, and very subtle leafy, weedy, and musty hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, a lesser wheaten sweetness, ethereal yeasty notes, some peach and nectarine stone fruitiness, a weird flowers on a hot day thing, and more understated earthy, musty, and herbal green hoppiness.

The carbonation is pretty sedate it its plain as the day is long frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell (I could have said peachy) time here. It finishes off-dry, the peach (I'm sayin' it now) essence carrying the lingering fervour.

Overall - this comes across as yet another amenable iteration in this series of variably spiced/fruited/florid versions of the style. Totally worth seeking out, but maybe don't stay too long amongst the pithy hipster quotient, especially if that's not yer gig (looking at my two extended thumbs right now).