Grandissant 4x Cerise
Rowley Farmhouse Ales

Thanks to leftpaw for bringing this out to Thanksgiving 2019. 1st review of this beer on BA.

Pours a deep red color generally associated with cherry beers and cherry cold medicine with slightly less viscosity. Whatchugonnado when they're dropping 4 lbs of cherries per gallon. Eeeh gad. Almost no head on it, but the color is pretty. The aroma is cherry first, a bit of saison yeast competing with that. Doesn't really have a chardonnay character to it, but there is a light woody presence.

Ah, the cherries really stand out here, so much, and some of the faves, Montmorency and Bing have all the juice, they managed to not be too acidic or sharp, perhaps the flaked oats and wheat soften this up similar to what they bring in the hazy ipa game. I think that plus the wood really keep this mouth feel like a heavily fruited 'beer' that doesn't stray too so far that it becomes more like a different concoction than a 'beer'.

Its definitely top notch stuff, I'm sure the only downsides are price and availability.