Saison Meer: Gin Barrel & Dandelion (2020)
Afterthought Brewing Company
- From:
- Afterthought Brewing Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Specialty Saison
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.32 | pDev: 1.62%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 17, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 25, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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The only annual beer we've released for Blended Barrel makes its return. The one change to this batch was that we had enough to ferment it in a white wine barrel as opposed to stainless or neutral oak beers, so it underwent primary fermentation in the wine barrel before being transferred to two 15-gallon gin barrels where it rested about two months. The wine character imparts a bit and we aged it for a bit less than previous batches so as to not obscure the dandelion too much.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
4.25/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I had this on draft 9/13/23 @ the Beer Temple.
Cloudy dull orange appearance.
Small white head; decent lacing remained.
Lemon, flowers & oak notes in the nose.
Medium mouthfeel.
Lemon, dry gin, flowers & oak flavors; the gin notes grew stronger as this warmed.
Dry, bold & interesting. I'm not the biggest gin fan in the world but I enjoyed this.
Sep 17, 2023Cloudy dull orange appearance.
Small white head; decent lacing remained.
Lemon, flowers & oak notes in the nose.
Medium mouthfeel.
Lemon, dry gin, flowers & oak flavors; the gin notes grew stronger as this warmed.
Dry, bold & interesting. I'm not the biggest gin fan in the world but I enjoyed this.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.39/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Clear golden body with a thin white collar, webbing, and active carbonation. Sweet white wine with botanicals lead the nose before tart lemon, funky yeast, grape must, huge oak, and gin waves crash in. Lighter but clean nose. Taste is similar, doesn't open up as much as the orignal, lemon, white grape, oak, flowers, gin, white wine, trace amounts of funk, and grapefruit zest. Still a little on the sweeter side, but very refreshing. Classic afterthought feel: starts wet and cool, then drys out like a fine champagne by the finish, tons of wood tannins and yeast. The wine twist is detected helping the nose but hurting the taste. Both are fantastic, would love to try back to back sometime
Jun 11, 2021
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