Form To Table
Fermentery Form

The smell of this beer is what makes it. It's funky in the best way.

Light gold with some fizziness on top. Not much aroma, a little sourness. Acidity on this one is not overwhelming, just a touch with a lot of earthy funkiness and some moderate bitterness. Good but not as flavorful as other Form beers. Easily drinkable (as it should be at 3.5%) with a light body and that fizziness.

 

Pours a pale golden straw with some pillowy white head. Spritzy carb is apparent too. Nose is some lemon with some Brett driven funk. IDK how this tasted fresh, but it is light and refreshing. There is a lemony citrus note but more so the expressed oils and less so the puckering juice and the body is light which makes it absolutely perfect for warm weather. The acidity isn't overrepresented even as it warms. A real nice table beer.

Opened on 1-30-21 and poured into an Orval glass.

A: Hazy golden color with a persistent thin white head. Minimal lacing on the glass.

S: Lemon, some floral/perfume notes.

T: Lemon, on the pithy side (not juicy). Difficult to discern the source, minerally and astringent in the finish.

M: Light bodied, but supported by a firm minerality.

O: The acidity and phenolics are restrained, making this an overall very well balanced and refreshing table beer. Perhaps a little on the pithy/astringent side, but not unpleasant.

Pours an apple color. Some white head. Retention is so so.
The nose is fruity. I get some apple, pear aromas.
Taste - lighter but fruity. A lot like champagne.
Bubbly, and light bodied. Refreshing.
Quite tasty and very easy drinking.

 

Fermentery Form "Form To Table"
750 ML green glass bottle, simply capped, "Batch: #001"
$10 @ the fermentery

Notes via stream of consciousness: Seeing as how this is a simple table beer I've washed up one of my Imperial pint "Nonic" glasses with salt so that it would be "beer clean". It's poured a slightly hazy but still almost fingerprint-through-the-glass light yellow-gold body beneath a finger-thick head of creamy bright white foam. Very nice looking. Keep in mind, there are lees at the base of the bottle so the next pour should be at least a little bit more cloudy. Make sure to let it sit cold for a day or so to let it settle out. The aroma is reminiscent of apples, and apple skins, for some reason making me think specifically of Rome apples, although that probably means nothing. There's some grainy malt there as well, and some very light grassy hops. It's reminded me of a Kölsch except for the mild cidery note. On to the flavor... as usual the nose is almost always correct and everything that I've noted regarding the aroma remains pretty much exactly the same with a few additions. There's a very light tartness to it, a hint of apricot, some mild oaky dryness, and some additional herbal character. It's got a stiff median bitterness to balance the malt, pretty perfectly I'd say, and along with the light tartness and delicate oak it finishes dry. Herbal, grassy, and perhaps even lightly spicy hops linger with some bitterness in the aftertaste along with a fading note of residual malt. In the mouth it's light-medium in body and lightly spritzy, gently effervescent, and crisp with a very fine-bubbled, seemingly natural carbonation. It's interesting because of the light acidity and oakiness for about a glass but not compellingly so, and beyond that it's fairly basic - on the other hand, that's exactly what it's intended to be, a basic, simple table beer. I'd imagine that this would be what a very well made commercial beer may have been like in the early 1800's, and that farmhouse or smaller commercial breweries would have been producing something like this even into the 1900's. The yeast pour adds some additional tartness and character, and a bit of lemony flavor - it becomes a different beer altogether so I'm not sure how I'd suggest this be served at this point. I really liked the clear, more apple-like presentation, but with the yeast added-in the cloudy, more "rustic" and slightly more complex version is just as good. I guess I'll have to say to just try it however it is, it's a good beer regardless.

Review # 5,912 3.75/4/4.25/4/4 = 4.09