Tree Tipper
Is/Was Brewing
- From:
- Is/Was Brewing
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.1%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.91 | pDev: 5.12%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 08, 2026
- Added:
- Dec 20, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Saison brewed with Spruce Tips and Honey
Tree Tipper is the result of carefully considered combinations. Spruce tips with honey. Ingredient with process. We steeped spruce tips in locally sourced honey from The Hive Supply prior to adding both ingredients to the fermenting beer. This process allowed enzymes in the honey to transform some of the more aggressive, resinous compounds in the spruce tips into flavors and aromas that are more floral and fruity. Notes of green mango, toasted white bread, pineapple, cotton candy, maple sap and unripe strawberries lead to a delicate finish of spruce and tangerine zest.
Production Time: 9 weeks
Fermentation Vessel: Stainless Steel
Released: December 2019
Tree Tipper is the result of carefully considered combinations. Spruce tips with honey. Ingredient with process. We steeped spruce tips in locally sourced honey from The Hive Supply prior to adding both ingredients to the fermenting beer. This process allowed enzymes in the honey to transform some of the more aggressive, resinous compounds in the spruce tips into flavors and aromas that are more floral and fruity. Notes of green mango, toasted white bread, pineapple, cotton candy, maple sap and unripe strawberries lead to a delicate finish of spruce and tangerine zest.
Production Time: 9 weeks
Fermentation Vessel: Stainless Steel
Released: December 2019
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by stortore from Illinois
4.02/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
500 ml bottle into a tulip glass. Had 2/16/22.
Pours a hazy orange amber, with a two inch creamy foam head with great retention and lots of thick foamy lacing. Aromas of Belgian yeast, spruce, wheat, a light funk. Has a floral aroma. Flavors of malt, spruce, wheat, light Belgian yeast, some funk, light lemon, a little resin. Has a floral taste, along with light hop bitterness and a slight sweet note. Smooth, a good medium body, well carbonated.
The spruce shows really well in both the aroma and flavor to go along with the good saison base beer. Definitely worth a try.
Jun 02, 2023Pours a hazy orange amber, with a two inch creamy foam head with great retention and lots of thick foamy lacing. Aromas of Belgian yeast, spruce, wheat, a light funk. Has a floral aroma. Flavors of malt, spruce, wheat, light Belgian yeast, some funk, light lemon, a little resin. Has a floral taste, along with light hop bitterness and a slight sweet note. Smooth, a good medium body, well carbonated.
The spruce shows really well in both the aroma and flavor to go along with the good saison base beer. Definitely worth a try.
Reviewed by GrumpyGas from Illinois
3.81/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
500ml bottle released December 2022
Poured into a stemmed wine glass shows a cloudy, golden yellow body and floats a consistent wispy cap and edge ring of tiny white bubbles after receding from a fluffy 1" head of foam.
I found a Christmas tree in my glass. Spruce aroma and flavors is strong, and dominant, especially straight out of the chiller. With warmth the honey tempers the spruce bitterness, without limiting the piney goodness, and gets more balanced.
Mouthfeel is light and bubbly, with an almost ticklish carbonation.
Overall, I need more saison tasting experiences, but I enjoyed this.
Dec 04, 2022Poured into a stemmed wine glass shows a cloudy, golden yellow body and floats a consistent wispy cap and edge ring of tiny white bubbles after receding from a fluffy 1" head of foam.
I found a Christmas tree in my glass. Spruce aroma and flavors is strong, and dominant, especially straight out of the chiller. With warmth the honey tempers the spruce bitterness, without limiting the piney goodness, and gets more balanced.
Mouthfeel is light and bubbly, with an almost ticklish carbonation.
Overall, I need more saison tasting experiences, but I enjoyed this.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.55/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Very bubbly golden murky body with a sudsy off-white head. The smell is intriguing: rustic saison yeast, earth, honey, pine, dry melon and bright citrus zest. Taste is not so pleasant: soapy pine clashes with super sweet honey and citrus, saison foundations are left behind. Feel is soapy, sweet, and yeasty but the body breaks down quickly.
Jun 15, 2020
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.87/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
3.87/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
An interesting saison. Using mostly spruce needles for and honey for character, consider this as a gruit-saison for the winter. And that is how I enjoyed it. Tree Tipper show its saison qualities as it accompanied well an interesting pizza.
As for its Looks, not so good; lively to start and ends with flat dishwater Looks. Smells are of evergreens in the house for the season. Tastes are subtle, but indicate what Tree Tipper needs: a lively yeast that brings all ingredients together. Such a yeast will kick in some more fruit, it will deepen the sweet, and it will give us some protein swirls that cleanse the palate.
This is my second from is/was. Their website says no more than it did from my first review a few months back. But they seem a dedicated crew and smart to brew in Marz' shop.
Dec 20, 2019As for its Looks, not so good; lively to start and ends with flat dishwater Looks. Smells are of evergreens in the house for the season. Tastes are subtle, but indicate what Tree Tipper needs: a lively yeast that brings all ingredients together. Such a yeast will kick in some more fruit, it will deepen the sweet, and it will give us some protein swirls that cleanse the palate.
This is my second from is/was. Their website says no more than it did from my first review a few months back. But they seem a dedicated crew and smart to brew in Marz' shop.
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