It Is What It Was
Is/Was Brewing
- From:
- Is/Was Brewing
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 28, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 26, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Saison brewed with Purple Rice
We got together with our friends at Funkytown Brewery and set out to make a perfect ‘food beer’, specifically one to pair with creole or cajun cuisine. So we built a base with pilsner malt, malted purple rice, and peachwood smoked barley then hopped it with Michigan-grown Cashmere hops. The resulting beer is crisp and structured with notes of white peaches, strawberry compote, rice-derived nuttiness, and wisps of fruity smoke.
We got together with our friends at Funkytown Brewery and set out to make a perfect ‘food beer’, specifically one to pair with creole or cajun cuisine. So we built a base with pilsner malt, malted purple rice, and peachwood smoked barley then hopped it with Michigan-grown Cashmere hops. The resulting beer is crisp and structured with notes of white peaches, strawberry compote, rice-derived nuttiness, and wisps of fruity smoke.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.98/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
3.98/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
I had saved this bottle and my last can from the Funkytown rendition to drink side-by-side with creole/cajun food as both brewers intended. I have yet to get such food from such a restaurant, so tonight's Indian food with friends looked like the best opportunity I had in 2022. So, I took it.
Initial taste of this Is/Was rendition was that it was quite different, more like a saison and the smoke was quite mute relative to my memory of Funkytown's rendition. (I added their rendition to BA as a Smoked Beer; and got familiar with four cans.) To keep the comparison fair, I opened my last Funkytown and... decided I should let them both warmup and will finish this review after the meal.
Side-by-side, it seems this collaboration is from the same batch. Is/Was is slightly more blonde than Funkytown, but the smoke seems there in roughly equal amounts. Each's accompaniment to Indian food was equally welcome and soothing relief to the spicy heat.
I am a big fan of both micros. I am thrilled that they found each other for this brew. And I want more. Cheers, Bros !
Dec 28, 2022Initial taste of this Is/Was rendition was that it was quite different, more like a saison and the smoke was quite mute relative to my memory of Funkytown's rendition. (I added their rendition to BA as a Smoked Beer; and got familiar with four cans.) To keep the comparison fair, I opened my last Funkytown and... decided I should let them both warmup and will finish this review after the meal.
Side-by-side, it seems this collaboration is from the same batch. Is/Was is slightly more blonde than Funkytown, but the smoke seems there in roughly equal amounts. Each's accompaniment to Indian food was equally welcome and soothing relief to the spicy heat.
I am a big fan of both micros. I am thrilled that they found each other for this brew. And I want more. Cheers, Bros !
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