Sweet Potato Farmhouse Ale
Big aLICe Brewing Finger Lakes

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is pretty bad, a terrible first impression of these guys, and it sounded so good on paper, a sweet potato saison type, that sounds earthy and cool, but its a mess, the fermentation is all whack, possibly even infected, and it comes across as very amateur, i cant believe a beer like this can survive in a city so full of absurdly good beer! hopefully i just got mine poured into a glass that was rinsed in chemicals or something and that this doesnt actually taste like melted plastic, like when you leave the handle of a cheap fry pan over the adjacent burner thats on full blast by accident and the whole house smells like a chemical fire before you realize it, theres no way they did that right? i get no trace at all of sweet potatoes from this, and the yeast is so weird, not funky or rustic like i was hoping for, but like a belgian gone awry. its worse in the nose than the taste, but this is hardly tolerable. i realize that its a lot easier to sit behind a computer and be critical of a beer than it is to stand in front of a grain mill, on a brew deck, or on a kegging line and actually make one, but this is way off, and if i was responsible for it there is no way i would send this out in the world for people like me to suffer through. i need to try another big alice beer soon to give them a shot at redemption...