Saison & Garfunkel
Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery

 

 

 

 

A- Pours a slightly hazy yellowish color with a thin white head. Head has little retention and leaves pretty much very spotty lacing at best.

S- Quite a bit of fruits, yeast, spicy, and pepper.

T- Taste has bit of funkiness to it nothing over the top and something that I could handle in a small amount. A good amount of yeast and spices here too.

M- Lighter side of medium and carbonation was on the lighter side as well.

O- I've had this one a couple of times, and though I don't hate it I know I could drink the whole bottle by myself.

 

 

 

Bottle shared by yourefragile. I hated it but didn't rise to the level of everyone else.

Beer is yellow and clear, moderately carbonated, and low retention on a white head. Looks fine.

Aroma is oddly spicy in a way that is familiar but hard to describe, definitely some orange peel but it has this almost bad Thai food component in there that I can't put my finger on.

Beer is thin and nearly undrinkable, it is harsh, sweet with this horrid tea-like astringency and bitterness at the end. Nope, not again.

From 02/25/12 notes. Bottle shared by yourfragile, thanks Michael.

a - Pours a golden orange color with one inch of white head and moderate carbonation evident.

s - Smells of spices, oranges, wheat, and grains. A little weak and bland, not great.

t - Tastes of oranges, spices, yeast, pepper, grains, bread, wheat. Again, a little bland/weak.

m - Medium body and moderate carbonation.

o - Overall a below average saison. Some light orange or citrus but other then that a bit bland. Good name for a beer but wouldn't seek it out again.

Thanks yourefragile for sharing this beer. Served in a snifter.

Good name; bad beer. That's the gist of it. Pours a fairly clear orange color with a thin white head and a thin collar throughout. Smells like earth and old orange peel. Musty and kind of gross. A bit of garbage. It smells just a touch, just a tad of garbage can. Maybe old fruit? I don't like it. The flavor is similar and not an improvement. More fruit there, but odd. Very odd. Moldy clementine peel. This is quite bad. I'm sorry.

 

Saison & Garfunkel pours up a bit heavy with enough effervescence to create a creamy white head that persists above the relatively hazy, deep peach golden-orange body. The zesty aroma showcases the spiciness from the peppercorns along with some phenolic overtones given by the yeast followed by hints of citric fruitiness from the clementines with just a touch of pleasant herbalness from the rosemary as it warms in hand. Alcohol is sharp! The flavor starts off a bit cloying, but the spiciness from the actual spice additions + the yeast eventually displaces the sweetness while some firm bitterness tries to round out the underlying maltiness creating a slightly (hot) harsh, off-centered sweetish finish that is honestly a little bit dissapointing. This one may come together with further cellaring, but it's a 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' right now. Here's to Tom & Jerry!

CHEERS! Beertracker

 

 

 

 

22oz bottle poured into large tulip glass

Pours a hazed golden orange color with a thin layering of white head. Retains with cloudy film and spotty lacing.

Some herbal qualities in the nose mixed with citrus and orange peel. Light spice followed by faint yeast funk and malty sweetness.

Faint herbal hoppiness up front, slightly bitter. Decent amount of citrus with orange peel and clementine, followed by peppery spice. A bit on the sweet side of things, with some bready malt and caramel, followed by Belgian yeast funkiness. Hints of pear and graininess, finishes a bit dry and sweet.

Fuller medium body, higher carbonation, sticky and prickly on the tongue. An alright saison, although this was nowhere near as good as the Brett version.

A – Golden ice tea orange. Pours a white head that sits relatively low and doesn’t last very long.

S – Complex, and on the fruitier side of the style. Apple, pear, cinnamon, brown sugar, nectarine, and pumpkin pie. Some honey as it warms.

T – Lightly fruity up front with orange zest and pear. Bright pepper rolls up through the middle with strong herbal notes of sage. Finishes semi-dry, lightly acidic, and peppery. Delicious, spicy and refreshing.

M – Nice carbonation, but could use a bit more. Medium light body.

O – A nice saison on the brighter, spicier side of the style.

Shared by whiterascal and poured into a tulip.

This saison was made in collaboration with an eatery in the Wicker Park area of Chicago. For a 15-barrel batch, Flossmoor added three pounds of peppercorns, 1.5 pounds of fresh rosemary and the peels from 20 pounds of clementines. The beer also did all of its fermentation above 80 degrees.

Carrot-orange and fairly cloudy. One finger of sand-colored foam fizzles away after a few seconds to a stoic medium ring.

Grainy nose. Tons of spicy pepper, honey, pear syrup, lightly toasted crackers and just a hint of rosemary. Aromatic, spicy.

Wow, super sugary flavor. Tons of honey and burnt sugar, some citrus peel and pears. After the finish — which does its best to wipe out the sweetness but can't take it all down — esters of pepper permeate the air in the mouth.

Syrupy medium body, light electric carbonation and very soft fizz. Just a bit of tongue-numbing alcohol.

Too heavy and too sweet for a saison. The flavor actually gets a little cloying after a while. A fatiguing glass to get through.