Boulevard Smokestack Series - Saison-Brett

Brewed by Boulevard Brewing Company
Style: Saison
Kansas City, Missouri USA

Serve in Tulip

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Bottle @ THE Sour and Saison Tasting. Cheers, Paul! The pour’s deep golden amber with a massive white head. The nose is dusty sweet peach, earthy saison yeast, plenty of funky brett and light white grape liqueur. The taste is pillowy marshmallow, mild woody brett, some sweet orange marmalade. Lovely brett and barnyard, rustic flavors. Light, nimble body. This is a wonderfully expressive beer. Overall, pretty fantastic. Highly recommended.

Bottle (Batch 2009-2) at THE sours & saisons tasting (part 1). It pours hazy orange, with a massive white head. The nose is big on the funky brett, orange, tangerine, kumquat, wood, earth and farmyard. The taste is dough, spice, earth, quite delicate actually, distinguished brett character, orange citrus fruit, pithy, minerals, and faint herbal notes. Medium body, moderate carbonation and velvety mouth-feel. A couple of years of aging has really enhanced the brett character. Complex, well-balanced and very flavoursome. A great Saison.

Bottle (75 cl) from a trade with heyta. Clear golden, medium white head. Earthy, spicy, phenolic, with horsestable notes, cedar wood, and floral notes, chlororophyll, some apricots, and a slight touch of alcohol. Medium bodied, medium carbonation. Dry with medium bitterness.

(Bottle) Pours cloudy pale golden orange with a large white head. The aroma holds lilac, flowers, candy, wine gum and dirty horse up front with undertones of white bread, yeast, touch of phenols, and light “green” hops. The flavor is light sweet, light bitter and tiny acidic with notes of fruits, candy, flowers, white bread, grass, light brett, touch of phenols and dew. The mouthfeel is soft and tiny tart with a light to medium carbonation. Light phenolic, flowers, green citrus and herbs on the finish. Near medium bodied.

Saison Brett 750 ml bottle courtesy of Ekstedt. Pours very hazy pale golden with a big frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving a small sticky trace on the glass. Smell is tiny sweet, floral and slightly fruity with crackers, lilacs, clovers, cornflower, dry soil, cloves, orange zest, cedar, brett, white pepper, apricots and wine gums. Taste is tiny bitter, floral and dry with crackers, hay, dried flowers, cloves, white pepper, dry soil, tangerines, apricots, dark grapes, yellow wine gums, hay, lemon hard candy, cloves and dried flowers. Mouthfeel is soft, round, slightly dry, tiny tart and medium bodied. Finish is dry, herbal, tiny spicy and tiny tart with crackers, dry soil, brett, orange zest, grape skins, dried flowers, hay, cloves, cedar and tangerines. Great refreshing stuff!

Sampled at UCTS testing. Pours hazy yellow with small white head. Smells hay, fruity, synthetic rubber and flowery. Tastes rubbery fruity and wierd bitter.

Bottle at USA comes to Skövde. Clear pale golden beer with a big airy white that leaves very quickly. Perfume aroma, hay, brett, funky, woody, citrus, grapefruit, pine, some spices, wine gum, floral, yeasty, herbal, viola, orange, lilac, some grapefruit. Hoppy floral flavor, grassy, hay, lemon, citrus, brett, funky, pine, perfume, sweetish notes, herbal, yeast notes.

Bottle @ rlgk’s tasting. Pours cloudy pale golden with a great white head. Aroma is funky yeasty spicy violet cellar dill damp mold. Flavor is funky bitter sour saisony yeasty spicy hay astringent floral. Finishes dloral bitter astringent and a bit sweet.

Sampled at USSkovde Golden with a bubbly, white head. Cedar-like aroma with citrus and some peppery yeastiness. Light body. Cedar and orange-peel in the flavour. Funky candy. Flowery.

Classic barnyard funk smell with citrus in the background. Earthy taste followed by a slight sour twinge. Hint of pine like hop bitterness but balanced well with the saison style. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone