Brooklyn Flemish Gold

Formerly brewed at Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Saison
Brooklyn, New York USA

Serve in Tulip

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Clean, new mown hay aroma. Not very heavy on the spice, in fact, one of the lightest examples of the style i have had, but it is superbly executed and well balanced.

Draft at BGH. Straw yellow with a creamy head. Aroma is sweet grains and vanilla. Taste is rich with cereal and mint/basil with a nice crisp finish. Very good.

Probably my favorite of all the Brewmaster Resurve beers that Brooklyn put out in 2008. This beer quite reminds me of the Brooklyn-Schneider Hopfen-Weiss, straw like body, a slight hint of wild yeast, a beautiful bouquet of hops, like fresh hop cones ground up in your hands. All aspects of this beer play very well together. = Refreshing, Complex, Enjoyable & Delicious.

sample bbf 08. Pours a nice light mostly clear golden with a massive fluffy white head and some nice lace. Aroam is fruity, ligthly spiced, mostly american citrus hops with some crisp piney cooling notes. Good doughy and cracker malts, some breadiness, great hop spiciness, floral and good citrus and pine. Nice bone dry finish and clean refreshing bitterness from what I think was Glacier Hops on the description at the fest.

From draught sample at Capone’s. Hot dog spices in the nose, with coriander and orange peel and some light yeasty character. Very nice and calming. Light hazy golden amber with thin lacing head. Medium body with medium carbonation - smooth. Nice and spicy with coriander and orange peel, maybe some peppercorn. Dry bitter acidity and chalky hops. Bitter in finish. Yeasty dry with right amount of pilsner malt flavor in the after. Like a dry tripel or aggressive wit.

On draft at Capones. Pours a hazy gold with a frosty white head. Nice lacing. Aroma of peppery spice, sweetness and hops. Taste of light sweet, yet soury peppery hops. Quite different, yet very enjoyable.

Really nice spice character that I originally thought was ginger. I was worried that this would be one of those tastes that I like at the beginning but hate at the end, but it was mild enough so that I enjoyed it until the end, great job.

Growler from Bierkraft. Very, very pale golden beer with a nice thick rocky head. Aroma is lightly citric and spicy with a soft flinty minerally character. Soft spiciness and the beginning of a light zesty bony (is that a flavour?) dryness. It comes across like a beer with the beginning of brett character going on in it. Lemony citrusy flavour with a nice herbal hop flavour on the back. Man, this is another really nice seasonal form these guys. The malts are distinct, but so dry that they are hard to describe. Fresh pilsner malt flavour with just a mix of wheaty tartness, herbal hoppiness and a spicy/citrusy dry yeastiness. This might be the first beer in awhile where I’ll go back to get another growler.

On tap at Capones. Pours a translucent golden with a medium creamy white head that laced. Aroma was very floral, fruity, orange and other citrus, hoppy, bready and Belgian esters. Flavor was bready, Belgian spicy notes, hops, grassy, mixed citrus, floral. Reminded me of Houblon Chouffe and some of the other really hoppy Belgians...I liked it! Nice and dry but not sure I would call this a Saison.

11/7/2008 at Local Option. Clear golden with a two finger pillowy white head, fair retention. Lots of grassy herbal hops in the aroma, followed with some peach, pear, and Belgian yeast. Flavor is much the same with some added herbal hop notes. Still grassy and fruity through to the dry finish, bitterness peaked at a 3. Moderate carbonation with a light to medium body. Very good saison.