Pizza Port SPF 45 Saison

2005 bottle shared by CaptainCougar at the DC Local Gathering. Pours a pale, orange amber with a thin, cloudy white head. Smells like a good oatmeal cookie, spices, ginger, sweet dough. Flavor has a slight sour pucker, spice, ginger, slight pepper, oranges, candied lemon peel. Finish is slightly salty, slightly sweet and slightly sour.

750ml aged bottle shared by CaptainCougar. Murky orange-brwon color. Crazy unique gingerbread aroma. Lots of ginger and herbal sweetness in the flavor. Very soft on the palate, with some black pepper as well. Fluffy and light. GIngerbread really comes through solidly to me, with some brown sugar smooth out by the funky, at times tart, herbs. Unique and quite enjoyable.

750ml bottle - Pours a very cloudy deep amber color with a medium sized thin off white head that quickly dissipates. Aroma has notes of basswood honey, apple cider, bay leaves, orange zest, candied giner, light caramel and mildly toasted oak. Flavor has continental malts, light caramel, seville oranges, tart apples, grains of paradise, apple cider vinegar. Finish is mildly tart and fairly dry. Overall a very interesting beer. Although I’m not that experienced with saisons, this doesn’t seem very traditional. Nevertheless, it is very unusual and fairly good.

Thank you Guy! for this treasure. This aged (unlabeled) 750 ml bottle poured murky like unfiltered cider with aroma of coconut and currants. Tastes like coconut oil and raisin paste, and I have to agree with Brad that this one tastes also like marzapan. Medium bodied and multi-layered; remarkable for undetectable hops or alcohol, while still not cloying and still balanced.

Huge thanks to Chris Quiroga for bringing this to the Sea Of Floydster tasting - one of the standouts of the night! Spicy, chamomile, light menthol, coconut in the aroma and the taste. Highly carbonated, but some wheat sort of body notes once the carbonation settled down. Tasted incredibly good - this beer has aged very well. Awesome. Oh, and yeah, really bad cork.

Pretty old 750ml thanks to Guy! An interesting brew. Pours a pale gold. Aroma is tart and sour with apple cider vinegar. Taste is not as tart as aroma would indicate, some tartness with some coconut lotion or marzapan, pepper, ginger, caramel, banana, dry finish, light on the hops. Definitely different, a lot going on here, a complex brew.

Bottle, sampled at Woodshop Quad. Pours a cloudy gold with a thick bubbly white head. Light aroma, of spices, malt, hops, and citrus. Taste is sharp and sparkly, of spices, malt, yeast, hops. Lingering sparkly sharpness. Very tasty.

Thanks to Chris! A big mix of varied sweets (malt, fruit, spice) ... age has intensely mellowed this... some earthy grit. Teeming w/ complexity and still drinking greatly. maybe i’ll see this again? Probably not. This was incredible