Southampton Saison

Formerly brewed at Southampton Publick House
Style: Saison
Southampton, New York USA

Serve in Tulip

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2005 vintage shared by Chuck. The beer pours to a very hazy golden straw colored body with a nice white head. The aroma is nice lemons, lemongrass, and doughy bread. The flavor is minerals, lemons, grassy hops, and is slightly yeasty. Refreshing. The palate is refreshing and mineral laden. Medium-light body.

05 vintage Off yellowish colored pour lots of visable carbonation and a monster white thick head w/ some great lacing. Heavily fruity aroma lots of orange peel, lemon grass, some sweet sugars, and breads. Num Num aroma. Palate is well coated, fairly avg. Flavor is sweet breads, yeasts, some corriander, orange peel, hints of grass. Nice.

Bottle. Cloudy, fire-smoke golden color. 1" foam, evaporating quickly. Faintly yeasty, bark-like scent. Dry initial taste with throaty kick of bread, grain. Exquisite. Provided suprise and much joy to my mouth and body.

2005 Bottle; Nose of some tartness, yeast,,and light spices; hazy urine colored with a small white head; flavor has a light horse blanket, cloves, nutmeg, and corriander, and some grainy breadiness. Very good saison, I should have shared it with Odeed, this is one he might have tolerated!

From a caged corked 750 ml. bottle with a short blurb on the back label, no bottling/freshness date I could find, sampled at cellar temperature in a chalice. Poured a hazy orangey golden with a tight, creamy, foamy white head, good retention, a fair amount of laced sticking. Aromas of earthy, bready yeast, herbal spices, lemons and oranges, and sweet grainy malts. Good, airy carbonation to keep things light and a crisp, dryish, smooth light bodied mouthfeel. Nice, pleasant saison taste, earthy, spicy yeast, softly tart lemons and orange zest, dry herbs and a little dirty leafiness, sweet, grainy malts in the background that mixes with the alcohol, a slow warmth in the palate and a dry, spicy, herbal, malty finish. Good, easy lingering drinkability, another nice ale in the 750 series.

PA bottling. Medium to deep gold, very nice head. Aroma is floral perfume, orange blossom, and a hint of spice and bread, very nice. Bready malts are the start, moving slowly into a floral hop finish with some orange undertones. A bit of a perfume note as well. This is a very nicely made saison, and one of the better brews in my opinon from their contract brewed series.

(750ml bottle, 2005 vintage) Pours a cloudy golden body with a large white head. Aroma of lemon, mustiness, and light florals. Flavor of yeast, citrus, hops, and some sourness.

UPDATED: APR 3, 2009 Pours a light clear head with a frothy head. Aromas of bubblegum, yeast banana and a light citrus. flavors of bananas. spice, a mellow finish.

2005 bottle which seems a bit on the sour yeasty side but has good carbonation, a nice refined finish and some grassy sweetness to it with citrusy overtones. This is a pleasure for me as I first enjoyed wheat beers before ratebeer expanded my horizons. It has the citrus and spiciness I desire from summer beers with some complexity thrown in. Th spicy factor reminds me less of coriander but more of peppery spices.

2003 bottle. I was holding onto this for a while now. Finally, found the right oppurtunity to open this up with some great people at a little sour night thang. Wouldn’t think this would be sour but pleasantly surprised. Lots of nice tartness mixed with a lot of yeastiness. Very different from a fresh bottle. Still poured beautiful with a strong frothy head and a beautiful orange body. Farmhouse funk, tartiness, and yeastiness all mixed up with a nice sweetness. Mag-no-fic.