Summit Unchained 07 Honeymoon Saison

Formerly brewed at Summit Brewing Company
Style: Saison
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

Serve in Tulip

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(Draught) Pours a lightly hazy yellow body with a medium white head. Aroma of mustiness, herbs, florals, and grass. Flavor of grass, earth, honey, yeast, and florals with a moderately dry finish.

Draft. Poured clear amber with an average fizzy white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Medium yeasty fruit and spice aroma. Medium body with a tingly texture and soft carbonation. Medium spice sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. This beer met my expectations.

My Bottom Line :
This Saison’s spicy hop bite, doughy yeast and tropical fruitiness evolve in a comfortable mouthfeel yet can’t seem to gel with a roaming tartness.

Further Personal Perceptions :
-A pillowy head of foam dwindles into the cloudy beige.
-Tartness and an unbalanced spicy hop bitterness tend to clash in the aftertaste.
-Malt flavors are quite coarse, a bit like some Frontenac malts in Quebec.
-Mild banana esters undermine citrusy edges.
-This has a lot of flavor, but the whole is not as united as it could be.

Bottle.

Bottled. Poured slightly cloudy golden with a short-lived white head. The aroma picked up sweet lighter fruits and honey with peppery and quasi-vinous yeasty notes around.. seemed a little heavy-handed and off-balance. The flavor found vanilla, spicy notes, and a hint of vanilla laced throughout.. darker honey and less bready notes for support.. finished tacky and spicy. Light-medium bodied with high carbonation on the palate.. too sugary to be refreshing.. just OK.

355mL courtesy of OldSock aka The Mad Fermentationist. Pours a clear gold with a decent white head. Small lace. Very sweet, sugary nose. Taste is mildly bitter, nutty, doughy, and some oddities like saltwater, chamomile, squash. Overly herbal and much too sweet for any beer. Wildly too sweet for saison.

In short: A clean, semi-dry, semi-rustic blonde ale with grassy/spicy hops. Nice session beer.
How: Bottle 12oz. Consumed when approximately 6 to 9 months of age, bottle sent to me by oakbluff, thanks a lot Scott
The look: Partly cloudy dark blonde body topped by a persistent small white head
In long: Nose is slightly rustic with some spicy/grassy hops and notes of sweet fruity esters. Taste has crisp crackery cereals and it and the attack does have some honey. But it is quickly brought down by the spicy dry grassy hops and the rustic dusty yeast. The finish is rather dry, a bit spicy. Carbonation is a bit too prickly, too much like a soda-pop. This is a nice session beer overall, very clean, very crisp, the kind of straightforward semi-dry blonde ale that one can drink all night long. Deserves better than its shitty ratings. And the worst thing about a real honeymoon is that you are now married and are therefore you are now sleeping with your relatives, and that’s sick.

This had a clear light bronze body with a tall rocky head and thick lace. The aroma had a floral sweetness with an undertone of zest. Very livefly, spritzy mouthfeel. The flavor had a soft grainy sweetness outbalanced by a floral/peppery/zesty bitterness. The finish was dry with a prolonged moderate bitterness. Very drinkable and refreshing and should be put in Summitt’s regular line-up.

Picked up single 12-oz bottle from Heritage Liquors in Maplewood, MN. Pours a clear golden pale colored brew with a fast dissolving off-white head that leaves behind a film top and white ring. Aroma of golden grain malt, floral hops, a hint of vanilla, white pepper and apple. Taste is medium bodied, dry golden grain malt, some bitter yeast, and grassy hops. Finish is semi-dry with a saison yeast aftertaste with some spearmint, honey and grassy hop flavor, followed by a lingering white pepper flavor. A little bit multi-directional but still has a saison profile.

Draught at Whole Foods Devon- Aroma of fruit, citrus, tangerine, pear, flowers, spice, grains, Saison yeast, and pepper. Poured amber in color with a medium-sized, creamy, dense, white head that greatly diminished but lasted throughout. Slightly hazy. Slightly sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet, lightly bitter, and spicy. Tastes of grains, Saison yeast, spice, pepper, slight fruit, hops, and clove. Medium body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Fruit, pepper, clove, Saison yeast finish is dry.

Really spicy saison here. It is light in color and has a slight hint of fruitiness.