Summit Unchained 07 Honeymoon Saison

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

Serve in Tulip

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Unfiltered Orange, Good Head, Lots Of Lacing. Citrus, Yeast, Malt and Hops but no sign of Honey. Decent.

Cloudy pale amber body with a thick lasting white head. Decent aroma of honey and spice (pepper?). Very bright palate loaded with carbonation. The flavor is similar to the aroma but a little better. Sweet and smooth up front with some honey flavor. It finishes with a nice peppery bite. A decent beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Lemon and citrus notes, noticeable honey flavor. Some pepper notes shone through as well

Bottle. Moderate malt aroma of grain, lemon for the hops, light to moderate bearnyard and musty for the yeast with un-ripe peach and honey in the background. Head is large, fizzy, white with fair lacing and is mostly lasting. Color is hazy, medium amber. Flavor starts heavily acidic, and sour, then finishes moderately acidic and bitter. Palate is light to medium, dry, with a fizy carbonation. This is a very refreshing and sprtely Saison with a nice crisp finish.

Taken from old notes. Lemon and citrus nose. Taste is the same with some honey in there. Nice and tart and refreshing.

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.

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.

Sampled at GTMW ’11. This is a hoppy saison at an utterly reasonable abv, so already it is saying all the right things to me. Floral and grassy in the nose, rather bitter and dry, well attenuated. The honey character is there in the backdrop. Rather clean profile, but that’s fine with me (and normal for one or two French farmhouse yeasts). I love an American-made saison that is not afraid to be a hoppy, dry, quenching beer.

Bottle; Pour is murky gold with a decent fine bubbled white head in this glass. It retains well, and has some light and spotty lacing present. The nose is fruity, and definitely overly sweet for the style. There is some apple skins present, sure. The flavor profile doesn’t improve much for me; some soap, light spiciness, fruity notes of citrus and apple; it’s a bit too bitter, a bit too fruity, a bit too sweet ; overall, it doesn’t work for me.

The 12 bottle was courtesy of strykzone. Poured a cloudy orange with a white head. Nose of candy and yeast. Medium body. OK mouthfeel but a bit acrid. Flavor is barnyard but mild with some sourness in the finish. This is a bit of a muddle for the style, but was drinkable and refreshing in spite of all the comments above.