The Bruery Saison de Lente

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Saison
Placentia, California USA

Hazy gold. Huge, dense white head. Aroma is earthy and rustic with fresh grains, light sourness, mild bitterness, and plenty of barn. Flavor adds some spicy notes and some soft malt. Finish is dry and bitter with some funk. Medium body is perfectly carbonated. I could drink this all day long. Easily on the top tier of American saisons.

An excellent beer. Pours pale yellow with a voluminous head that dissipated rather quickly. Aroma is thick, sticky, spicy noble hops and some spiciness that I would attribute to the yeast. Taste is surprisingly bitter and hoppy (even though I had heard that it is already). Might be a little more interesting if aged out a bit. Very rustic and interesting character. Quite refreshing and tasty. Another good offering from The Bruery.

Sample at Fête bière et saveurs. Hazy yellow with a medium head. Ok rentention. Nose is very bretty, some yeast esters, hints of mango maybe. Taste is brett, yeast esters. Some hints of banana and hops. Finish is a bit dry and bitter. Very well balanced brew. Delightful. I need to have it again ! Carbonation is faint.

Bu à la Fête Bière et Saveur 2009, le 5 septembre. Blonde miel brumeuse, petit collet. Arome d’herbe malté, avec des notes d’aspérine. Goût d’herbe sec, très médical, un peu amère mais très sec. Intéressant!?

Sample from bottle at Festival Bière et Saveur 09.09.04 : Poured dark yellow with small head excellent lacing and is a bit cloudy. The body is medium the carbonation is soft with a short bitter finish. The acidity is balanced with citrusy note I can smell herbs. A nice quaffing brew.

Bottle from HopHead22, thanks man! Poured a slightly hazy bright yellow color with an inch and a half thick, dense white head that slowly receded and left some rings of fine lacing. Very nice aroma that included some dry apricot, some dusty straw, a lightly funky yeastiness, and some lightly spicy, floral hops. Crisp, somewhat prickly entry with some lightly tart orange flesh that transitioned into a lightly spicy, earthy yeast funkiness that bordered on a light leathery flavor that gave way to a lightly bitter hoppiness with soft undertones of dry apricot that lingered into the finish. Delicate carbonation and easy drinking. Overall, a well done and enjoyable saison, it was just missing something to break into the upper-tier.

750 ml bottle poured a clear golden yellow with a lasting creamy white head. Aromas of straw, citrus, light horseblanket and a hint of pine. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of straw, grapefruit rind, light spice and a hint of barnyard funk with a crisp dry lingering bitter finish.

My Bottom Line:
Tropical fruit, bready cereals, spicy yeast and the controlled wilderness of brettanomyces unite and stay playful until the very end of each sip where herbal, earthy hop bitterness peeks. This is a wonderfully complex and quaffable Saison.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A tower of foam dissipates to a veil on top of the misty golden, lacing nicely all the way down.
-The fruitiness is expressive, reaching guava and mango-like form at times.
-Carbonation is quite soft, making this very drinkable.
-This is beautifully rustic throughout, nuanced, flavorful, and quenching. What more can you ask for in the style?

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