The Bruery Saison Rue

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Saison
Placentia, California USA

Serve in Tulip

A - pours cloudy dark dark golden with lasting high head. S - funk, yeast on the nose. Belgian yeast, sweet tarts. Sour dough bread, floral notes. M - creamy light sour medium bodied beer. Slight bitter alcohol warming end. T - bitter funk, yeast, bread on the nose. Caramel malts and floral notes on the palate. Light bretty funk ending. Vegetal and bretty through out. O - pretty good bretty saison. 6+

Bottled. Orange coloured. Unclear. Fluffy off White head. Aroma of flowers, yeats, sweetness, light sources, grape, citrus. Flavour of yeast, sourness, flowers, light fruits, citrus. Medium to full bOdied. Ends on a uelastisk, grapy and light sourness note. Hig bly drinkable despite the relatively High abc.

Saison Rue pours a cloudy light orange color. Head that pours is huge. Everytime I poured a new glass of this stuff the head would almost go over the top of the glass. Great pour. At first I didn’t pick up much of anything other then lemon and Belgian yeast. But as this got warmer the flavors just started to pop! A great musty, earthiness came through with spices, lemon, citrus, and apple. Fantastic smelling Saison. In the taste the lemon which I smelled a lot of in the smell takes a bit of a back seat to tart apples. A bit of sourness comes in. A bit of the barnyard funk as they say. Spicy and bitter notes come in next with a great yeasty flavor. A nice complex Saison. One of my favorites really. The mixture of the fruit (lemon, apple, and citrus) earthiness and funk really hit the spot. Mouthfeel is dry, crisp and light. One thing I did notice though is that in the beginning the mouthfeel is all of those three things I mentioned. But maybe half way through the bottle the mouthfeel changed a bit to more of a dead kind of beer. Less carbonation. Not that it ruined the beer at all for me. A little bit of heat comes through from the alcohol but not even close to enough to complain about.

I have been on something of a Rye trip lately. It started with sampling Rye IPAs first, and then several Rye Whiskies, and then I found this Rye Saison. The beer poured a pale golden color and formed a large, creamy looking head. The look was very similar to Duvel, but the strong musty Brett aroma let me know that I was sampling something else altogether. The smell had floral, tart, vinous character, perfect for a farmhouse ale. The taste was dusty dry, with Brett funk in the beginning of the sip. This was followed by a pear like flavor, and finished off with a peppery spiciness. There wasn’t much of a rye influence, as the Brett pretty much drove everything else into submission. The aftertaste was herbal with touch of juniper. Very light in the mouth, and easy to drink. The alcohol content was well hidden under these layers, and crept up on you with some warmth. Very good interpretation of the style.

Sampled at an esbls tasting. A funky nose with fruit. The flavor, too. This is nice with subtleties that make the beer.

Pours an off-orange with a thin white head. Aroma is spicy, Belgian yeast, earthy, some funk, bitter orange. Taste is spicy, earthy, rye, Belgian yeast. Very carbonated. Overall, really nice as for a Belgian ale.

(From notes) Bottle, sample @ The Bruery. Aroma is very fruity, sweet & sour. Flavor is lightly sweet & lightly sour. Rather strong for a saison (I’m used to Belgian style). Not unlike De Molen’s Ton Sur Ton.

Bottle. Pours a nice hazy yellow color with a white head. Aroma is of brett, spicy rye, a generic tropical fruit like aroma, lime and lemon notes, some funk in the way of barnyard like wet hay and white grapes. Aroma is again of brett and spicy rye with a light gingery note, again some lime and lemon notes, white grapes and barnyard funk and a soap like flavor. The body is medium with a dry mouthfeel. Overall an awesome American Saison, on par with Red Barn Ale.