The Bruery Saison Rue

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Saison
Placentia, California USA

Brilliant sour farmhouse aroma. Somewhat too sweet for me personally and a little boozy. I was hoping it would be a bit dryer and a little more tart

Cloudy light amber with a big long lasting head. Wonderful wine like aroma of fruit with some yeasty bread, malt. Flavor is sweet up front with the nice sourness cleaning the palate. A hint of the rye is present. Very dry and warming finish.

Bottle. Orange-amber pour with a tall, thick, frothy white head. Pretty lacing on the glass as it recedes. Aroma is spicy and floral with big yeast notes, wet earth and straw. Some ripe fruit as well as caramel can be found. Taste is rather spicy with more straw and big yeast notes. Earthy hops dried fruit and even perhaps trail mix are evident as well. Body is light-medium and very bubbly with a lingering spiciness. Ends with a bigger fruit and floral flavor, mainly pear and melon, along with big Belgian yeast, spices, tart fruit/light acidic notes, and wet earth.

Pours a orange color with a huge amount of white head. Has spice, orange smell to it. The taste is of yeast, spice, and a little bit of brett.

Excellent carbonation keeps a thick sheet of fine bubbles on the top of this brew in my chalice. I love looking at Saisons in the glass. So active and visually interesting that it begs you to take a sip of this constantly circulating elixir. Spicy and slightly funky aroma with some tart berries, yeast and wet straw. Color is a hazy dark copper. Slightly dry and grainy flavor. Definately can note the rye presence. Yeasty with a bit of tartness, herbal flavors and some honey sweetness. Lively in the mouth with a bit of alcohol heat but it blends nicely with the somewhat thicker malt backbone than typical saisons. Finishes spicy with a hint of lingering tartness. A very good saison.

Bottle purchased at Friendly Mini Mart. Pour is a nice hazy amber color with a heap of foam on top. The aroma is a very lush grassy farmhouse yeast scent. Very fresh smelling with a hint of complex fruit to it. Flavor is fresh and still rather fruity. This manages to balance the blend of the earthy farmhouse flavor with a good balance of bitterness and finishing off with a rather robust fig, banana and grape complexity. Quite enjoyable.

Hazy apricot hue. Lemon and cherry brett aroma. With a little pine, sharp and adhesive like, medicinal.

Sparkly, bitter flavor; lots of pine and greenish fruits, leafy and earthy. Long bitter finish; too spritzy sometimes but mostly refreshing and fine.

Orange amber pour with lots of carbonation and a beautiful white frothy head. Aroma is lemon, orange, grapefruit, clove, rye malt, yeasty biscuit dough, and only a light touch of funk. Flavor is dry and very citrusy. A distinct acidity presents itself through lemon and grapefruit with a light cake like yeast quality prevailing as well. Brett character is more noticeable in the flavor, but light overall. Flavor is very effervescent with a dry but clean finish. Excellent Saison.