Shady Oak Barrel House Groovalistic

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Shady Oak Barrel House in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Farmhouse - Saison Regular
Score
6.67
ABV: - IBU: - Ticks: 11
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7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
750 ml. bottle from Berkeley Bowl. It pours a mostly clear, very pale yellow color with a medium/large white head that shrinks quickly. The aroma jumps out as funky and dank with some noticeable notes of earthy celery root, cheese, light sulfur and some lemony/tangerine citrus. The flavor is lightly tart, but mostly funky, dank and bitter. Very light bodied with almost no malt influence. It starts with some hints of lemon and and some pithy citrus rind followed by more earthy dank bitterness. The bitterness is kind of on the strong side and lingers in the finish along with some light plastic brett phenols, but not too overbearing. The fluffy, funky yeast character keeps things interesting, but I’m not getting much depth other than overt funk. Overall, this was a fun beer that balanced the hop and brett pretty well. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but could’ve used more expressive Sac yeast character.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2015 at 11:13