750mL bottle drunk 2/2/26, as pictured.
Smokey and woody, nice mix of both. Almost a bit of iodine and deep black pepper. Old, dried peaches, leathery and tart, all of this distracting from the potential saison character, but with rustic grains emerging. There's an almost honey or maple-like sweetness on the end. Doesn't smell like a saison to me, but it does smell very interesting.
Woody as hell with an ultra-dry, lightly peppery, lightly peaty woodsmoke character and a fair bit of very highly attenuated malt. Fruity peach as an afterthought, just like the yeast/culture, which doesn't really establish itself much here. There's a fun mix of maplewood, smoked maplewood, maple syrup and even some light bourbon, but there just isn't enough malt flavor (and barely enough texture), nor hardly any yeast/mixed culture character. That said, the peaches themselves aren't overdone and this is 2.5 years old, so attenuation is to be expected and it's not over-attenuated, at least (but getting there).