Thanks Doug.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a hazy burnt orange color with a nice sustaining finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated gently. Messy lace.
The aroma starts with some fresh piney/semi sprucy needles roaming into some breadiness and then some black pepper and white pepper. Lemongrass and sage compliment nicely.
The flavor leans to some sweet piney hops and sweet bready contours hit appropriately up front. The spices hit right for the balance. Sly bready sweet to semi-spiced aftertaste slyly moving into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it despite it’s ABV. It’s fairly smooth for the most part.
Overall, its basically an imperialized saison, but due to the ABV, and piney bitterness, that’s why it’s labeled as a DIPA on ratebeer. It’s good. I could have this again.