Grüner Veltliner
Floodland Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.62
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Ale Fermented in Oak
Native Refermentation of Grapes from Johan Vineyards
Van Duzer Corridor
2024 harvest. This beer was made through a native fermentation of biodynamically grown Grüner Veltliner grapes from Johan Vineyards in the Van Duzer Corridor, Willamette Valley.
The grapes were destemmed and crushed before refermenting with long-aged spelt saison, buckwheat saison, and barley saison. Press running and skin contact components were aged separately in barrel and tank before being reunited in the final blend.
The beer was refermented to condition in the bottle.
Bottled 01/16/2025
Conditioned with: Organic sugar.
Cellar: The grape beers tend to hold up well, I expect this will drink best for the next 18 months, and really it should hold up for years. Best by summer 2027.
Native Refermentation of Grapes from Johan Vineyards
Van Duzer Corridor
2024 harvest. This beer was made through a native fermentation of biodynamically grown Grüner Veltliner grapes from Johan Vineyards in the Van Duzer Corridor, Willamette Valley.
The grapes were destemmed and crushed before refermenting with long-aged spelt saison, buckwheat saison, and barley saison. Press running and skin contact components were aged separately in barrel and tank before being reunited in the final blend.
The beer was refermented to condition in the bottle.
Bottled 01/16/2025
Conditioned with: Organic sugar.
Cellar: The grape beers tend to hold up well, I expect this will drink best for the next 18 months, and really it should hold up for years. Best by summer 2027.
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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL bottle, pours an opaque golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out musty grape skins, wild yeast, and oak. Flavour is super complex, with lots of bugs, white wine grape must, oak, tannins, and some toasted grains. Vinous, buggy, and wonderfully cohesive. Fantastic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2026
at 07:15
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pale, with a bright vinous aroma. The base saison is showing through well. On the palate, it's got a decent vinous character, and a lean saison note. Mild brett, and a soft pale malt, great complexity to this one. Well-balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2026
at 07:09
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazed blonde with small white head. Light floral grapes, very light spelty buckwheat almost lemony base, soft bugs, very easy drinking. ABV hidden. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2026
at 05:15
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL bottle. Pours murky yellow with a white head. Great saison yeast expression, good funk, and wine grapes on the nose. Flavour has a great saison yeast character, big grape skins and white wine character, nice level of tannins. This is a fantastic grape saison.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2026
at 03:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
750ml (thx, Josh for helping with bringing it!) @ Ryan's shared with Phill.
Aroma: nice farmhouse notes, with some pleasant fruity funk.
Taste: along the same Iines, nice, quite assertive. Maybe has a litrle bit more oak notes than I would prefer.
Overall: good one.
Aroma: nice farmhouse notes, with some pleasant fruity funk.
Taste: along the same Iines, nice, quite assertive. Maybe has a litrle bit more oak notes than I would prefer.
Overall: good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2026
at 02:30