Peach as a Metaphor
Floodland Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.39
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Ale Fermented in Oak
Peach as a Metaphor is a blend of barrel-aged saison which was dry hopped with whole cone flowers.
The 2026 blend was made from two saison, one brewed with spelt and oats in February 2025, the other brewed with wheat and oats later that spring. The blend was assembled and then dry hopped in tank entirely with whole cone flowers grown in the Yakima Valley.
This beer was refermented to condition in the bottle.
Drink fresh. Do not age further.
Bottled 04/02/2026
Conditioned with: Organic sugar.
Cellar: This is very new in bottle, so please store it warm and upright until you are ready to consume and then give it a brief chill. I suggest drinking this fresh to get the full impact, but it should develop nicely over the next few months and I'd say the dry hop will be best this spring and early summer.
Drink before October 2026.
Peach as a Metaphor is a blend of barrel-aged saison which was dry hopped with whole cone flowers.
The 2026 blend was made from two saison, one brewed with spelt and oats in February 2025, the other brewed with wheat and oats later that spring. The blend was assembled and then dry hopped in tank entirely with whole cone flowers grown in the Yakima Valley.
This beer was refermented to condition in the bottle.
Drink fresh. Do not age further.
Bottled 04/02/2026
Conditioned with: Organic sugar.
Cellar: This is very new in bottle, so please store it warm and upright until you are ready to consume and then give it a brief chill. I suggest drinking this fresh to get the full impact, but it should develop nicely over the next few months and I'd say the dry hop will be best this spring and early summer.
Drink before October 2026.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Dullish pale, quite hazy, thin head. There's a lot of floral, leafy hop on the nose, bringing stone fruit, rambutan, pear...so nice. Clean pale malt, light yeastiness, I get the spelt in that. The hop goes between lychee, mandarin, leans into a bit of bitterness. Soft body, bright fruit on that hop expression. Floodland's first IPA!
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2026
at 04:25
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy golden orange with a medium white head. Aroma is dominated by intense floral dry-hopping, gentle essence of peach, rustic saison yeast, and plenty of oak. Flavour is remarkably aggressive on the hops, with big juicy peach (despite their lack of), rustic saison yeast, and gentle oak. Impressive to get that much juicy peach without any fruit; the hops are really damn impressive here. Excellent hoppy AF saison.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2026
at 04:11