Off Color Brewing Apex Predator

Apex Predator

 

Off Color Brewing in Chicago, Illinois, United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

  Farmhouse - Saison Regular
Score
7.22
ABV: 6.5% IBU: 35 Ticks: 98
Farmhouse Ale

When you brew as much as we do, sometimes we get tired of telling the yeast what to do. For Apex Predator Farmhouse Ale, we pitch the yeast cold, turn off the temperature control, and let the yeast do it's thing. To our delight, it spat out the sweet scent of juicy fruit wafting from a frothy, white mane. Brewed only with grain and sugar unencumbered by the heat of the kiln, we create a hazy, golden body. Apex Predator gets its teeth from a generous Crystal dry-hopping that completes the dry finish with a fruity bite. Pounce on the opportunity to let it part your lips and you may find yourself at the top of the food chain.

Malts: Pils and Flaked Wheat
Hops: Crystal and Sterling
Secret Techniques: Free rise fermentation and prey selection
 

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7.8/10 โ€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Elizabeth Station, Bellingham
Cloudy blond color; medium sized head. Strange aroma, original; bready, flowery, crackery, very deep; there is elderflower and passion fruit. Dry mouthfeel; nice spicy flavor, coriander, citrus peel (tangerine and cedar); a bit astringent in the end.
Very good.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2014 at 23:56

8/10 โ€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
12 oz. bottle, pours a cloudy pale golden with a small white head. Aroma is on the hoppier side, with citra hops, dry grains, more dry hops, and farmhouse yeast. Flavour is also on the hoppier side, with delicious dry juicy citra hops, a medium Belgian yeast component, and a dry biscuity malt backing. Fantastic balance, with great hopping and complex yeasts. Excellent beer.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2014 at 23:37

7.2/10 โ€” Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
12 oz. bottle purchased at Winooski Beverage Warehouse, VT. Color is an unfiltered straw color. Aroma is peppery yeast and mild citrus. Kind of herbal.

The flavor leans on the herbal side with citrus a secondary note. The body is on the fuller side with some chewy yeast. The texture is really dry with a dusty straw and dusty wheat finish. Overall you can certainly find more complex brews in this style but this is a nice example of more classic rendition.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Sep 2014 at 07:40

7/10 โ€” Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Draught @ CBC 2014 [ Blue Session ]. - Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014, Sparta Hallen, Gunnar Nu Hansens Plads 11, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [ As Off Color Apex Predator ].Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity, tropical fruit, light to moderate hoppy - yeasty. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart tropical fruit - juicy tangerine, fresh. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20140502]
Tried on 06 Sep 2014 at 03:43

6.1/10 โ€” Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Tap at CBC 2014. Golden in the glass, small head. Mild malty-sourish aroma. Starts mild, quite malty, more and more wheaty-dry. Finish dry-malty. A bit boring.
Tried from Draft on 02 Sep 2014 at 05:44

6.3/10 โ€” Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014. A nice bright golden looking slightly clouded one with a good looking white medium sized really lacing white head. Citrus on the nose. Also tones of lemons, lots of oranges, wheat sweetness and a loud grassy kick. Not bad at all, fresh. It's mild oily in the mouth and just above average on the bubbles. Lots grapefruit citrus in the taste. Also, it's really astringent with a month drying sensation after a while. Hay and lemons. Well, I really enjoyed the aroma but to taste did not completely match it. Still... 02.05.2014
Tried from Draft on 28 Aug 2014 at 04:22

6.5/10 โ€” Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Draft at Churchkey. Clear golden color, white head. Aroma of funky lemon. Taste is bitter lemon on a background of pepper and hay.
Tried from Draft on 26 Aug 2014 at 17:44

7.9/10 โ€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
The beer is a pale golden color. Itโ€™s quite cloudy. They head is big, fluffy and white. Good lacing, retention. A nice layer sticks around for quite awhile. The aroma is a mix fruity and farmhouse flavors. Thereโ€™s fruit from hops and yeast. Tangerine, apricot, honeysuckle, mango. Pleasantly sweet and interesting. Subtler farmhouse dustiness, mostly in the background. Mouthfeel is very gentle and full. Distinctly similar to Troublesome. Gives the taste a gentle, full character. The taste is moderately sweet with fresh grain. The fruit shows up strong. Firm bitterness, particularly in the finish. Mild farmyard flavor, mild funk. Interesting mix of flavors. The mouthfeel is really key to this beer, and I hope itโ€™s a hallmark of Off Color. The beer is soft and easy to drink with lots of flavor. Tasty.
Tried on 14 Aug 2014 at 21:29

6.8/10 โ€” Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Tap@Pudel, Tallinn. Pours cloudy golden-amber with small off-white head. The head doesnโ€™t stay. Aroma is fruity, grapefruit, and belgian yeast. Flavor is fruity, citrus, grapefruit, some sweetness, and malt. Finish is sweet and grapefruit bitter. Overall: nice.
Tried from Draft on 07 Aug 2014 at 11:44

8.1/10 โ€” Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Keg at the Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014, blue session. 02/05/2014. Nice bright golden / orange coloured pour with a fluffy white head. Aroma is earthy, pineapple brett, straw. Flavour is composed of funky brett, and nice pineapple fruits, maybe some brett c. Lovely palate is effervescent, light and evaporates of the tonge to leave a dry finsh. Really good funky saison.
Tried on 04 Aug 2014 at 13:35