Fleur de Myrtille
Four Quarters Brewing in Winooski, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.59
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft - pours orange gold - nose/taste of lavender, florals, blueberry, honey and lemongrass - medium body.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Fleur de Myrtille from Four Quarters Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Draught at EBF, 2/5/16.
Bright orange-rust liquid shows very light clarity, though it’s not cloudy/soupy or anything. Beige head immediately recedes to nothing.
Lots of lavender in the nose, with bright blueberry acids and sugars, and very little in the way of Belgian/saison character. Perhaps some underlying earthiness and a touch of floral character, but it’s tough to discern much as the adjuncts are very dominant here.
In the mouth, it’s got a somewhat loose carbonation with a blueberry sweetness and moderate acidity balancing. Lavender is quite strong as well, though the honey seems fully fermented and leaves only light floral and spicy notes behind. Again, very difficult to discern what the underlying beer is here. I enjoy the flavors they’ve extracted from the blueberry and lavedner, but it’s overdone for such a light base beer. Almost comes off as shandy-like given the acidity and strong fruit flavors.