Bottle thanks to Team North Jersey. Pours a cloudy gold with small white head. The aroma is spruce, lemon zest, funk, oak. Medium body, lemon, funk, oak, nice tartness.

Bottle consumed on premise, 6/11/16.
Large, off-white head tops a bright golden-brass body. Retention is moderate-to-strong while clarity is lightly hazy.
White pepper, soft oak, lemon, nectarine and then kiwi for days on the finish. First kiwi beer, actually? Wow, I think so. Well, it’s awesome, unsurprisingly. What a perfect fruit, having both a strong tartness/acidity and also light sweetness, with overall dry, yet juicy flavors. I could see the base beer having just a touch less body; as is, there’s a lot of tannin and malt/wheat texture. High carbonation, but mostly tight, helps break some of this up and soft oranges, lemon notes and more kiwi linger on in to the moderately tart finish. Pretty good restraint on the critter element, with no extreme sourness (though certainly sour). Saison character even shows through, with more pepper and lots of plastery minerality.