Arctic Soirée
Grassroots Brewing in Greensboro Bend, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Anchorage Brewing CompanyBrewed at/by: Anchorage Brewing Company
Farmhouse - Saison Special Out of Production
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Score
7.22
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Ale fermented and aged in French oak tanks with Brettanomyces, lime juice and hibiscus.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Tart lemon and lime with an herbal note and tropical fruit. Clear orange pink with a decent white head. Citrus rind, tart and sour with a bit of funky yeast and a pepper finish. A bit juice like but a nice peppery finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2014
at 15:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle. Hazy, pinkish, orangey golden colour with small to average, frothy, half-way lasting and lacing, pinkish off-white head. Moderate, relatively "clean" bretty aroma, fruity hints of lime and hibiscus. Taste is slightly dry, minimally tart, bretty, notes of the lime and hibiscus ingredients. Nice, sober, engineer’d (more culture than nature, concerning yeast and everything else).
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2014
at 07:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at the RBESG 2014, grand tasting 09/08/2014. Pink / orange coloured pour with a small white head. Nice lemon sorbet, foral, parma violets. Flavour is grapefruit, floral, elderflower, honey suckle. Palate is crisp, light, with high carbonation. Nice dry finish. Very delicious and nuanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2014
at 13:59
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
750 ml. bottle sampled @ Firestone Walker Tasting. Procured @ De Hopduvel. Pale hibiscus, pink appearance, almost no head. Nose is watery grapefruit, watery hibiscus, flower, light lime, weak brett, watered down lime. Taste is watery grapefruit juice, lime, watery hibiscus, faint brett,.. Watery body like diluted grapefruit juice. Weak, weak,… this is reminiscent of a radler. Hill Farmstead is the Fantôme of USA & I do not mean that in a positive way. These guys reputation baffles me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 15:17
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Grassroots Arctic Soirée (by Grassroots Brewing):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 9/20, MyTotalScore: 2.4/5
19/X/14 - 75cl bottle @ Beuk's postponed Firestone Walker and other nice beers allowed as well tasting (Brussels) - BB: n/a, batch I, NOV 2013 (2014-1226) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Cloudy grapefruit kind of pink coloured beer, aery white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: dirty, veal roast (or cooked veal), pretty off, some grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: weird, sourish, hibiscus tea, little bitter, fruity touch, grapefruit bitterness. Aftertaste: bit metallic, banana peel, grapefruit skin, lemon rind, weird stuff, tea. Nope, nope, nope... And stop calling it a saison if you dump all sorts of weird stuff in it. This should be under vegetable/spice or fruit beer, if you ask me.
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 9/20, MyTotalScore: 2.4/5
19/X/14 - 75cl bottle @ Beuk's postponed Firestone Walker and other nice beers allowed as well tasting (Brussels) - BB: n/a, batch I, NOV 2013 (2014-1226) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Cloudy grapefruit kind of pink coloured beer, aery white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: dirty, veal roast (or cooked veal), pretty off, some grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: weird, sourish, hibiscus tea, little bitter, fruity touch, grapefruit bitterness. Aftertaste: bit metallic, banana peel, grapefruit skin, lemon rind, weird stuff, tea. Nope, nope, nope... And stop calling it a saison if you dump all sorts of weird stuff in it. This should be under vegetable/spice or fruit beer, if you ask me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 13:04
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml. corked @ home on the terrace. [ As Grassroots Arctic Soiree ].Clear medium to dark red orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, moderate to light heavy flowers, hibiscus, moderate yeasty, horse blanket - farmyard - leather (brett). Flavour is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart - semi geuze alike, hibiscus sweet, sugary sweet, dry, farmyard, dry oak - wood. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is lively. [20140722]
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2014
at 09:12