Off Color Brewing Aqua Predator

Aqua Predator

 

Off Color Brewing in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  Farmhouse - Saison Autumn
Score
6.86
ABV: 6.5% IBU: 30 Ticks: 7
Aqua Predator gets totally submerged in wet hops (or at least as much as our makeshift hop back could hold). Lemongrass dominates the nose while a melon tang finishes to a hop oil vapor.

Secret Techniques: Aqua Predator Wet Hopped Saison is brewed with 100 pounds (per 20 barrel turn) of hops picked by our friends at Hop Head Farms in Michigan in the morning, shuttled to us, and placed in a makeshift hopback in the afternoon brew. The completely unprocessed hops add fresh grass and unique citrus notes to our base farmhouse ale.

Ingredients: Pils, Flaked Wheat, Honey Malt, Nugget, Sterling, Freshly harvest “wet” hops from Hop Head Farms
 

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6.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Draught @ One Lake Brewing (Sept 2024). Clear greenish gold color with a frothy off-white head, very faint grain aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter lightly yeasty malt taste, thin body, long finish. Not very flavorful, a bit thin.
Tried from Draft at One Lake Brewing on 31 Jul 2025 at 16:20

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap at Off Color - The Mousetrap, pours a clear blonde with a medium white head. Aroma brings out fresh floral hops, rustic saison yeast, and gentle earthy notes. Flavour is rustic and freshly hoppy, with earthy hops, rustic saison yeast and hay. Bright and barnyardy. Good stuff.
Tried from Draft on 23 Sep 2023 at 03:33

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can at Mousetrap. Pours a hazy gold with small white head that lasts. The aroma is citrus, floral, yeast. Slick body, yeast, lemon zest, light dry finish, very good.
Tried from Can on 23 Oct 2022 at 20:20

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Canned, 473 ml, courtesy of Pete. Hazy yellow with medium white head. Yeasty, spicy, some fruity citrus notes. Medium bodied.
Tried from Can on 21 Nov 2021 at 22:29

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pour looks like apple juice with a small white head. Aroma is a minor yeast ester with some apple and caramel. Flavor is toasted grain with citrus hops out in front with a decent ester. This was decent. Kind of a rustic saison with some new world hops.
Tried on 28 Nov 2020 at 21:05

7.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can from Livonia Liqour. Pours a clear, glowing pear gold with a finger of white foam that dissipates. Faint muscat, pear and banana aromas on the nose. Crisp and clean on the palate with more of the pear and banana notes with bitter, peppery hop flavors. Lingering peppercorn and banana on the finish.
Tried from Can from Livonia Liquor & Fine Wine on 18 Oct 2020 at 17:19

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Adam, thanks! Pours a clear yellow gold with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has notes of flora, light spice, and light fruits with a bit of light grains underlying. Flavor has lots of straw and grass with some light fruits and a bit of Belgian yeast underlying.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2016 at 23:47