Burdock Kasu Melone

Kasu Melone

 

Burdock in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Farmhouse - Saison Regular
Score
7.14
ABV: 7.9% IBU: - Ticks: 4
Mixed-fermentation saison aged on sake kasu (spent rice/lees) from the Izumi Sake Brewery in 600L wooden vessels then aged in stainless steel with Honeydew melons. Bottle conditioned.
 

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
375mL bottle, pours a hazy pale golden blonde with a small white head. Nose brings out alcoholic notes from the sake, melon notes, and a little chardonnay. Flavour is quite alcoholic, with a sake-like heat, musty farmhouse notes, and a touch of melon. It's a bit chaotic and boozy, so it lacks the cohesion that Burdock beers are known for. But it's a kooky idea that they manage to do fairly well. Solid experimental beer.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2021 at 04:38

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Cloudy gold with a small white head. Stone fruit and light funk. Funky, grainy, stone fruit and a tart note.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2020 at 23:20

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
375ml (thx, Eric D.!) @ home on 37th birthday during COVID-19 quarantine. Appearance: hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: nice wild notes, with some slight barrel notes. Taste: along the same lines, there is definitely some fruity notes, and quite a lot of honeydew in the aftertaste. Overall: good one.
Tried on 22 Mar 2020 at 05:25

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(375ml bottle from the brewery bottleshop) Pours fairly hazy pale gold with a small rapidly dissipating white head and no lace. Aroma of beautifully sweet and fresh honeydew melon, white wine grape, candied lemon, soft pit fruit, nice woody overtones, subtle funk and maybe a little saison yeast. Flavour is rather dry, with light sweet and light tart components, melon more prominent while cold, increasingly vinous while warm. Clear white wine character, candied lemon accents, moderate oak, some nice complex yeast profile, a little sake to it when warm, good acidity through the finish, slightly dusty in the aftertaste, lingering wine and melon hits. Fairly light-bodied, average carbonation. Really beautiful and interesting, perhaps the nicest melon I've had in a beer, good wine/sake vibes here.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2020 at 20:07