Sahati
(has 2 batches)
The Ale Apothecary in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer Regular|
Score
7.47
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Inspired by the Finnish brew known as Sahti, this is a variation of this ancient beverage. Brewed with Mecca Grade Vanor and rye malts, aged Cascade Hops from Goschie Farms, and our own yeast culture and house sour wort, Sahati gets resin and citrus notes from spruce branches harvested on the brewery property.
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8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to bauermj, shared at the Homer "welcome to California" tasting. Pours hazy butterscotch, small white head, decent lacing. Aroma is quite vinous - white wine, funk, basement and dank leaves, oak tannins, herbal notes. Flavor is light sweet and medium funky, light tartness as well. Juniper and spruce, tartar sauce (!?!?), lots of barrel influence. Medium body, champagnelike carbonation. This is a nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2014
at 12:56
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Prufrockstar. Shared at weekly tasting. Pours orange gold white head. Nose/taste of brett, juniper, tree bark, spruce/pine needle, earth, lightly soured medicine and citrus peel. Medium, body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2014
at 20:16
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Memorial day weekend Saturday night at home watching baby and dogs so time to break out big guns. Been searching out Sahti for awhile so super stoked on this. Pours hazy dirty orange with big sudsy white head. Nose is huge funk, pine needles, barnyard (with touch of the stables), and citrus. Tastes of juniper berries, spruce, briney, herbal, apricots, lemon juice, yogurt, and some vinous notes. Its highly carbonated quite dry and justnright amount of sour. Palate is slightly harsh in a nice way. Killer beer want to try more from this brewery.
Tried
on 24 May 2014
at 19:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Culmination Fest: Poured a golden clear with a white fluffy head. Aroma was sour with fruit and earthy funk. Taste was a mixture of berries, fruity hops, earthy, spice and finished sticky. Another beer where the nose and taste do not match as you would think, which makes it a very pleasant beer to try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2014
at 11:36
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Olive bottle, 750 ml, batch Nov 22 2013, purchased at Belmont Station on January 18 2014, savoured on April 27 2014; eye: caramel with a golden hue, hazy, voluminous white head that turns into a thin sheet, light lacing; nose: sourness, acidity, musk, wild yeasts, green apple, citrusy, pine; mouth: sourness, acidity, wild yeasts, green apple, musk, refreshing, citrusy, slight juniper, pine, sour finale with presence of acidity, medium body, quite carbonated, slick texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 750 ml, 7,9 %, lot Nov 22 2013, achetée chez Belmont Station le 18 janvier 2014, savourée le 27 avril 2014; œil : caramel avec une teinte dorée, trouble, mousse blanche volumineuse qui se transforme en une mince couverture, légère dentelle; nez : aigreur, acidité, musc, levures sauvages, pomme verte, citrique, pin; bouche : aigreur, acidité, levures sauvages, pomme verte, musc, rafraîchissante, citrique, très léger genièvre, pin, finale aigre avec présence d’acidité, corps moyen, plutôt carbonatée, texture coulante; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2014
at 14:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
January 2014 batch. Aroma is rather phenolic with lots of coriander, pepper, lemongrass and citrus. Light poopy note that disappears pretty quickly. Light citrus and moderate pine notes. Pours a pale, cloudy orange gold with a medium sized, moderately thick, white head that shows pretty decent retention. Light lacing and small legs. Flavor has a medium light acidity with some lemon and citrus notes. Quite a bit of juniper and pine notes along with a lot of phenolic notes of coriander, pepper and lemongrass. Light bitterness and a faint butter note. Mouthfeel is medium to medium full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall a really nice beer with a lot of phenolic notes and wood character. Complimentary citrus notes help balance the phenolics.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2014
at 17:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ What the Funk Denver 2014. Pours a hazy golden orange appearance with a thin white head. Some cheese in the nose along with a bunch of earth and floral notes. More earth in the flavor. Light citrus. Some spiciness herbal notes. Finishes pretty smooth. Kind of a fun beer but not as good as some others I’ve had from The Ale Apothecary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Apr 2014
at 20:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
750 ml bottle. Pours gold with light to moderate head. Initial big sulphur aromas followed by burnt rubber, citrus and earth. Flavors of lemons, thai spices, and evergreens. Sharp and refreshing. Luckily the flavors recover for the less than inspiring nose. Unique but not worth $33.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2014
at 21:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy yellow with a quickly-dissipating white head. Aroma smells like farts - seriously, like ass, with some notes of earth, tar and sulphur. Flavour is thankfully not as offensive, with notes of sulphur, rotten buttered popcorn and light wine barrels. Finishes with twigs and earth. For something that smells so putrid, it tastes rather good. Well-balanced, and thankfully not too much of the farty sulphur. What a unique ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2014
at 20:55