Eleanor
Fair Isle Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.44
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Eleanor is dry farmhouse ale with notes of pinot noir grapes, pomegranate, cherries and raspberries followed by cinnamon and clove and finishes with earthy undertones. Our friend and ethnobotanist, Alex Harwell, harvested the elderberries from the Cascades last summer and through the help of friends gathering at Fair Isle, we hand processed the berries and added them to our oak-aged stock farmhous ale.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Aromas are a nice blend of yeast, sour and elderberries. Flavors aren't quite as good. Yeast and sour comes out more and elderberries recede.
Tried
from Bottle
from Tavour
on 06 Mar 2024
at 18:35
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pale salmony pink colour. Medium head. Tart, medium acidic, woody, big salmonberry, smoky tayberry jam sort of character. Complex.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2024
at 05:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Ale Arsenal. Really restrained aroma. A bit of black tea, clover and slight nutmeg and faint clove. Pours garnet-brown with ivory head that rings around the glass with small bubbles. Flavor is leather and horse blanket, slight red fruit. Finishes very dry with moderate tartness. A bit understated and subdued, but also delicate. The flavor was a bit of a surprise, and in a nice way.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Jan 2024
at 05:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from the tap. Hazy reddish brown with small white head. Soft elderberry, a touch floral, seems a little under carbonated, okay.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Sep 2023
at 01:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear pinkish red, medium off white head, decent lacing. Aroma is tart berries, funk, basement, hint of mushroom. Flavor is light plus tart, medium funk. Medium body. Not my favorite from these guys 4,7,7,4,14
Tried
on 25 Mar 2023
at 19:12
7/10
Hazy red body medium foamy off white head. Spicy fruit aroma. Fruit floral spicy flavor. Light body moderate carbonation. 7/3/8/4/15 3.7
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jan 2023
at 15:28
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375mL bottle, pours a deep rose red with a small white head. Aroma brings out gently tart elderberries, rustic saison yeast, and some wild bugs. Flavour is gently tart and funky, with tart elderberry, some rustic saison yeast, and gentle oak. Complex and well-integrated. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2022
at 05:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Small pink head over cyclamen red beer. Red fruit & berries nose, quite intense, bit of velvet. Wry berry flavour, a whiff of camphor, wild yeasts, elderberry syrup, cobblers' smell. Light to medium bodied, acidthinning and -burn. Original, nice. Quite dry and yet very fruity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2022
at 09:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml. bottle. @Quintela, Láncara. 24/07/2022 [#5.262 Global - #788 United States of America - #1 Fair Isle Brewing (My Brewery #228 from the States)] Pours burgundy with a pinkish head. Good retention. Aroma: tart, berries, light funk and barnyard. Taste: barrels, berries and funk. Tart dry mouthfeel. Balanced. Next one please!
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2022
at 13:57
9/10
Really loved the berry funk, can't wait for fair isle to drop blends.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2020
at 13:53