Winesap (2022)
Floodland Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.31
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This bottling represents a single barrel of saison refermented on apples.
In late Fall 2022 we milled and pressed organic Winesap apples from Filaree Fruit in the Okanogan Valley. That juice refermented in barrel with aged spelt saison. After primary fermentation it was topped with additional oat saison and then allowed to age through Winter and Spring. The resulting beer was refermented to condition in the bottle with local raw Star Thistle honey.
In late Fall 2022 we milled and pressed organic Winesap apples from Filaree Fruit in the Okanogan Valley. That juice refermented in barrel with aged spelt saison. After primary fermentation it was topped with additional oat saison and then allowed to age through Winter and Spring. The resulting beer was refermented to condition in the bottle with local raw Star Thistle honey.
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8.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml (thx, Josh, foe getting this during the special dale at the brewery!) @ SF.
Aroma: funky, apples, some rustic notes.
Taste: along the same lines, has both characteristics of cider and a farmhouse saison.
Overall: very nicely integration of apples and funky saison, cool.
Aroma: funky, apples, some rustic notes.
Taste: along the same lines, has both characteristics of cider and a farmhouse saison.
Overall: very nicely integration of apples and funky saison, cool.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 04:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy, soft bretty aroma with a mellow appley note. Right now, the apples are still fairly prominent, an off-dry finish. Good cidery character, quite a lot of tannins in the finish. The bretty saison is there, then there's also a lot of alcohol, that comes out more than usual for Floodland, along with more tartness. I like this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 04:48
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
750mL bottle, pours a hazy pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has some toffee apple, rustic saison yeast, and a touch of wild yeast. Flavour is very apple-y and messy, with toffee apple, light funk, some chaotic booziness, and rustic saison yeast. Rather messy and lacking integration compared to Floodland’s standards. Strange apple character that just doesn’t work for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 04:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle (bottle 07/06/2023). Hazy yellow with small white head. Appley with mild funk character, soft saison yeast in the background. Interesting blend, decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 04:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
750mL bottle. Pours murky blonde with a white head. Nice saison yeast and some apples on the nose. Flavour has a lot of rustic saison yeast and a less-than-stellar fermented apple character; like the apples were thrown in halfway through as an afterthought. Lacks the cohesion of a graff. The apples kind of taint the beer, leaving a long, slightly bitter aftertaste. Below what I would normally expect from Floodland.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 00:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle pours out golden topped with a white fizzy head. Nose is nice tart notes some apple nice barrel notes. Taste is more of the nice funky notes apple skins and some barrel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2024
at 00:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle at share. Pale golden pour with a fine white head. Aroma is yeasty, grassy with notes of apple. Taste brings out the apples a bit more, still supported by a nice robust saison base. Fruity, sweet, funky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2024
at 04:46
8/10
RB 4.1 = 8.2 tick
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Bottle share on Zwanze Day
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2024
at 00:31