Alicel
Fair Isle Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
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A saison with Hallertau hops
Alicel is a saison with earthy and herbal notes. Dry hopped with German-grown Hallertau Mittelfrüh, it showcases everything we love about this classic, old-world hop.
(from Batch 4 label)
Alicel is an exploration of the elegance of the noble hop, Hallertau Mittelfrüh. Hallertau has fallen out of the spotlight. As we often do, we took the less traveled approach to celebrate this hop – delicate and herbal. Brewed and dry-hopped with 3#s per barrel of Hallertau, Alicel has beautiful floral notes of honeydew melons and cucumbers and aromas that transport you to an early spring herb garden. Working with Linc Malts, we used a hint of raw wheat and Francin barley grown by Trico Farm in Island City, OR. Named after an unincorporated town adjacent to where our grain is grown in Eastern Oregon, Alicel ‘shows up on the map’. It’s right up the road from the farm, but all that is there now is the local grain elevator.
(from https://fairislebrewing.com/beer/alicel)
Alicel is a saison with earthy and herbal notes. Dry hopped with German-grown Hallertau Mittelfrüh, it showcases everything we love about this classic, old-world hop.
(from Batch 4 label)
Alicel is an exploration of the elegance of the noble hop, Hallertau Mittelfrüh. Hallertau has fallen out of the spotlight. As we often do, we took the less traveled approach to celebrate this hop – delicate and herbal. Brewed and dry-hopped with 3#s per barrel of Hallertau, Alicel has beautiful floral notes of honeydew melons and cucumbers and aromas that transport you to an early spring herb garden. Working with Linc Malts, we used a hint of raw wheat and Francin barley grown by Trico Farm in Island City, OR. Named after an unincorporated town adjacent to where our grain is grown in Eastern Oregon, Alicel ‘shows up on the map’. It’s right up the road from the farm, but all that is there now is the local grain elevator.
(from https://fairislebrewing.com/beer/alicel)
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7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour, taster. @"MBCC 2025", Copenhagen (Denmark). 23/05/2025
[#8.351 Global - #1.808 United States of America - #4 Fair Isle Brewing]
Pours murky yellow with a white head. Aroma: peppery malts, floral hops and light yeast. Taste: yeasty and peppery. Spicy aftertaste.
Next one, please!
[#8.351 Global - #1.808 United States of America - #4 Fair Isle Brewing]
Pours murky yellow with a white head. Aroma: peppery malts, floral hops and light yeast. Taste: yeasty and peppery. Spicy aftertaste.
Next one, please!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2025
at 11:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
750mL bottle, pours a hazy blonde with a large white head. Aroma is full of floral hops, rustic saison yeast, and some wild yeast notes. Flavour is wonderfully expressive on the rustic saison yeast, with moderate funk, gentle floral hops, and a tiny hint of tartness. Rustic and gently wild. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2021
at 06:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a near clear straw yellow with a white head that starts and remains at the edges. Aroma has a funky grass and lights straw note with a hint of lemon and a bit of earthy flora underlying. Flavor has light lemon throughout with a really nice light funk, some grass and a bit of straw underlying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2020
at 21:19
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12.7 oz. bottle. Batch No. 1. Bottled April 2020. When not in the light the color is a glowing hazy yellow. Aroma of lemon peel, soft Brettanomyces, soft herb. Flavor is a slightly bolder reflection of the aroma. Dry texture and effervescent. This is proper!
Personal note: Fair Isle is my 1,500 brewery sampled. 10 years of taking notes on beer. I am still here!!!
Personal note: Fair Isle is my 1,500 brewery sampled. 10 years of taking notes on beer. I am still here!!!
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2020
at 20:09
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Capped 12.7 oz from Tavour. Batch No. One / Bottled April 2020. Pours near perry color with a nice creamy white head. Aroma is earthy and has mixed bacterial notes. Brett is possible. Med body at least. Flavor is earthy, spicy, grassy and bacteria which does seem to have a Brett characteristic. Quite dry. Hoppy. Bitter. Very Fleurs de Bois thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2020
at 00:03