To Contemplate Eternity (2023)
Floodland Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.86
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Prior to working on the 2023 blend, I drank some bottles of both the '19 and '21 blends and refocused my goals for the constituent barrels and style of '23. I wanted to not only think about the barrels that went into the blend at the time of blending, but to use those past bottlings to help me "see into the future" as Ron Jeffries once said to me.
I think this bottling hews much closer to '19, it certainly draws from lessons I learned as both those beers aged as to what kind of blend speaks to me after aging in bottle. We also went back to a wax style similar to what we blended in 2019. This wax blend in the light shows some subtle highlights that didn't, but it has the same "staring at the stars" kind of vibe as '19, which seemed appropriate since the beers are very similar.
Bottling date: 08/10/2023
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Funky and floral herbal hoppy with notes of citrus fruit, some light citrus peel, grass, medium body and acidity, tart fruity finish. Lovely.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
13th March 2025
CBJ tasting. Thanks to the team for the bottle. Near clear gold beer, small bubbly off white head. Light smooth palate. Decent fine carbonation. Light funky winey fruits. Touch of apricot. Winey and slightly lemonade finish. Tidy.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9.5 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9.5
A real stonker. Lightly sweet, mellow funk, decent acidity, some citrus peel, pleasant salinity and bite. Nice depth. Highly drinkable. Stunner.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks. A mostly clear golden orange coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is nice bretty funk, pineapple, peach, nectarine, salty sour. Palate is semi sweet, sour, tangy, highish crisp carbonation, flavour is composed of tangy, sour, peach apricot, tangy. Lovely funk.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ml bottle pours out golden topped with a fizzy head. Nose is nice funky wild notes brett some oak barrel notes. Taste is more of the nice tart funky notes some barrel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy yellow gold with small white head. On par with the 2019 release. Dry tart funk, some oak, bugs, good Floodland.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750mL bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with small white head. Aroma has . Flavour has sour stonefruit, dry oak barrels, bugs. Flavour has fruit pits, juicy stonefruit, bugs, dry wood. This is an excellent bug-forward saison. Thank you.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750ml (thx, Josh!) @ Sales Force. Appearance: hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: rustic, bold, some oak, pleasant and sophisticated. Taste: along the same lines, a bit lemony, rustic, sharp, with some minerals in the finish. Overall: nice and complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Hazy, and pale amber with a medium head. There's a really nice buggy character here. The palate is mellow bugs, a bit of tartness, spelt notes landing well. Decent base, with floral notes. I like the complexity here.