Kent Falls Brewing Field Beer Saison (Batch 6 - Rye)

Field Beer Saison (Batch 6 - Rye)

 

Kent Falls Brewing in Kent, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸

  Farmhouse - Saison Series Out of Production
Score
6.20
ABV: 5.2% IBU: - Ticks: 4
Farmhouse ale brewed with rye. 100% CT grown malted barley and heirloom rye from the Hudson Valley
 

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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
500 ml bottle. Translucent gold, with thin lasting head. Aroma has a lager yeast note. (Yes lager yeast not Belgian), pale grain, weak fruit.

The flavor is confusing because it doesn’t taste Belgian inspired at all, more like a mass produced lager. Yeast, grain, dead hops and a light pale grain backbone. The body is borderline watery and it has a strange yeasty aftertaste. This is not what I was hoping for when I purchased this bottle. Maybe the rye is off?
Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2016 at 20:48

4.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4
50cl bottle pours a clear gold with no head. Smells a little poopy, lemon, plastic, grist. Flavor is better, lemon, white grape, light grist, light pepper. Just not real good.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2016 at 20:06

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On draught at Publick House, 10/23/15.
Well, there’s no way to sugarcoat the appearance here. This looks like someone pissed in a glass and handed it to you. Little/no carbonation visible, a slight glassiness to it, but otherwise clear with no head, no bubbles, nothing. Golden, average-hydrated urine color. Could see giving it a 1 for appearance, but that dosent really accomplish much.
Moving on, it shows light graininess in the nose combining with light lactic and hard water notes (heavy mineral). Not much of a nose, though being served in a shaker isn’t helping things. Really just various dry grains, light vanillin, low on esters, though an afterthought of yellow fruits and apples No alcohol or flaws.
Upon first sip, it shows an odd, fizzy carbonation but it’s not altogether loose or overly watery. Sour yeast/lactic notes with lots of sour apple, some tart cherry, cranberry even. Just a plethora of dry, tart fruitiness, with plenty of grainy, cereal-like character, very little sweetness and just a hint of honey-tinted vanilla-like character on the finish. More cereal character as previous renditions contained, though I don’t think this one has the clear macro lager similarities, rye producing quite a bit of a different flavor than spelt. Drinkable and quenching, with no major problems, but tighter carbonation and just a touch more body would do wonders here.
Tried on 27 Oct 2015 at 21:38