Deciduous Brewing Company Sylph (Nelson)

Sylph (Nelson)

 

Deciduous Brewing Company in Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸

  Farmhouse - Saison Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.39
ABV: 7.4% IBU: - Ticks: 7
Our interpretation of a dry hopped, mixed fermentation, farmhouse ale. This batch was extensively dry hopped exclusively with Nelson.
 

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7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
750ml bottle, thanks Jan! Pours hazy yellowish with a smooth head. Aroma of juicy fruits, tart tropical notes, floral notes and yeast. Taste is fruity, yeasty and slightly tropical with some tartness. Finish is fruity and tart with some tropical notes. Okay fruity and funky saison.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2017 at 08:22

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Radar! Pours a haze orange amber with a medium white head and decent lacing. Aroma is full of tropical fruit notes, guava and passionfruit, perhaps pineapple as well. Flavor is light tart, popping with fruitiness. Light plus body, soft mouthfeel. Excellent.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2017 at 00:25

6.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle from Fort Point Market, drunk 4/29/17.
Bright copper-golden body shows a gentle haze and very large, persistent, white head.
Very strong Brett notes add quite a bit of perfume and borderline soap character as the strong white wine-like, nearly musty quality of the Nelson serves to reinforce and unfortunately, to me, exacerbate this quality.
It’s prominent in the flavor, too, as big, incredibly hard-worked Brett seems to have pumped out tons of rich pineapple, light soap and twangy sourdough-like notes that get no reprieve from a high attenuation and very dry, wine-like Nelson character. High carbonation is natural and engaging while the malt shows biscuit, bread and very low sweetness. The bottle sat warm on the shelf, not sure exactly how long but that seems to have really kept fermentation going strong as this is just incredibly overdone with the Brett; the Nelson not helping out here in any way either.
Tried from Bottle on 30 May 2017 at 14:07

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle at home from radarsock from free beer week thanks! Apricot colored pour. Nose is fruity esters some barnyard funk. Tastes of white grape, strawberry, grapefruit, oak, horseblanket some yogurt. Funky light tart palate. Medium bodied. Very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2017 at 22:30

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Pours clear gold into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to nothing. Lemon, barnyard and brett aromas. Soft with sweet lemons, lime, white grape and grapefruit upfront turning to funky brett before the lasting bitter earth finish.
Tried on 23 Mar 2017 at 19:20

8.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 8
500 ml purchased at the source. Hazy golden color, low carbonation. Aroma is as complex as the flavor.

The hops show in the flavor by the means of mild grass, mellow white grape. The base yeast strain gives a nice complexity. Straw, mild funk, with a mellow Brettanomyces / funk oak hint. The body is medium with a nice effervescent mouthfeel. Just awesome!
Tried on 31 Dec 2016 at 18:22

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
Poured from bottle thanks Airforcehops light golden lemon with a thin white head. Aromas of mild funk grass straw nice peppery notes. Taste is clean crisp grape skin straw funk tart citrus. Wow. --- Beer merged from original tick of Nelson Sylph on 31 Dec 2016 at 19:18 - Score: 8. Original review text: Wow!
Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2016 at 18:17