Santigold
Foam Brewers in Burlington, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.03
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tasting notes: earl grey, juniper berry, coconut
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8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at the brewery, 3/22/17.
Very cool, almost glowing, bright, uncooked sweet potato orange color with a solid haze and a beige head atop showing moderate retention (strong if you are rating to a sahti, which generally have no head retention).
Juniper, honey, light caramel, spicy white pepper and hints of earthy funk and mineral. Wow. Not bad, not bad at all...Definitely more malt here than your average sahti, though there are plenty of strong sahtis in Finland that this does wonderful justice to. Juniper is not overdone or astringent and the malts are soft and comforting providing light sweetness but are still well-attenuated. Soft earthy funk and light umami with a low but engaging carbonation. Bready biscuit, cereal, caramel and other various stewed grain notes. Great stuff and my favorite one of everything they had on tap this visit.
Very cool, almost glowing, bright, uncooked sweet potato orange color with a solid haze and a beige head atop showing moderate retention (strong if you are rating to a sahti, which generally have no head retention).
Juniper, honey, light caramel, spicy white pepper and hints of earthy funk and mineral. Wow. Not bad, not bad at all...Definitely more malt here than your average sahti, though there are plenty of strong sahtis in Finland that this does wonderful justice to. Juniper is not overdone or astringent and the malts are soft and comforting providing light sweetness but are still well-attenuated. Soft earthy funk and light umami with a low but engaging carbonation. Bready biscuit, cereal, caramel and other various stewed grain notes. Great stuff and my favorite one of everything they had on tap this visit.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 May 2017
at 17:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
I wanted to bring this home since they wanted to serve this in a tulip and I didn’t want to argue with them, but technically Sahtis are to be served in mugs and that is what I did. Consider this rated to style.
The appearance was a hazy orange color with a foamy white head that seemed to die off at it’s correct pace. Lace seemed to slide into the beer.
The aroma had a nice consistent sweet juniper to tea to slight berries. Is that starfruit they added to this? Ok, different, but acceptable.
The flavor leaned to the sweet side pulling in a slight fresh spruciness in underneath. Juniper comes back with the tea. Fair tea-like to sprucy aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. ABV felt good, though a bit higher for the style, acceptable as it didn’t effect the feel too much.
Overall, my last couple of sahtis I didn’t know what I was talking about at least this time, I knew what I was doing coming into this beer and this was good. I believe the Finnish people would approve.
The appearance was a hazy orange color with a foamy white head that seemed to die off at it’s correct pace. Lace seemed to slide into the beer.
The aroma had a nice consistent sweet juniper to tea to slight berries. Is that starfruit they added to this? Ok, different, but acceptable.
The flavor leaned to the sweet side pulling in a slight fresh spruciness in underneath. Juniper comes back with the tea. Fair tea-like to sprucy aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. ABV felt good, though a bit higher for the style, acceptable as it didn’t effect the feel too much.
Overall, my last couple of sahtis I didn’t know what I was talking about at least this time, I knew what I was doing coming into this beer and this was good. I believe the Finnish people would approve.
Tried
on 14 Mar 2017
at 17:27