4.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2

Canned 9/13/22, drunk fairly fresh (within a few weeks) and again on 12/12/22. Rosey-pink-violet-copper with a massive, pink-tinged head showing strong retention. This was so disgustingly sweet when fresh that I was left no choice but to dump it out and try to age the other two cans I had left. Aged one cold and one warm and this warm one shows obvious refermentation in the can, producing massive, expansive head. Smells like mineral/plaster and strong elderberry. Sugars in here combine to give more of a rich blueberry juice character. Don't get much more than the light mineral/earth/plaster as far as saison character and it just feels like a lot of sugar and elderberry. In mouth it's soft, with plentiful, slick sugar. Tartness from the elderberry and lots of juiciness. It's definitely less sweet 2.5 months later, but not enough to make it drinkable. Maybe it needs another 2-3 months? I mean, regardless, it's shameful they released this beer that essentially felt unfermented. Still an easy dumper even after sitting warm for 2.5 months.