Burdock Pinot Fresco

Pinot Fresco

 

Burdock in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Farmhouse - Saison Regular
Score
7.47
ABV: 8.4% IBU: - Ticks: 5
Pinot Fresco is a “magic-fermentation barrel aged saison reposed on an inordinate quantity of pinot noir skins from Pearl Morissette.” The resulting beer has “classic notes of candied strawberry and tart cherry, [and] lands in the “hard to believe there’s no actual wine in this” category.”
 

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8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(750ml bottle from the brewpub bottleshop) Pours hazy medium pink with a small white head and no lace. Aroma is quite funky in overtone, mulchy slightly farty barnyard and wet musty leaves, below that are plenty of red wine skins and associated red berry notes of cherry and red field berries, some wood, and a nice saison yeast presence as well. Flavour is lightly sweet and lightly to moderately tart up front, funk is less aggressive than the nose and allows space for the grape skins to breathe, nice cherry and lingon-adjacent pinot character, good tannic structure, soft fruity esters, herbal bitterness and solid tannins building middle to finish though and the barrel becoming more prominent, some cellar-type Brett mustiness too. Dry bitter lightly mineral finish, lots of wood and tannic red wine skins, dried herbs. Medium bodied, filling but not prickling bottle condition type carb. Lovely red wine ale without a dose of it like Burdock often does, but solid wood and tannin structure giving an unusual bitter profile for variety. Great summer sipper.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jul 2021 at 13:30

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Poured from 750mL bottle. Orangey pink with small white head. Nice grape skin, vinous, with mild wood, subdued bitterness throughout.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2020 at 04:59

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
This has a nice pinkish colour. There's a nice vinous note, and a touch of brett. On the palate, it's got some nice bitterness and a complex vinous note. I like this one a lot.
Tried on 06 Nov 2020 at 04:41

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
750ml at Phill's place. Appearance: slightly hazy purple with a white head. Aroma: funk, barnyard, awesome grapes. Taste: low to moderate sour, lots of grapes, quite dry, woody. Overall: a bit more woody, than I prefer, but it's nice and complex.
Tried on 06 Nov 2020 at 04:04

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy amber orange with a small white head. Nose is full of red wine grape skins, some rustic saison yeast, and musty vinous notes. Flavour is really musty, with lots of musty grape skins, rustic notes, bone dry oak, and more vinous notes. Lovely musty, vinous, grape skins. Excellent.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2020 at 04:02