Fruitis The Farmer Beescake
Against the Grain Brewery in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.03
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Another Funked Up Belgian style saison finished with
Brettanomyces. The grain bill includes Pilsner, Vienna and
Munich malts. The addition of spelt provides a crisp, dry finish
and 60# of honey gives it a complex sweetness and lighter body.
We fermented with a Belgian Saison yeast and then tucked this
away for 6 months in steel wine barrels where we added the juice
of hundreds of pounds of cantaloupe and honeydew melons. Then
inoculated the barrels with a wild yeast, Brettanomyces
Bruxenellenis to eat the extra melon sugar and produce funky
flavors. If that is not interesting enough we bottle and keg
conditioned (naturally carbonated) the entire batch using only
yeast, more honey and melon juice (that’s crazy stuff there folks).
The resulting beer is fresh, fruity and funky.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
75 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is yeasty and light peachy hoppy. Smooth fruity, mellow and light sweet ikpression. Bitter and slight peachy to mango fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2014
at 14:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is hazy golden. Aroma and taste are citrus, fruits, yeast, honey, brett and malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2014
at 14:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
23.08.2014, 0,75l bottle shared with friends @ home:
Big slightly fizzy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly fresh, citrus, yeast, flowers, hay, grass, yellow apples, alcohol, weeds, citrus peel. Taste is slightly harsh yeasty, citrus peel, yeast, weeds, flowers, hay, paper, leafs, minerals, grass, citrus. Medium bitterness, slightly harsh mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Big slightly fizzy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly fresh, citrus, yeast, flowers, hay, grass, yellow apples, alcohol, weeds, citrus peel. Taste is slightly harsh yeasty, citrus peel, yeast, weeds, flowers, hay, paper, leafs, minerals, grass, citrus. Medium bitterness, slightly harsh mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2014
at 12:09
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Horseblanket and light lemon malt aroma. Golden yellow with giant white head. Funky barnyard and light lemon/melon malt flavor. Get more melon in the aftertaste. Brett dominates the other flavors but doesn’t quite overwhelm them. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2014
at 18:53
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a nice golden bronzed orange color with a fairly large white head to start but eventually leveled to slim quarter finger. The lacing was slightly there and it slid into the beer.
The smell took a light peppery spice and added in a nice melon (honeydew?). Light honey enters in over top of a sort of an icy/somewhat refreshing quality of light funky but not overbearing lemon.
The taste took all of the previously mentioned flavors and added in a light white grape flavoring. She’s slightly sour around the edges but not overbearing, acceptable.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a slight refreshing crisp carbonation running over my tongue. Sessionable? Perhaps, slightly.
Overall, this was a pretty good saison to have again. The nice somewhat refreshing qualities in the smell and taste make for a fairly nice night cap or make a nice dinner with a steak.
The appearance was a nice golden bronzed orange color with a fairly large white head to start but eventually leveled to slim quarter finger. The lacing was slightly there and it slid into the beer.
The smell took a light peppery spice and added in a nice melon (honeydew?). Light honey enters in over top of a sort of an icy/somewhat refreshing quality of light funky but not overbearing lemon.
The taste took all of the previously mentioned flavors and added in a light white grape flavoring. She’s slightly sour around the edges but not overbearing, acceptable.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a slight refreshing crisp carbonation running over my tongue. Sessionable? Perhaps, slightly.
Overall, this was a pretty good saison to have again. The nice somewhat refreshing qualities in the smell and taste make for a fairly nice night cap or make a nice dinner with a steak.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2014
at 23:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange yellow with small frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is yeast, honey, funk, and melon. Thin mouthfeel with nice fruity funk with nice brett and very lingering dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2014
at 17:51