The Fury of Symbols
Floodland Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.83
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The Fury of Symbols is the second in the Against Death series of blended bitter beers macerated with fruit and botanicals.
This blend is comprised of a spelt and oat beer which underwent primary fermentation on spent 2023 harvest pluots from Collins Family Orchards as well as an oak-fermented wheat and oat saison. Before bottling the blend was macerated with whole flower hops and a blend of organic and foraged botanicals and citrus including calendula flower, gentian root, yarrow flower, coriander seed, and grapefruit peel.
This beer was refermented to condition in the bottle.
Bottled 06/27/2024
Conditioned with: Organic sugar.
Cellar: This blend will age very well. B1 was released three years ago and is tasting great, so I expect this will be best before Spring 2028.
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BeerPlace (10899) reviewed The Fury of Symbols from Floodland Brewing 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
750ml @ SF shared with Phill and Josh (thx for the beer!).
Aroma: a lot of botanicals, flowers, kinda soapy.
Taste: along the same lines, botanical bomb, tastes like gin+tonic with some herbs added.
Overall: too much botanicals 😬🤯
Oakes (33493) reviewed The Fury of Symbols from Floodland Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pale and hazy. Thin head. The aroma is way over the top - I call it dandelion but calendula is marigold or daisy. This smells like an overpriced soap from the farmer's market. On the palate, also heavy floral, like really heavy. This is beyond reason...a bit too heavy for me. Bitter herbs, I like the gentian, yarrow stuff. But holy smokes the florals are intense...more than any other Floodland botanical beer I've had. The base, it's sweet and gentle, mostly pale malt with a touch of brett. Not my Floodland botanical of choice, I will probably mark my other bottle to open in 2030.
mcberko (47456) reviewed The Fury of Symbols from Floodland Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy muddled orange with a large white head. Aroma is extremely intense, with very bitter botanicals -- citrus, coriander, grapefruit peel, and various floral notes -- along with some rustic notes. Flavour is bitter, floral and soapy, with plenty of coriander, grapefruit peel, floral notes, rustic saison, and soap. Very bitter, soapy, and rustic. Very strange. I don't get why you'd do this, but if you do this, this is about as good as you could do this.
pictoman (9684) reviewed The Fury of Symbols from Floodland Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy gold yellow with small white head. Very soapy aroma, bitter herbal roots and herbals, this is an old senior lady's potpuorri. This is too much. Ooooof. I see the depth, but the botanicals are way too over the top. My 50th and lowest rated Floodland...
RennyDoig (4553) reviewed The Fury of Symbols from Floodland Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
750mL bottle. Pours murky blonde with foamy white head. Soapy, floral, botanical nose; definitely chamomile present in the herbal character. Flavour is very bitter, in a basic sort of way, lots of botanicals, wild yeast, astringent herbs, oversteeped tea leaves. On one hand the aggressive characteristics are pronounced, but on the other hand it's well done.