Captive Spirits (2024)
Floodland Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.44
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Ale Fermented in Oak
Captive Spirits is a blend of saison fermented and aged in gin barrels.
The 2024 blend includes oat and wheat saison from two Big Gin barrels aged for two years which had previously held Chardonnay. To complement these unique barrels we blended saison brewed with spelt, as well as saison brewed with wheat and oats, all aged in Big Gin barrels.
This beer was refermented to condition in the bottle.
Eternal gratitude to Alex Myers of Big Gin Distillery for the barrels and friendship.
Bottled 03/14/2024
Captive Spirits is a blend of saison fermented and aged in gin barrels.
The 2024 blend includes oat and wheat saison from two Big Gin barrels aged for two years which had previously held Chardonnay. To complement these unique barrels we blended saison brewed with spelt, as well as saison brewed with wheat and oats, all aged in Big Gin barrels.
This beer was refermented to condition in the bottle.
Eternal gratitude to Alex Myers of Big Gin Distillery for the barrels and friendship.
Bottled 03/14/2024
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7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Hazy pale, thin head. The aroma is gin, so lots of botanicals. This has a fair amount of sweetness, medium botanicals, medium bitterness. Salmonberry, with a bit of yeastiness, well-balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2025
at 05:57
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of bugginess, gentle gin barrels, and subtle rustic saison yeast. Flavour has quite prominent gin barrels, with rustic saison yeast, and gentle bugginess. Tons of gin that works really well with the rustic, buggy yeast expression. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2025
at 05:56
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
750mL bottle. Pours cloudy blonde with a white head. Spicy saison yeast, gentle Chardonnay must, oak, and some gin botanicals on the nose. Flavour has spicy saison yeast, woody oak, gin botanicals, some white wine character. Great complexity and balance. This is excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2025
at 02:03
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Anthony. Pours golden with small white head that lasts. The aroma is yeast, floral, citrus, oak. Slick body, citrus zest, oak, funk, wood, nice tartness, enjoyed this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2024
at 04:06