Draught @ Mikkeller Bar. Crisp, light and pretty sweet saison with notes of vanilla and a small touch of brett.

(Keg at Pikkulintu, 20140312) The beer poured golden and hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had tartness, spices and hops. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were spices, fruitiness, hops, malts, sourness and bitterness. Afteraste was spicy and bitter. A Saison with American twist.

Draught @ Pikkulintu
Aroma has urinal cake, some sweet fruity notes, and some funky yeast. Flavour has sugary sweet fruits, urinal cake, some earthy notes. A bit confusing bretta-IPA: sweet, but then again a bit tart, sour and funky.

Draught @ Pikkulintu, Helsinki

Pours orange with a smooth white head. Aroma of funky yeastiness, some tartness, spices and fruits. Taste is smooth, slightly tart and fruity with some bretta, spices and citrus. Finish is smooth, hoppy and tartish with some citrusy notes. Quite smooth and hoppy bretta saison.

Tap at Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Colour is cloudy light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, citrus, hints of yeast, some hops and malts. Not bad.

Bottle bought @ systembolaget. Pours hazy pale golden with a frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving some sticky trace on the glass. Smell is sour, funky, tiny phenolic and slightly fruity with crackers, lemon juice, dry soil, hay, barnyard, lemon zest, orange zest, grapefruit juice and hints of sea buckthorn. Taste is sour, fruity, funky and phenolic with crackers, lemon juice, grapefruit juice, gooseberries, unripe currants, sea buckthorn, hay, dry soil, sheet metal, barnyard, sour milk and hints of iron. Mouthfeel is crisp, mouthpuckering, dry, tart and light bodied. finish is sour with crackers, sour milk, lemon juice, hay, dry soil, unripe berries and barnyard. A bit one-dimensional with not much complexity supporting the sourness yet still it’s pretty damn good.

Draught. Hazy hay yellow liquid with small white head. Aroma of lemon peel, apples, wood, lacto and light acetic acid. Taste is dry and medium sour with notes of apple, lemon and wood. Medium bodied with low to medium carbonation. Really nice.

Bottle shared at the chriso 2013 pre-GBBF shindig - London. Pours hazy yellow-gold with a light, white foam head. Funky nose with dank apple notes. Light sweet flavor, definitely dank and funky, with some dried out tropical fruits. Light bodied with average to lively carbonation. More dry tropical fruits to finish and moderately dusty brett. OK.

Hazy golden, high carbonation. Citrus aroma with yeasty and peppery tones. Fruity, balanced taste.

Bottle at Yespr’s. It pours hazy pale gold with a thick white head. The nose is doughy, barnyard, funky, fresh, brett, lemon peel, earth and faint herbal. The taste is crisp, tart, lemon sherbet, limeade, brett, dough, lemonade, grapefruit rind and sour sweets with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Crisp, tart and damn drinkable. Very nice.