750 ml bottle, trade with Daknole! Y’know those warnings about opening corked champagne bottles? I should heed them. The twistie on the wire cage broke, so I fiddle with my pliers, and as soon as I got the cage loose, out pops the cork and hits me in the eyebrow. No harm this time at least, just some cleaning of the concrete floor. Just a few dribbles lost. Once I got it into my big tulip, I got a misty golden body under a head with a mind of its own, including a "core sample" of foam poured from the neck. Smell is tart, but Belgian pils malt comes through. I’ll go with chamomile and maybe rosemary, though the black pepper doesn’t turn up for me. Once I finally get to drink it, I find it tart again, spritzy and spicy. Lemony taste of a wit, too. Spice balance the malts more than any hops. Like most saisons, this gives me a "soapy" impression, but not too much. A nice followup to the Imperial Stout earlier today. And I finally add a tick for Florida and North Carolina beers in my Geo Stats today!
However, at the end of the bottle, I’m sneezing like my allergies have kicked in. Could be the spices or something in the hops. Something in beer making triggers my allergies. Hope it’s not hops. Got enough to worry about without diabetes hanging over my head.

RBWG 10 Sour @RLRL-on tap–pours a white ring for a head and murky copper color. Aroma is medium malt, medium fruit, oak, yeast. Taste is vinuous, medium malt, medium fruit, oak, yeast. Good effervescence.

on tap @BT-pours a white head and hazy yellow color. Aroma is sulphur, wheat. Taste is sulphur, wheat, some tart fruit. Not quite a sour, not quite a wild, not quite a Berliner Weisse. 2.9 Now I am seeing the notes for this beer (as I am entering my rate), not sure the sulphur impression would change, but couldn’t identify that their were berry flowers . Will look for this again.

Poured up on tap at CCB with a slightly hazy bright gold body and fine looking white head. The aroma was a pleasing mix of musty sweaty leather and dirt soccer field with sharper spicy yeast notes and some sweet light skinned fruity esters around the edges. The taste is similar with notes of apples and pears quickly giving way to mustier funkier notes as well as sharper spiciness. By midway the sweet light malt and estery notes get a touch too sweet for a while but into the finish a layer of lemon like acidic tartness evens out the experience. If the sweetness was ratcheted down a notch I’d really dig me some of this. Love to try it again mid summer. Nice one Bob.

Au fût @ CCB. Une très bonne offre de Bob qui cette fois ne déçoit de nouveau pas. Cette bière est de couleur dorée allant vers le foin, reste assez calire avec une épaisse mousse blanche. Le nez est distinct mais conserve néanmoins la signature de St Somewhere mélangeant allégrement le grain avec l’odeur de fleurs de sureau. Le tout est accompagne par la levure belge qui caractérise cette brasserie. En bouche la bière offre un changement surprenant des autres bières de St Somewhere. Cette dernière est un peu plus sèche au palais, on y note plus de grains mais toujours en conservant ce subtile cote malt avec une fine amertume et un zeste de citron, le tout garde cette présence de levure avec qcq esters.

Bottle thanks to cmillward: Poured a deep orange with white head. Aroma is think of floral and pungent sourness to the nose. Taste is very sour and bitter with more floral and some malt.

On tap at Fruit in the Room at Cigar City Brewing. Pours murky gold with thin white to off white head. The aroma is apples, herbs, spiciness, a touch of tartness, more apples and an herbally type note. The taste is sweet apple fruitiness, apple skins tartness and then increasing levels of dryness. It really dries out almost to the point of puckering into the finish. It has lingering and fading smooth apple, smooth yeasty spices and faint lemon like acidic tartness. Refreshing.

cask couleur est brumeuse et trouble une sorte de orange clair, limite sanguine de style pamplemousse. pas de mousse on ressent de suite l’aspect typique de la Saison Athène ainsi que les éléments de levure belge, qcq notes sucrées et l’aspect original de la bière se dissipe un peu avec ce traitement. L’usage des feuilles de citron vert donne une arôme rafraîchissante ainsi que au palais. Le palais, à proprement parler, a des notes aigres qui sont adoucies par les feuilles de citrons verts et citronnelle. Dommage pour cette bière car le côté pétillant est quasi nul et donne une impression de trop plat qui en fait plus un jus de citron frais avec alcool.

Cloudy yellow with a lasting white head. Fruit and spice in the aroma, pepper, cardemum and cinnamon was noticed. Sweet fruity and spicy flavour with a peppery hot finish

Hazy amber with a medium beige head. Slightly hoppy aroma with fruity and malty hints. Hoppy flavour with toasted malt, caramel and fruity hints. Finished dry.