On tap at Doherty’s, dry Citra-Galaxy hop influence provides salty lemon spritz and light mandarin orange misting for palest yellow saison. Sour apple respite drifts inside crisply clean citrus stead.
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FLYING DOG BEE BEER
Dry French saison yeast affects sweet ‘n sour Buckwheat-honeyed bee pollen, rustic barnyard leathering, ginger-spiced pilsner malting and salted lemon snip to oats-parched white wheat base. Frisky carbolic pep adds spritzy sensation while tertiary melon, pear and mandarin orange undertones wispily waver below.
OXBOW FREESTYLE #37 PETITE SAISON
On tap at Ambulance, plastique crayon waxing embosses honeyed orange, glazed mango, grilled pineapple and sweet cucumber illusions of Galaxy-Citra-hopped one-off. Light lemon lime bruise brings latent souring. Favorably obtuse.
FIRESTONE WALKER LIL OPAL BARREL-AGED SAISON
On tap at Amazing Grapes, saison-styled sour ale blends French and American oak-barrel aged Opal Saison, thrusting lactic brettanomyces acidity upon lightly vinous lemon-seeded green grape tartness and rustic barnyard-grained musk. Delicate Sauvignon Blanc, unripe peach and apricot wisps dissipate beneath lemony white wine tannins.
KENT FALLS SEMBLANCE HOPPY WHEAT FARMHOUSE
On tap at Ambulance, soft-toned beige-yellowed saison offers mild lemon-limed mandarin orange tartness to woody Amarillo hop bittering and dry earthen leathering.
THREE 3’S BLUEBERRY SAISON
On tap at Poor Henry’s, local Jersey blueberries get lightly soured over dried apricot, fig and plum supplement for newly hybridized berry-fruited saison. Gluey fructose malt extract adds slick plasticine glaze to descending waxy blueberry adjunct while saison yeast adds proper cellar funk to spritzy lemon rind bittering awaiting salted blueberry finish.
FLYING DOG WHITE PEACH SAISON
Recalling a lactic Berliner Weiss with its delicate salt-spiced dried fruiting and ersatz woodruff syruping, unbounded saison provides desiccated white peach souring to briny black peppercorn respite, picking up lightly vinous green grape esters, distant lemon-limed watermelon dehydration and oaken vanilla riffs beneath the musky peach surface.
CROOKED STAVE COLORADO WILD SAGE BRETT SAISON
On tap at Poor Henry’s, soft-toned sour ale “brewed with wild sage and lemongrass” maintains brisk lemon-limed carbolic spritz over brettanomyces-affected earthen barnyard parch. Aromatic sage sweetness softly surfaces to complement lemon candy, lemon zest and lemon custard illusions (as well as dried plum wisps and spicy coriander wisps). A fine herbal-spiced fruit-soured original.
DEFIANT DAY DRINKER SAISON
On tap at Craft House, brusquely hop-embittered saison allows juniper-like tartness and dry hardwood musk to penetrate sharp orange rind, lemon peel and gooseberry illusions. Despite deep citric hop bitterness at finish, lightly soured saison surprisingly comes in at low 4.4% ABV.
PROCLAMATION PLATTELANDER WAREHOUSE STYLE SAISON
“Sophisticated lawnmower beer” is slightly sour saison affected by light brettanomyces bacteria, vinous yellow-green grape serenade and oats-dried pilsner malting. Cider-licked Cabernet blanc, Sauvignon blanc and Cabernet illusions pick up zesty lemon spritz as well as black-peppered orange peel bittering and wildflower-honeyed lemongrass herbage.
GOOSE ISLAND HALIA FARMHOUSE ALE
On tap at Plank Pizza, interestingly hybridized wine-barrel aged saison (with camouflaged 7.9 ABV) offers contagious brettanomyces-soured peach overtones to vinous white grape frisk and lemon-rotted orange, apricot, pineapple, gooseberry and tangerine tartness. Mild herbal perfumed citrus niche and residual lemongrass stint counteract musty barnyard rusticity just below dried peach adjunct.
PIPEWORKS WAR BIRD SAISON
On tap at The Oath, slyly sessionable soft-toned saison deploys citric India Pale Ale-styled tang to grassy-hopped earthen barnyard dryness. Lemony yellow grapefruit entry picks up tertiary pineapple, passionfruit, guava and mango seduction.
