Saison Rue
Was supposed to celebrate last day of classes with this. Instead I'm celebrating Thursday. Appearance - Wow. Opened the bottle and it just started bubbling over. Pretty intense carbonation! The color is a sort of cloudy golden, and a couple of inches of soapy head showed up. Smell - Tart apples for sure. Some citrus as well. Definitely some spice, maybe close. Lots of sour fruit. Almost candy. Smells nice and refreshing, a little bit of funky hay, but not too overpowering. Taste - Penty of sour up front. Pretty tart, but not well rounded. A little bit of spice on the follow. Almost like apple cider with cinnamon. Really quite sour, but not a deep flavor. It's good, not fantastic. Mouthfeel - Pretty solid. Good carbonation. Not too thin. Ok, maybe too much carbonation. Drinkability - Very nice, it goes down pretty smooth. Altho all the sour bitterness on the finish can be a little much. Had to edit here. The carbonation turned out to be so intense that it harmed the drinkability. I felt like I swallowed a balloon full of air by the end. Didn't make me want to have more. This is a pretty good saison. But it's got so much sour apple up front that some other flavors get kind of lost. It's a little one-note, altho it's a pretty decent note.