Imperial Cherry Saison
This beer was not at all what I expected, but it was still pretty good. It tasted very tripel-like to me, and not at all like cherries and not really much like a saison. So, mis-named and mis-labled it may have been, but still not a bad beer. It poured an amber color with a medium amount of head. I really expected it to be red, or to at least have a pinkish tinge, and it definitely did not. Aroma was also not cherry like. I got lot of candied-sugar or candied-fruit smell and some cloviness, but no cherries. Flavor was just slightly sour, but again with no real hint of cherries, oakiness, nor of saison funk. It tasted instead a lot like a tripel, with a lot of spice, clove, and a champagne-like secondary-fermented carbonation mouthfeel. Not at all what I expected, but still good. Still, seems very off-target with what the bottle told me to expect. SurlySober brought this bottle over to my house...no idea where it came from.