Name – Saison Athene
Country – United States
Type – Farmhouse Saison
Appearance – Pour a hazy, straw yellow color with a nice, frothy head.
Smell – Smell is quite yeasty with some spices present.
Taste – Sweet taste with yeast present and spices. Taste of pepper in there.
This is a some what decent saison from Saint Somewhere in Florida. Good carbonation but the flavors just didn’t seem to come all together in comparison with other saisons.
Overall Grade – C+
I was just looking around the web and came across some commercials that Shmaltz Brewing made. You don’t see too many craft breweries making commercials so I thought I’d share them.
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Name – Collaboration Not Litigation Ale
Country – United States
Type – Belgian Strong Dark
Appearance – Poured a hazy rusty red color with a nice sized head that laced the glass a great deal.
Smell – Very sweet malt smells picking up apples, raisins, caramel and grapes.
Taste – Pretty right on with the smell. Mostly the same sweet flavors and really no noticeable hop taste.
This was Batch #2 and bottle in February 2008 from Avery and Russian River for this collaborative brew. Very complex smell and taste with a lot going on. Probably the fact that it is already over a year old the hops have just kind of died off in the beer.
Overall Grade – B+
