Saint Somewhere Lectio Divina

Brewed by Saint Somewhere Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Tarpon Springs, Florida USA

750 mL bottle. Pours hazy amber with an average, fizzy, light brown head, somewhat lasting with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (bread, straw), average hops (flowers, grass), heavy yeast (horse blanket, barnyard, earth) with notes of apple, pear, raspberry, and wood. Full bodied, sticky and gritty texture, lively carbonation, and a chalky finish. Average duration, light sweetness, acidity, and bitterness.

Pours a very light orangish/yellow in color. Not a whole lot of head forming on the pour or sticking around. Smell is fruity, spicy and very floral. Taste is somewhat spicy, again very floral. There’s some light fruit as well, maybe a pear or slight apricot. A little thin on the mouthfeel and at 8% the alcohol is more noticeable than I expected. Drinkable, but nothing I would seek out.

Thanks to iowaherkeye for bringing this bottle to his ’farewell to Iowa’ tasting. My first beer from Florida. Poured a slightly hazy medium orange color. with a soap bubble white head. The aroma was fruit dominated (especially pear) with a bit of toffee underneath. There was also a whiff of chlorinated pool water. Kind of like that smell you sometimes get in a the hotel lobby that lets you know there is a pool somewhere in the building. Very fruity and semi-sweet. I tasted pear, apple, peach, and rock candy. Akin to a fruit liqueur.

Bottle from Iowaherkeye - thanks Joey. Sweet apple and honey aromas with some roasted scents. Caramel brown with a flat head. Dry roasted malt, light caramel, apple juice, fruit cake, and a light spiciness. Creamy and somewhat flat with a light dryish finish. Good.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with a medium tan head. Aroma is brown sugar, raisins, caramel, some barnyard. Flavor is brown sugar, rasins, caramel, tobacco. Palate is medium bodied, medium to high carbonation, finished sweet. Pretty good brew.

Tampa, Fl. - Total Wines - 750 ml corked and caged bottle. Pours a dark orangeish amber with an initially rocky off white head that dminishes a bit halfway through. Aroma is a bit off with some funkiness to it - hard to place - overrpe prunes and a hint of bandaids. Grows on you and you get used to it. Flavor has some toffee, baked brown bread, raisins, pipe tobacco and hint of milk chocolate in the finish. Mouthfeel is thick and syrupy. Glad to see some decent brews coming out of Florida and it feels good to support a local brewer.

Hazy dark gold with a lightly off white head. Funky hay and sage. There is also some cake donuts. Taste of sweet almonds and ginger spice. There is a nice fruity canned peach note in the finish. Decent.

750 ml bottle corked and caged from my secret santa. i would have liked to hold onto this one for awhile but the cork looked ready to pop when i pulled it out of the box. pour beautiful hazy brown with a perfect tan head. perfect belgian ale appearance. aromas are subtle and are mostly yeast and alcohol but some funk there too. hmmm this isnt shaping up like i was expecting. flavour are quite nice. funky belgian dark fruits. actually a little sour in the mouth. quite interesting. i have to admit i didnt think this was going to be this good. scary drinkable. thanks santa!