Southampton Cuvee des Fleurs

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: Saison
Southampton, New York USA

big thanks to badbeer for this one. Amber pour with a small white head. Aroma is sour tropical skittles, flower, melon. Similar flavor, add pepper, mint, and a bit of lavender. Finishes mildly spicy, quick and refreshing.

Courtesy of tpd975. Pours deep deep mildly hazy gold with very thin white head. The aroma is pretty bold with candi sugar, dark fruity esters of hard candy cherries and prunes to go along with lots and lots of spices, some sweet honey and a hint of herbs. The taste has a solid bolt of sweetness going along with fresh picked rose pedals and honey. I also get tasty notes of spices and additional dark fruity esters. Lip smakin’ goodness.

Bottle courtesy of tpd975. Pours a hazy copper with a small white head. Aroma is very floral with spicy yeast and a hint of sweet malt. Taste is the same as aroma with the sweet malt realy coming through. Medium silky mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness and spicy finish. Very good.

Bottle from the brewpub. I was very excited to try this beer and it didn’t disappoint. Pours a burnt orange with no head. Aroma of lots of spices, vegetables, pumpkin pie, and lemon meringue. Flavor most strongly of pumpkin pie (canned pumpkin), some cinnamon, nutmeg, and citrus. Sweet and spicy. The flowers add interesting flavor to this beer and it was quite unlike other saisons I’ve had before (except for maybe some Fantomes). Definitely worth a try (and I’d like some more).

Bottle at the brewpub. Aroma of all sorts of spices and both herbal and perfumy notes (I would assume from the flowers). Flavor not really perfumy but has a light background sweetness with absolutely fascinating interplay of spicy and herbal notes that I couldn’t have identified individually, let alone as a whole. And they do indeed work together as a whole in a way so unique...I came up with my numerical score quite easily, but the words just didn’t come for me. Truly an experience you have to have yourself.

Bottle courtesy of Doclock -- thanks for hooking me up with this much-desired beer!

Pours a golden orange with a modest white head. The nose admittedly recalls those tourist knick-knack shops that I’m terrified of being dragged into by my wife, you know, the ones with tons of hand-sewn pot-pouri dolls with lace fringes and all of that shit. It’s the lavender, I suppose. But if a saison that smells like latrine and horse-blanket can be a delight, so can a beer that smells like a tourist-trap-for-women-on-some-damn-island-somewhe And a delight this one is. Lovely flavor, lots of interesting herbal goings-on, pleasingly dry, not so funky but that’s fine as long as one doesn’t come in with preconceptions, very nice on the tongue. It might be trying a bit too hard for unique character and novelty value -- I’d love to try a well-crafted saison flavored subtly at roughly 1/3 the current herbal intensity -- but it’s still a really fine beer.

Delighted to have tried this one!

Sample from a 750ml bottle. Clear gold body, still, with nearly no head. Nose is sweaty, floral hibiscus and stinging perfume... very forward and heavy with the soapy/perfume/floral character in the aroma. Texture is somewhat syrupy, flavors are very floral, soapy, etc., with a definite honey note in the middle, but it develops an unwelcome sharpness across the middle as well. Syrupy, oily honey in the finish. Interesting but I think I’m missing something here. Usually it’s easy for a bottle conditioned siason to get at least a 4/5 for appearance, but this looked like still apple juice, and it was from a bottle that probably saw a lot of movement during the day (festival pour). Something to rerate in the future, perhaps.

Bottle @ BCTC. Pours is hazy golden with a heavy white lace. Nose is heavily spiced with a little bit of pepper and belgian yeast. Flavor is slightly sweet and malty with more spice. Was a bit sweeter than I expected or like. A little bit of a letdown considering how much I love their other saisons.