Southampton Cuvee des Fleurs

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

2005 bottle, courtesy of tpkenned.
Cork pulls off and here we go! Translucent and sometimes mostly cloudy pale copper in color with a copiously foamy head, booming with white froth and not going anywhere. Blanketing, coating lace like no other. Delicate bakery ambitions aromatically abound with yeasty breakfast bread, lightly complimented by soft lilies of the valley, honey suckle, vanilla-nectar buttercream, stale white cackled pepper and honeycomb. Quite unique. Some fruit loops even come in at the very end as I enjoy the dregs. Flavor is in full pursuit of happiness. Garden allegories abound. Dandelions, daffodils and flower saturated pollen give a waxy, margarine-like flavor and coating. Coriander and honeyed baguettes. Nectar dripping off the sampling stick, raised up high and catching germinated flower seeds as it’s held amidst a late springtime breeze. Champagne-like effervescence, sticky, cohesive and thickly streaming in. There’s a mild brut quality to it as well. Lilacs, stephanotis and coriander create a smooth honeyed current in its recession. Quite a treat.

Bottle from trade with MaxxDaddy. Slightly cloudy dark straw color with a thin white head. Great aroma - a mix of white pepper and fresh floral/herbal earthiness. The lavender stood out of bit. Taste has a slight sour start with a great floral middle, light spice on the back end. Complex but refreshing.

Amazing floral aroma, I would give it an 11 if I could. The flavor is less impressive; floral yet fairly dry with a crisp, dry finish.

pours medium hazy amber with a creamy, eggshell-white head. Surprisingly malty aroma of oranges, spices. I want to say there is alot of lavender in the nose but I’m not sure if I’m just inferring that from the description. Sweet, malty flavor, once again candied oranges, cinnamon, grass, and I guess flowers. Come to think of it, it really does taste like flowers, it’s no joke, it’s just sweeter than I thought it would be. Delicious and refreshing. Flavor lingers on for awhile, and really leaves me craving more of this wonderful, unique brew. I wish they would bottle and distribute more of this.

Bottle, 2005. Pours a golden honey color, very clear (at least the top is) with a sudsy white head. Nose is yeast, cheese, apples, candy sugar, floral - I assume that’s the flowers brewed in - bread, hay... a great saison aroma. Flavor is very fresh - lemony, pear, only slightly bitter, but almost tart. Dry finish, very carbonated, but a nice dry finish. A great take on a saison, not outrageous, but different enough to please. rerate - mega spicy, no rating change, i still love it.

Big thanks to mgumby10 for sharing this wonderful brew. My first example of this style. Pours a golden, cloudy color with a white, fizzy head. Aromas of spice, citrus, clove, yeast. Flavor is yeast, dough, spice, citrus bite. Good carbonation, tickly medium mouthfeel. Finish is medium length, spicy and the clove really comes through, as well as some funkiness. Excellent brew, not as sour as I expected.

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.

What a unique brew, it really took me quite a while to try to pick out all the flavors in this brew, even with the help of a fellow ratebeerian. Pours a cloudy light orange with a tall big bubbles white head. Tons of floral scent in the aroma, hops, flowers, tea spice, slight lambic sourness, perfumy and sweet. Taste starts just like the smell, very aromatic, hints of honey, chamomile, fruit, dry spice, and lightly citrus. Very herbal tasting. Very smooth and a unique enjoyable brew, what an experience.