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Southern Tier Cherry Saison

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63
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3873.17/5.03.17/5.0Special8%24Tulip
Commercial Description:
Cherry saison is concurrent with the best of summer weather. The days are long and warm, and the spring blossoms have gracefully turned to plump drupes. Much in the same way, our Imperial Cherry Saison undergoes subtle but noticable changes while cruising from kettle to bright tank. Like the sun ripening fruit, a pit stop makes this beer better. Cherry Saison is aged with French Oak staves, imparting overtones of spice and balancing the natural sweetness of the cherries. Cherry Saison is the first in this series to incorporate oak aging. Enjoy it as a dessert beer, or tilt it back while sitting under a shady tree on a warm summer afternoon.
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 phaleslu (469), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Nov 24, 2009  
22 oz. bottle from Ludow Wines. Pours a slightly cloudy gold with a one-finger white head. Aroma of cherry, oak, farmhouse funk, honey, yeast, and alcohol. Light cherry flavor, with a good balancing aged oak, warming alcohol, caramel, yeast, and sweet malts. Medium bodied and sweet, with a touch of tartness from the cherries and a smooth quality from the malts and honey. Very nice, drinkable beer that I wish I had tried a little fresher rather than sitting on it for a few months.


 fonefan (11099), VestJylland, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Nov 24, 2009  
Bottle 650ml. @ home.
[ Trade by BDR ]. Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy hoppy, perfume - soap, wood, coriander, fruity notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, spicy, peppery, and a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to lively. [20091012]


 coldmeat23 (233), Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/516/20
Nov 23, 2009  
Pours a golden honey colored liquid. One inch head of loose creamy white foam. Minimizes to a thin layer of white bubbles fairly quickly, but they stick around. Lacing is minimally spotty. Definite cherry smell, although it is light. Hints of oak. Slight band aid notes. Light yeasty quality. The woody oak flavor comes through, fairly strong. Yeasty and breadlike. Very light touch of cherry presence. Not as much as expected. Light hints of caramel malts and a touch of hops. Maybe the oak-aging overpowered the cherry presence. Light body, with a sharp finish. Not as creamy as expected. Alcohol is fairly well hidden. Although this beer is not exactly what I envisioned it to be, it is light, refreshing, well balanced and pretty darn drinkable.


 jcr (1149), Jasper, Indiana, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/58/20
Nov 22, 2009  
Bomber. Clear pale gold body with a white, fizzy head, mostly diminishing. Aroma of sour cherry, nail polish remover, alcohol, rubber. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter and lightly to moderately tart. The finish also leaves a slight astringent taste of lacquer and flavor of alcohol. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. The flavors, combined with the alcohol, don’t work together. Unpleasant.


 bierkoning (6025), La Tropica, Netherlands
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/59/20
Nov 22, 2009  
Bottle. Orange color. Perfumed aroma with marzipan. Flowery hopbitter, perfumed flavor. Sweet with alcohol, cherry sweets and marzipan. Vanilla. Perfumed aftertaste. Disappointing.


 Crit (2401), New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/101/511/20
Nov 15, 2009  
Cloudy ginger color,small beige head.Spicy cloying yeasty profile, dusty faint cherry overtones. Lingering hop end. Rather unpleasant


 stobbe74 (700), Denmark
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/514/20
Nov 15, 2009  
Bottle, 22 fl. oz. Pours a clear amber beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet, fruit and cherry. The flavor is cherry, vanilla and sweetness. The palate is sweet. Overall a sweet beer but interesting.


 Bragesnak (2257), Aarhus, Denmark
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Nov 15, 2009  
From Voldby, DK. Bottled, 091109. Pink with white head. Aroma of sour fruit and yeast. Flavor is cherries and grape.



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