Southern Tier Cherry Saison

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Saison
Lakewood, New York USA

Bottle: Light copper / orange pour. Aroma of yeast, citrus, spicey, and hints of fruit. Tastes dry, grassey, mild spices, and floral. Bananas maybe, but no cherry. Thanks Jeremy.

(USA) Courtesy of Waylo, thanks !! I agree with AFI96 100%. Where is the cherry flavor??? It’s M.I.A. This saison had a funky aroma and the taste was tart with some lingering spices. It’s ok, but nothing special.

Bottle. Hazed gold. Small white head. Nose is fruity, grainy, soft yeast, and sweet malts. Taste is grains, yeast, soft berry notes, light cherry, and sweet malt. This begins to get much grainier as it goes on. There are more spice notes and hops coming through as well. Body is light-medium and very bubbly. Lots of carbonation to this. The finish is more grain, yeast notes, berry, cherry, some melon, and sweet malts, Light cut flowers as well. Alcohol was nowhere to be found.

Courtesy theisti. Pours a hazy yellow gold, modest eggshell head. Aroma is lightly funky with a touch of grassy hops and lemongrass. Flavor is more lemongrass, a touch of cantaloupe, mabe just a small hint of sour cherries, in general a light acidity, and a refreshing wheaty finish. Malts are wheaty and lightly bready. Very nice and doesn’t feel like 8%. Not much in the cherry vein either.

Rating #100 for this beer. Bomber from West Lakeview Liquors, Chicago. Cloudy orange/gold with medium creamy white head and some lacing. Aroma is grainy with some yeast spice and off-dry malt sweetness, smells pretty fresh as well. Flavor is grainy and yeast spice upfront with very dry, caramel malt and fresh noble hops and absolutely NO cherry, not even a hint in the back. Medium, creamy body. Beer is obviously falsely advertised with lots of grain and grassiness. I just can’t get into it.

Had this last night, on tap, at the Trivia Pub in Moon Township, quaint little place with an impatient barmaid. Pale yellow with a haze, looks pretty good. Nice creamy head that fades rather slowly. Aroma is just slightly alky strong but otherwise it’s just clean and crisp on the olfactory with just a tad of fruitiness. Fairly strong alky wise on the tongue and may even seem to be more than the 8% listed here, which I find, taste wise, rather high for a saison. Most saisons I’ve had in the past tend to hide their alky content in the flavor like an old southern gentleman. It has a kind of saison feel about it but when I think of saison, for some reason I envision the lower alky impact farmy flavored types that resemble a wheat beer or hefe. Cannot really taste any cherry in there at all, mostly absent. Just keeps on coming on strong in alky character. Somewhat unrefined, like many higher alky brews. Finish is weirdly strong alcohol which lingers for a while. Reminds me somewhat of the crude finish I experienced with Southern Tier Trippel. Overall, a little more alky bitterness and impact than this session brew lover can handle.

22 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy gold with a moderate linen white head that lasted until mid-glass and left virtually no lace. Pleasant aroma of cherries, yeast and a few notes of spice. No noticeable cherry in the flavor, which is yeasty and has an odd sweetness, like an overripe orange. It was too sweet, even for me. A bit heavier on the palate than I was expecting as well. Almost waxy mouthfeel. Disappointing.

Bottle from Once Upon a Vine on 07/03/2008. Hazy golden body with a small white head. Sweet grainy, light fruity flavor, and some yeastiness. Cherries are there, but they’re certainly not dominant. Flavor of grain, sweet malts, some yeast, and cereal with faint cherry hints. There’s more cherry here than oak, and the cherry is hardly present. Medium body with moderately high carbonation. Definitely fits the saison, but the cherry and oak are weak at best, but still fairly tasty. The alcohol is not overly present in the flavor, but the alcohol warming kicks in later.