Since New Beligum made its way into my area I have been seeking out every beer I could find. Many of these beers have been from the Lips of Faith series, and they have been hit or miss so far. Today I have the Prickly Passion Saison, which is brewed using prickly pear and passion fruit. These two ingredients don’t make their way into beer often so I’m excited to see how it turns out.
Anchorage Brewing Co., a newer brewery that opened in March of this year, has bottled a few beers all seemingly “funked” with brett. Previously, I’ve had their Bitter Monk, and now I’m sampling their Love Buzz Saison. It’s billed as a Saison “brewed with spices, aged in French Oak Pinot Noir barrels.” Essentially the same gauntlet their Bitter Monk went through, so I expected a nice amount of funk with a dry floral Saison base.
Fegley’s Brew Works has consistently done well with their beer, with one of my favorite pumpkin beers being their Devious Imperial Pumpkin Ale. Shane and I featured their Monkey Wrench Saison last summer on a video episode. I found a different take on that same beer with the annual spring/summer release of the Space Money Raspberry Saison.
For Philly Beer Week 2011, Brian O’Reilly of Sly Fox and Dirk Naudts of De Proef Brouweru teamed up to create Broederlijke Liefde, a Saison Ale. Fermented with two different types of yeast, a traditional Belgian yeast and brettanomyces, this commemorative beer is the latest in the Brewmaster’s Collaboration series which was available on draft during Philly Beer Week and also in bottles.
Spring is in the air — no, it’s unfortunately not. It’s just the aroma of the Schlafly Saison I recently received from a friend. The Saint Louis Brewery currently has all its beer branded under the Schlafly name, and is growing rapidly. They’ve started looking to expand their operation to begin brewing in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Though, unfortunately for their Saison it won’t be growing with them, as this one I received is part of the very last batch they’ll be releasing.
