Green Flash Saison Diego

Here’s a tasty entry from a few weeks ago.  I’ve been leaning towards the lighter end of the scale lately with summer coming on, and I generally enjoy the offerings from Green Flash, so I figured this one to be a winner.  It was on the board at the Bier Station, so I gave it a go.  It was poured from a tap in a 12 oz snifter for $4.50;  Very reasonable as their price scale goes.  This probably isn’t everybody’s favorite style, with all the push towards the super-hopped brews lately.  They are usually much less bitter (I think,) with a lot of fruitiness and seem to work well with other flavors mixed in too.  For instance, I tried an awesome ginger-saison a while back…  But that’s for another day I suppose.  Back to this one.  While it was served with a good two fingers of bright white head, that quickly subsided and it really didn’t leave a lot of lacing.  The color was a light golden, moderately hazy.  The taste made up for the somewhat boring appearance though, at least for me.  Very Belgiany (it’s my blog and I’ll make up adjectives if I want to) with prominent yeast flavors, and a lot of fruit, although as usual I’d be hard-pressed to pick out which ones.  If I was going to guess I’d go with lemon and maybe a little orange.  Definitely rather tart though, so I’ll throw out grapefruit too.  If I was going to give it a small knock, I’d say it was too carbonated for my liking.  Maybe that’s an indicator of the style, I don’t know;  It was just a bit much for me.  Definitely enjoyed it though, it made me feel like summer is coming, even if it did snow last week.

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