Hardywood Park Craft Brewery Full Color

**Aroma:** “Pear, apricot, and lemon esters with a hint of some sort of burnt phenolic character. Slight toasty bready malt. Apricot and red grape. A bit of wet-dog _Brett_ funk. Stone fruit, earthy. Light matchstick note with a medium-tart note.” **Flavor:** “Ripe peach, apricot, and lemon up front with a nice lactic tartness that rounds out the fruit character. Finishes mostly dry with a slightly lingering tartness. Apricot up front with red grape and toasty biscuit malt. Finish is very dry with slight peach notes and heavy _Brett._” **Overall:** “Nice complexity and excellent balance between _Brett_ character and tartness/acidity. Well-balanced, very approachable with a surprising amount of complexity. Quite sour with an interesting apricot and grape character. A fair amount of toasty malt character. Nice fruity notes, but the sourness is a bit overpowering. A milky lacto consistency with a sharp sourness and what I would describe as roast in the middle of the sip.”

**Aroma:** “Citrus with just a touch of _Brett._ Fruity esters abound, with notes of apricot, lemon, and lychee. A hint of must and leather adds to the _Brett_ complexity.” **Flavor:** “Moderately dry, medium body. Tart notes up front, orange and lime esters throughout. Moderate carbonation creates a refreshing bite toward the end. A puckering sensation after the taste lingers in the back of my mouth a while after the sip. Apricot, peach, and lemon up front with a bit of barnyard/horse blanket, must, and leather. Acidity pairs nicely with the _Brett_ character, and the finish is surprisingly balanced.” **Overall:** “Very complex, well-executed _Brett_ saison. Tons of complexity from the _Brett_ character with just the right amount of tartness and acidity to make each sip dynamic. Definitely worth seeking out.”

**Aroma:** “All the prototypical saison flavors, but heightened—strong citrus, floral, and peppery character plus a touch of grapefruit pith/peel and a bit of pink Szechuan peppercorn. The grapefruit and lemon are hard to pick up as they can easily be confused with the saison ester character.” **Flavor:** “Similar to the aroma, all the expected saison flavors are present but slightly enhanced—black pepper, lemon, a bit of banana. A nice citrus-rind character. The peppery character is well situated to counterbalance all the other esters. Body is dry, but I wouldn’t complain if it were drier. ” **Overall:** “The grapefruit and lemon notes with a touch of pith/marmalade bitterness were quite pleasant, and then this floral note popped in every once in a while to say, ‘Hi.’ It’s like a saison that got the Instagram filter treatment—a traditional beer with the contrast cranked up and a nice patina filter added to make it feel sexier. Could drink this all summer long.”