Homebrew Batch #4 Bottling - Bottled up the all-grain hoppy French saison (Wyeast 3711) last night. Ended up with 16 12oz bottles, 4 500 mLs, and 4 22 oz. They taste I had was showing a lot of promise. Good yeast character, moderately fruity, only a little hop presence.
Brassiere Dupont Foret - Saison Sunday. It’s been a long time since I had the standard Saison Dupont, but this had a lot of the characteristics that I remembered specifically from the yeast. Really enjoyable and a classic interpretation of the style.
The North Brewery Citra Me Crazy - Made our 2nd stop at The North Brewery today. Of the 5 beers on tap only American Dream, their IPA, was a repeat from our 1st visit 3 weeks ago. Today’s new beers included a rye beer, a bitter, a hopped up breakfast stout (really interesting), and the Citra single hopped beer I ended up bringing home.
The tasting room was fairly busy while we were there with 4 different groups tasting and chatting. In the back they were brewing up a new batch of Cerberus stout.
On the Citra Me Crazy itself, it was pretty good. Leaned a lot more towards grapefruit than other Citra beers I’ve had in the past. Solid bitterness and decent drinkability - I think they listed it at 5.5% abv. As Citra beers go its certainly no Zombie Dust or Hill Farmstead, but I’d drink it again.
Trip to Finger Lakes Beverage Center - Some new saisons, some singles I’d been putting off buying, and a cheap ($16) bottle of Parabola.
