We went to visit family in upstate New York and brought some local beer to share. We started with Swamp Head’s Saison du Swamp, which we’d been thinking of as a gentle introduction to saison. But it was a much bigger shock than we’d expected. We followed it up with a couple Cigar City beers: Sea Bass (which is very sour and funky, even compared to the average saison) and 110K +OT.
While we were there, we also had a few local beers: Saranac Summer Ale is a light, easy drinking Hefeweizen, and Southern Tier Crème Brûlée Stout is a crazy stout with an amazingly accurate crème brûlée flavor. We also had some family homebrew: a wonderful strawberry mead, and a chocolate raspberry stout (which I liked a lot more than the Southern Tier).
That’s an impressive line of bottles!
How’d I miss the strawberry mead?
Alas, that didn’t come up until we asked John if he had a couple pounds of honey laying around for us to make mead with.