DDT 4/18/26 Happy Spring Football Day!
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Doing a little celebrating today. Cheers!
Off Color Fallen Blossoms. Happy Saison RSD to all who celebrate.
Saisei/Rebirth - 13 oz / 5.8% - 9
Foedre fermented wild saison refermented with Montmorency cherries then blended with Sencha Green tea and Japanese Cherry Blossoms. As the final snow melts, spring's first robins emerge. Tulips awaken, push through the earth, and the world begins anew. Created as poetry to express this process of reawakening and revel in its precious, tender moments, Saisei/Rebirth incorporates elements of early, middle, and full spring. Blushing forth with scents of wild blossom honey, lemon peel, violets, and honeysuckle nectar until spring progresses. Trees bud, ducks return to scout calm nesting sites and the first harvest of green tea occurs in Japan. Known as Ichiban-cha or New Tea, this first flush is the most delicate; sweetly aromatic of freshly mown grass with subtle notes of tilled soil and a slight saline quality best described as oceanic' Small buds transform into peak bloom of cherry blossoms and the bees get to work pollinating the new crop of cherries for the cycle to continue. A welcome portent of summer and the new world to come
Allagash - once upon an orchard golden raspberries. So much raspberry flavor
Cherry Predator - 13 oz / 6.5% - 8
Kidnapped from the fermenter before the metamorphic dry hop addition and augmented with a cinnamon and black cherry blend, Cherry Apex Predator retains the ripe pineapple ester from which it spawned and takes on a cherry cola aromatic with a springy tartness to match a warming spice finish
Lunch time!
Midwest Coast Saison
Sunrise in Osaka - 8 oz / 6.4% - 9
Continuing our deep dive into the dizzying array of Japanese citrus, Sunrise in Osaka turns an eye to a small, limelike fruit indigenous to the Osaka prefecture called Shikuwasa (pronounced 'shi-kwah-sah'). Dark green and similar in stature to Calimansi, Shikuwasa have an astonishingly acidic taste that becomes more balanced as they ripen to a soft, marbled yellow. Think of a cross between the perfumed, super tangerine highlights of Yuzu and the deep pepper and herbal notes of Sudachi. Aroma is an arctic clean blast of perfumed lime, candied grapefruit peel, and flint punctuated by pinpoints of chamomile, lemon thyme, and white pepper like stars in the night sky. Citrus elements weave warm herbal tones and earthy sensibility as heady, floral notes from our native yeasts fade to the purr of mild, Riesling like acidity and whisper of oak. Bewildering and dazzling yet also soft, delicate and emotional - like witnessing the Northern Lights or a first kiss.
clevelandisthecity
Bitter AF but not offensive
Didn’t make my usual Friday fat heads stop because they had a long time employee die suddenly and closed the facility for the day so everyone could go to the services. A really amazing move on their part. But they’re open now and Benjamin danklin is tasting pretty damn good.
