The color is copper-orange with a thin head and moderate effervescence. This beer needs to warm up a bit to gain its olfactory profile; so take a pause, then you’ll smell nuances of green skinned pear, muted bubblegum, canned pear, canned peach and star anise. The palate is fruity and bitter: peach, pear, apricot pit, tangerine, lemon oil and pith, light vanilla and star anise with 7.9% abv. The finish is peachy with apricot pit bitterness. The sweeter fruit nuances and the bitterness play off each other well and give the beer incredible depth and harmony.  

Although this is a Saison with mango, don’t expect to taste a bunch of mango.  Think of it more like wine. The taster compares nuances in the wine to other fruits, rather than saying it tastes of grapes or is “grapey.” Here the mango is reminiscent of other fruits, mainly orange skinned varieties.

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