Category Archives: Farmhouse Grissette

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Czech Republic, Farmhouse Grissette, Métaphore

Métaphore Rushing Out In The Rain

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Brewery: Métaphore
Country: Czech Republic
ABV: 4.1%
Style: Farmhouse Grissette

Brewer Description: (from bottle) This little mixed fermentation beer is a part of my continuous search of the sense of place and finding new avenues for expressing seasonal and local flavours in beer. A crispy little reminder of seizing opportunity every day to experience simple, perhaps even whimsical and too often unexpected joys around us. This grisette is built completely from local organic ingredients. It was hopped very generously with Saaz and Mandarina and complemented with just a dash of Riesling grapes. After long conditioning it was then bottled with local honey for that lively effervescence. Enjoy it preferably fresh but it will continue to evolve in the bottle for many moons on. Na zdraví!

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.29
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 750ml bottle, with a best before date of 1st August 2026. Poured into a Holy Mountain tulip glass.
Appearance: A slightly hazy golden colour with a just over two finger white head that had excellent retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Light funk, white grapes, floral, with lemon zest.
Taste: Similar to the aroma, with light funk, lightly tart, white grapes, lemon zest, floral, and a touch soapy.
Mouthfeel: Light bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Light, thirst quenching, easy to drink, with some good aroma and flavours.

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4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, England, Farmhouse Grissette, Mills Brewing

Mills Grisette Perry

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Brewery: Mills Brewing
Country: England
ABV: 4.5%
Style: Farmhouse Grisette
Other Notes: Mills Brewing make beer with minimal modern intervention, relying on local wild yeast cultures and the influence of nature to ferment

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Grisette Perry was made from a turbid mash containing barley and oats. The resulting wort was hopped with Sorachi Ace in the boil and Amarillo in the coolship. Fermentation took place in a single ex-Scotch barrel with juice from Gloucestershire grown Gin perry pears. The finished beer was primed with Conference pear juice to provide the sugars for bottle conditioning.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.29
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle, bottled in December 2020, with a best before date of December 2025. Poured into a Holy Mountain tulip glass.
Appearance: A lightly hazy golden straw yellow colour with a big almost three finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly to a thin but fluffy cap, while leaving some nice lacing.
Aroma: Funky, wood, pear, apple.
Taste: Tart, sour, pear, apple, lemon juice, funk, oak.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate to high crisp carbonation.
Overall: Light, bright and enjoyable. Just so easy to drink with refreshing pear notes.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), Beer Reviews, Farmhouse Grissette, Oxbow Brewing Company, USA

Oxbow Past Tense

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Brewery: Oxbow Brewing Company
Country: USA
ABV: 4.5%
Style: Farmhouse Grissette
Other Notes: Dry-hopped stainless-aged farmhouse ale with sea salt and lime

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Past Tense is a farmhouse ale brewed with wheat, sea salt and lime juice, dry-hopped with whole leaf American hops and conditioned with Brettanomyces.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.71
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.6

Intro: A 500ml bottle, bottled on 17th December 2020, and poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.
Appearance: A nice hazy golden straw yellow colour with an almost two finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly, while leaving only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Strong citrus zest and rind, lemon, lime, brett, funk, leather, hay.
Taste: Citrusy, lime zest, lime soda, floral, lavender, dishwashing soap, funk.
Mouthfeel: Crisp, light bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: The aroma was great and the citrusy part of the flavour was enjoyable, but there was also this floral and soapy flavour on the back end that just wasn’t my thing.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), American Solera, Beer Reviews, Farmhouse Grissette, USA

American Solera Grisettastone

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Brewery: American Solera
Country: USA
ABV: 4%
Style: Belgian Grissette

Brewer Description: (from bottle) A dry-hopped farmhouse ale.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.94
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A 1 pint .9 fl. oz. bottle, 2017 vintage. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: An extremely light straw golden colour with a big three finger white head that had decent retention while leaving only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Brett, barnyard funk, tropical stone fruit, peach, apricot with hints of lemon and hay.
Taste: Brett, funk, wheat, grapefruit rind, hay, grass and a touch of light peach.
Mouthfeel: Crisp, light bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: A nice and refreshing Grisette, although I did find that the funk went better with the aroma than the taste.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), Beer Reviews, Denmark, Farmhouse Grissette, To Øl

To Øl Fuck Art The Heathens Are Coming

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Brewery: To Øl
Country: Denmark
ABV: 5.4%
Style: Belgian Grissette

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Be afraid! Be very afraid! This puppy is twisting history. It is a Grissette from back in the days when mother nature was a young stud twisted with a smack load of hops and fermented with brettanomyces.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.62
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.6

Intro: A 330ml bottle, with a best before date of 25th November 2020. Poured into a Holy Mountain tulip glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden orange colour with a two finger white head that had good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Orange, lemon, yeast, brett, funk and light floralness.
Taste: Brett, funk, orange, lemon zest and a hint of pepper spice.
Mouthfeel: Medium to light bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Slightly too much brett for me, but still nice and interesting.