Harvest Ale from Saranac Brewery

Another installment in our continuing series of reviews on aged beers. (Also known as beer we forgot about for six months.)

Color:

dark gold color with slight red hints, “bastard amber”, opaque, SRM ~7

ABV:

5%

Smell:

floral, very very flowery, fresh hops

Taste:

This beer had a very very mild malty taste. It was very floral with a strong fresh hops aftertaste. It had a very mild bitter aftertaste right at the end and it lingered for half a minute. Harvest ales usually are made with lots of just picked hops. This explains a lot of the floral taste. It had a low-medium mouthfeel.

Rating:

This was very floral and I prefer it over the other Saranac beers I’ve had.