{"id":16977,"date":"2017-05-05T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=16977"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:06:42","slug":"beer-of-the-week-bitter-brothers-spring-fling-saison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/05\/05\/beer-of-the-week-bitter-brothers-spring-fling-saison\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Bitter Brothers Spring Fling Saison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spring Fling Lemon Verbena Saison from Bitter Brothers Brewing Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Beer Writer:\u00a0<\/strong>In last month\u2019s issue of West Coaster<\/em>, I proclaimed my love of Belgian-style farmhouse ales, better known as saisons. In the February issue, I spoke highly of the quarterly beer-pairing dinners put on at Bay Ho’s\u00a0Bitter Brothers Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a>. So you can imagine my anticipation when I found out Bitter Brothers was crafting a special saison for its most recent Family Dinner affair. That excitement was compounded when brewery owner Bill Warnke <\/strong>offered to contribute a portion of all proceeds from the sale of this beer during the month of May to Beer to the Rescue<\/strong><\/a>, a campaign I established to raise funds for the Lupus Foundation of Southern California<\/strong><\/a>. Brewed with food pairability and seasonality in mind, Bitter Brothers Spring Fling Saison<\/strong> prominently features lemon verbena, a citrus-flavored subshrub that lends big flavors that meld nicely with the beer\u2019s Belgian yeast esters. It tastes like a pint-glass full of spring, making for an easy and enjoyable way to support a local charity.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer:\u00a0<\/strong>“Spring Fling is a 5.5% saison brewed with lemon verbena and fermented with a French saison yeast strain. It was brewed in collaboration with Eugenio Romero-Wendlandt<\/strong>\u00a0from Wendlandt Cerveceria<\/strong><\/a> to tie in with the next installment of our Family Dinner series, this one focusing exclusively on Baja chefs. The beer is an opaque, straw color with a white, pillowy, sustained head. The aroma is typical French saison phenolics with lemon verbena notes and light banana esters. The flavor follows the aroma, with more prominent lemon verbena herbal\u00a0presence and a crisp, dry, lightly bitter finish. This is definitely a beer meant to be paired with food and would go great with ceviche, moules frites or other seafoods.”\u2014John Hunter<\/em>, Head Brewer, Bitter Brothers Brewing\u00a0Company<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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