Tipples Beer Review 5 and #beersaturday - Garage Project (NZ) Persephone Saison

It finals time (Americans read playoffs) for the local winter sport of AFL, so on a rainy Thursday night we find ourselves watching the big match on TV . My team of North Melbourne are not involved as they are currently having an 'aggressive reset' which is code for 'we sacked all the old guys last year and now we are useless'. Instead is Adelaide (the favourites) versus Western Sydney. In support of the South Australian team we are eating some amazing Monforte cheese from Section 28 and some apple quince both made in the Adelaide Hills and having a beer, not from Adelaide, but from New Zealand.

Why NZ? Because when looking for a beer I saw this awesome can and it's from Garage project and they rock. Finally the description of a Saison with pomegranate, pink peppercorn, grapefruit peel and balsamic vinegar sounded mind blowing so I was in.

The beer pours a lovely orange colour with small bubbles racing for the surface (hopefully you can see these in the picture below. It is without head which is a little unusual.

The smell is almost non-existant, I expected vinegar overtones, but rather its the malt I can smell, It reminds me of a Euro lager.

It is refreshing, light in body, much like Keanu Reeves acting style this is very subtle, a very slight sour bite in the aftertaste but again like Keanu, nothing as dramatic as you would hope.

All in all a pretty darn good beer, I could see myself sitting on a balcony or possibility a Grecian beach having a few of these little cans.

I would certainly go back for another one.

And for those who care, Adelaide smashed Western Sydney in the football game, which was to be expected but all in all a little boring, oh well at least we had cheese and beer, so I've had worse nights.