 Thank you for joining me for this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Break. Today I'm going to be doing a more local brewery to me, one that I've only had one of their beers before. I haven't done any on the show or any on any of these videos, but it's by Manor Hill Brewing out of Ellicott City, Maryland, and it's a Gressette that is 4.7% alcohol by volume. Now two things, one, this Manor Hill Brewing is actually on a farm about, I think it was like two years ago, Maryland passed some legislation allowing farms to have their own breweries. And this is one of them and they've been pumping out some really good stuff from what I've told. I've had, like I said, one of their other offerings and I thought it was quite good. Heard this one's great. The other thing, Gressettes. People have said that Gressettes are a lot like Cessons. So I looked into it a little bit and now the word Gressette, if you look it up, mainly refers to 17th century French young women who were working women, is one of them. But one of the other things it says is they were women who are part-time prostitutes, part-time working some other occupation. So why did I end up getting this name? Kind of interesting. But it was mainly done where Cessons were done for farmers. This one was done, Gressettes were done for miners. And the big difference between the two old-style Cessons were mainly known for like their lactic acid qualities and the Gressettes were mainly known for their hop flavors, hop-forward flavors. So other than that, they're kind of similar from what I hear. But let's get this going. Oh, I better show you the label. Yes, Gressette by Manor Hill, bro. Excited for this one. I like Cessons and things that are of that ilk. All right. Very, very yellow. I mean, it looks very Cesson-y. Yellow, white-ish. Obviously you can see it had a lot of head the way I poured it. Hazy. Let me show you. See? Very light. It looks even lighter on the screen, but it's a little more yellow in person. All right. Oh, it smells a lot like a Cesson. That same kind of yeasty, biscuit-y, Cesson-type smell. There's a bit of a funky quality to it, excuse me, funky quality in the nose, kind of shook me a little bit, but there's a bit of a funky quality to it that you do get from an older style Cesson as well. There's a decent amount of hop character in there, kind of citrusy, a little bit of banana, hint of like some banana notes, but there's a lot of lemon. There's a little lemon rind, but a lot of lemon juice to it. It smells really good, actually. It's almost got a little bit, interestingly enough, of like a salty quality to it, but not in a bad way, in a good way. It's got a lot of that, kind of like, excuse me, lemon rind-type flavor to it. It's got that yeasty characteristic, much like Cessons, little biscuit-y, tad bit funky, but it definitely has this, kind of, savory, salty finish to it, which is nice. I mean, this is a good beer, nice. It's nice to have another grizzette. I haven't had many grizzettes in my life, maybe two other ones other than this, so Manor Hill, good job on this beer and good job picking up a style that people usually don't do. Awesome. Anyway, thanks, everyone, for checking this out. Thank you, Manor Hill, for doing the beers you do and farming, too, because that's important part of our economy and how are people going to eat otherwise, or get feed for animals or whatever. Anyway, thanks so much, everybody. Go try to find yourself a grizzette to enjoy. If you have ideas, though, send it to me. If you see something out there in the liquor stores and everything that you want me to try, you just let me know. BrutalBattlePodcast at gmail.com, and I'll see what I can do. Anyway, go have yourself an awesome beer.