 Thanks for checking out this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Break. Today I'm going to be doing mosaic saison. It is a mosaic hopped saison that is also aged in oak barrels with two different strains of protanomyces. It's by Anchorage Brewing out of Anchorage, Alaska and it is 6.5% alcohol by volume. Cork and cage so I don't have a bottle opener this time. Well the cage broke so that's interesting. Be careful when you're doing these corks though because there's a lot of pressure sometimes. Something I learned in a champagne you should never actually pop it off because you can hit someone in the eye and then you got a problem. Nice big pop. Let's pour some of this sucker. Two strains of protanomyces so I'm expecting a decent amount of funk to it. Maybe a slight tartness because as I've learned over time not, protanomyces doesn't necessarily always mean sour tart. You know mainly means the funky aspect. Um yeah mosaic saison pretty cool label that is on the table. All right huge head when I poured it. I mean that kind of happens a lot with Brett type beers. As you can see it's very kind of like uneven. Well maybe you can't see it. It's kind of uneven the way it's going away. Also indicative of Brett beers. Very hazy. It's like a yellow hazy um yeah with a little slight orgy tinge. Oh tons and tons of funky aspect in there. Tons of Brett funk. There's oh I smell those mosaic hops. It's very vibrant actually. Smells really nice and there's a lot of tartness in there like a lemony tart aspect and it smells like some bitterness like the lemon peel as well. So it's kind of like putting a full-on lemon inside of a beer with protanomyces and a lot of nice mosaic hopping. Which mosaic to me gives a little bit of like a spice characteristic. Smells really nice. Oh a lot more tartness than I was expecting out of it especially based on the smell. Real tart up front I get that mosaic hot flavor up front as well. The tartness hits first and then it's the mosaic and then it's some bitterness and the funk is throughout with every single one of those. Oh wow it's really nice. It's just like a funky lemon but not nearly as tart as an actual lemon would be. It's like a very downplayed type lemon with with a lot of funk aspect to it. The smell is very awesome. The taste is quite nice. That's nice. That's how I want my Brett Saison's. The extra aspect of the mosaic hops in there I think helps bring a little bit of the bitterness up which helps this beer in my opinion because the tartness and the bitterness going together is very nice. Also just having that extra hop flavor to it which a lot of you know Brett Saison's if it's just straight up you know Brett Saison without any extra hopping to it like this one has then you know there's not as much characteristic to it and that kind of extra hoppy aspect is very nice. Kind of I feel like a rounds things out pretty well. So anyway nice nice beer very nice beer. Anchorage Brewing. Good job buddies. If you out there watching want to see any particular beers on here that I might be able to get let me know or if you want to hear us review them on the actual podcast you can do that too. Brutal Battle podcast at gmail.com. Just send the email there with your suggestions and while I'm plugging things please check out iTunes and help us out by giving ratings and reviews. So thank you very much until next time go have yourself an awesome beer.