Off Color Brewing - Mice en Place

from OCB's promotion-- The OHSO Brewery team came up from Arizona to visit and brewed this Bière de Cactus with us. A reimagining of a relatively esoteric Belgian style - Bière de Miel which boils down to basically a honey saison. We replaced the honey with cactus derived sugars from a potent blend of both Prickly Pear and Saguaro cactus fruit and Agave nectar punctuated with hand picked Arizona desert lemons. Gently tart, juiciness from the cactus fruits plays first fiddle to the floral, tangerine contributions of our native, wild yeasts and Barolo foedre. Mid-palate demonstrates nuanced vegetal tones of baked agave and cactus flesh lending structure to a bright, furious finish of nectarine flesh, prickly black pepper, lemon peel.