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Fox Farm @ The Engine Rm.
TAP ROOM
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First Visit: 5/1/2025
Fox Farm @ The Engine Rm.
Impression
Impression:
Beers Tasted
Beer 1: Satu Sahti Farmhouse Ale (8.4% abv) Light brown color, with gorgeous mint & thyme aromas. Carbonation maintains and even grows stronger through taste experience. Orange, caramel and blood orange apparent on palate. A Finnish Sahtu-style beer, steeped with spruce leaves in futter; ginger grown in Higganum, CT is thrown into the coolship as the beer is made. Triple malts of Barley, Emmer & Rye, all grown in Connecticut.
Beer 2: Triolet Wild Ale (6.5% abv). Gueuze-inspired flagship of Fox Farm's wild beers. Usually aged on oak, but Armagnac, Sherry and Gin barrels have been used. More neutral taste than the Satu, Not as yeasty until the back palate, when yeast flavor comes in a rush. Subtle carbonation that also comes on through the taste experience.
Beer 3: Altra Volta Naranja Wild Ale (6.8% abv) Some orange, but mostly neutral flavors. Tasty. Aged on Viño de Naranja (Orange wine) barrels from Spain.
Beer 4: Sonata Wild Ale (6.1% abv). Kriek-inspired cherry sour. Full-on cherry taste that is sublime. With chocolate cake, this was a perfect pairing. Three cherry varieties used: Polish Morello with some almond taste from their pits; Montmorency from NY State; and Balaton from Michigan. Whole fruit is used, then the beer is re-fermented on the fruit. Racking & packing occurs after 6 weeks.
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