The Brewery: Twisted Pine Brewing Company (Phoenixville, PA)
The Brew: Grisette (Belgian-style Ale)
Availability: 12 oz. cans / draft (limited)
ABV: 5.6%
Rating: 8.7/10
Location: Home
Found: Finger Lakes Beverage Center
The Story? Sly Fox has always been my radar as long as I remember drinking beer. A friend of mine has family in PA and I usually hear about any PA brews that I should be aware of. Their Royal Weiss and 113 IPA were mainstays at the house for a while a few years back. I'd been eyeing this Grisette for a bit and my partner picked it up on a whim to have with dinner. Sly Fox can tell you the rest...
"Grisette is a Belgian style ale which was originally brewed in the Hainaut province to be the beer of the miners in the area, just as Saison was the beer of the farmers. It was lighter than Saison and frequently contained wheat as well as barley malt (as does the Sly Fox version). The name is derived from the French word for "gray," referring to both the drab factory frocks worn by the young women (the grisettes) who doled out pints as the men exited from the mines, and also the color of the cobblestone rock being mined."
Grisette is a style and it's name. Got it?
The Beer? Mmmm... this one jumped out of the gate with lots of flavor. Sweet and smooth with plenty of banana notes and tons of leggy head and carbonation. Belgian is definitely the name of the game on this one - lots of coriander, yeast, bread, and grain flavors swirling around this effervescent brew.
A solid, anytime Belgian-style ale on the semi-sweet side of things. Will be picking this one up again.
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