“Embark on a journey through the bountiful fields of Demeter’s crops. This beer is a truly unique American Brown Ale that pays homage to the Greek goddess of harvest and agriculture. With a cornucopia of alternative grains including rye, oats, buckwheat, spelt, millet, sorghum, and rice, this brew celebrates diversity and abundance like never before. Hopped with Cryo Mosaic, Simcoe and Experimental hop HS16660.”

Glassware: American pint.

Appearance: Dark brown with a deep ruby tint. It forms a thumb of lightly tanned head which slowly peels off. A wet streaky lace is dragged down the glass.

Aroma: First thoughts are Jaffa-like/orange-infused chocolate which for one of us is not a good start. As it settles we’re getting more weedy notes, herbs, pine needle, sappy resins, citrus rind and green mango. There’s a hearty roasted malt profile to meet the hops too – definitely toasty, subtle coffee, grainy and spicy. There’s 7 different grains used which explains the complexity there.

Flavour: Interesting. We pick up a hint of Jaffa again but it’s not as direct as it was on the nose. Strangely enough the 2nd sip follows the nose as well with more resinous and weedy accents, pine and herbals. The malt is subtle but displays some rye spice, toast, nutty and quinoa-like grain as it punctuates with a kinda roasty, weedy and resinous finish.

Mouthfeel: A tad slippery and lean. Not much grip to it. Mild-medium body, carbed nicely. The 5.5% ABV is well placed.

Overall: It wasn’t bad it was just all a bit too pedestrian in our opinion. Feels like we’ve had one like it ten times before. Good but not great.