Redchurch Brewery, East End Sasion

Orange pour - mad fizzy. Big piney/orange smell off the bottleneck. Taste follows, then a minor pepper/farmhouse element. Can't taste the booze (6.9%) Some bitterness. Typical London beer hype is Camden, Beavertown and some others, but Rechurch have been around since dot, knocking out amazing and consistent beers. The Pale ought to be ranked close to Gamma Ray and the Hoxton Sout is, for me, possibly the greatest hoppy stout on the market. This saison mightn't quite reach those heights, but it is another example of this understated and apparently overlooked brewery doing things really well.