Knitting Circle Season 6 Batch B
What Our Editors Thought
“Riesling-like notes meld with lemony pine—so vivid it borders on artificial—but it’s impossible to drag the nose away. Defined lemon tartness on the palate with a delightfully delicate touch, as the botanicals build a tonic-like base. Crisp, dry, and deeply pleasant.”
What Our Panel Thought
“Spruce tips collide with nuanced gin-botanical aromatics, earthy pine, a hint of oaky funk—one could live in this glass. Upon sipping, the experience is a directional shift, with heavy doses of lemon peel and flesh amid the more nuanced oak and spirit complements. Piney characteristics quickly fade into a lightly sweet malty body with balancing oaky tannin and distinct juniper-like bitterness. Light, crisp body goes down smoothly, and a nice lemonade-meets-ginger note arrives in the finish. Extremely well executed.”
What the Brewers Say
“A saison brewed with foraged fireweed in 2023 and aged in neutral gin casks for 12 months. Before packaging, we steeped fresh-forage fir tips and primed with a housemade ‘mugolio,’ aka pine-cone syrup.”
