Little Creatures releases new single batch Saison

Editorial:

Little Creatures can be viewed as a bellwether, useful to gauge Lion’s attitudes to the craft beer market.

While its stable-mate, James Squire, seems to have evolved so each of its beers is positioned towards the lower margins of its style’s flavour range, Little Creatures’ brews have generally sat bang in the middle of the range of theirs.

Creatures’ signature Pale Ale and its newer IPA, and even its recent Brown Ale, have shown themselves to be almost style archetypes, highlighting all of the key elements of their styles, while maintaining essential balance and the pristine production values that big breweries pride themselves on. There are many very good, more extreme, versions of each style across the market, but Creatures manages to provide true-to-style flavour, with balance and quality, consistently.

Little Creatures foray into making a Saison as their next single batch was thus much anticipated at Australian Brews News as it’s a much loved style. The signature yeastin

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