Our Tastes-- Festive Ale

One of the few Rogue beers I have left to taste (until they come out with another). Festive Ale is a Belgian Style Saison Farmhouse Ale. Oddly enough, this boggles my mind. I normally think living in the SE when a beer says "festive ale" because of the local influence of a dark, high EtOH, slightly spiced "SweetWater-type" beer, but this is the antithesis of that. The nose is that of slightly sour sweet malt. Color is a cloudy heavy particulate dark mustard. Taste is clean with slight tart apricot undertones. 6.2%abv made with Two-row pale malt, Myrtle leaves, bitter orange peel, ginger root, Grains of Paradise and hopped with Czech Saaz then fermented with Belgian Saison yeast. I would definitely have another, just to myself.