Alcove

Alcove is a 5.6% Brett saison from Formula Brewing, a small batch brewery, taproom and beer garden in Issaquah, Washington.

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Brewery Description

New today: Alcove, Brett Saison, 5.6%

Punctuation lightly normalized.

Source: Formula Brewing: home page Instagram feed, from the brewery's Instagram post shown there.

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

Beyond the Brett saison label, no ingredient for Alcove is published on the brewery's home page, beer and drinks menu, or awards page.

Hop Profile

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Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines for Brett Beer call for Brettanomyces character at low to high levels, medium to high fruity esters, low to medium-low acidity, no bacteria, and ABV and IBU that vary with the underlying style. A 5.6% Brett saison fits that frame; whether bacteria were excluded is not published.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Formula Brewing is in Issaquah, WA. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Microbrewery.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Instagram.

Related

• Brewery: Formula Brewing

Links

• Formula Brewing
• Formula Brewing: beer and drinks menu
• Formula Brewing: beer awards
• Formula Brewing: Instagram post on new beers
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked formulabrewing.com, formulabrewing.com, formulabrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
• Not Found: IBU. Checked formulabrewing.com, formulabrewing.com, formulabrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name.

Research Notes

• The brewery has no beer pages; the style and ABV come from the image caption of an Instagram post embedded on the home page. The Instagram post link was opened, but its caption is not shown without logging in.
• Alcove was not on the beer and drinks menu when read, and the awards page did not yet list a 2026 GABF medal.
• IBU, grains, hops and the Brett strain were not found; web search was unavailable for most of this run.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: New IBU and hop searches found no matching recipe source or brewery beer page; previously recorded home-page and menu checks were not repeated.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery's post gives only the style and strength.