Beer Works Saison Nouveau

Brewed by Salem Beer Works
Style: Saison
Salem, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Tulip

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Tap at Fenway. Pours a hazy coppery color with a fizzy head, and no lace. Aroma is wit-yeast like with spicy phenols ligth doughy wheat and some stale crackers. Peppery and lemon zest in the flavor, light crackery malts, some esters- banana and some solvent. Not much going on here and didnt strike me as a saison at all.

Bubble gum esters hang on the tongue, no spice and not dry enough for the style ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

1/10/2011 on tap @ Boston Beer Works (2011-479)

Blond clear beer, small white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of banana, passion fruits, phenols, spicy, liquorice. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: banana, citrus fruits, pretty spicy, pepper, bitter hops. Aftertaste: bitter and spicy.

on tap-pours a white ring for a head with some lacing and yellow color. Aroma is banana, secondary spice. Taste is grain, banana, secondary spice. Plenty of effervescence. Occasional.

hazy deep orange with a creamy white head, it has very strong aroma of orange peel and contains notes of coriander. the mouthfeel is yeasty and it finishes bitter.

A lightly hazed golden saison with a thin white head. A pleasant perfumey aroma with notes of bubblegum and curacao. In mouth, a nice saison with light bubblegum and spices, silky mouthfeel, very good, medium bodied. On tap at Lowell BW, Jan. 10 2009.

2010 Tap. Very interesting, spicy Belgian brew. Tastes sour (not in a bad way) with hints of cinnamon, lemon-orange, and a light hops finish. Aroma of lemon peels. Mouthfeel is smooth and clean. Excellent brew overall.

POured burnt amber. The notes of wheat and citrus dominate in the nose and the palate. The finish shows a decent amount of malts and sweetness.

UPDATED: OCT 31, 2007 Draught tulip at Fenway on 6/30/07
Peach with bright golden tints and a high clarity. Off white head is small and recedes to ring fairly rapidly. Little lacing.
Not sure what’s new with this. It dosent have any apparent American twist. It’s got the basic qualities of a saison, but how do I convey this? It just dosent have any good qualities. No bad ones, but no good ones. Rather uninspiring flavors of citrus, nutty wheat, very bland, lightly doughy yeast and too much bubblegum and banana. The attenuation is about the only strong point, but that dosent really do much when there’s no real interesting flavors to be displayed on the dry body. Too much nuttiness, light breadiness and overdone, crude esteriness. No alcohol noted, medium amounts of somewhat loose carbonation. Next.

Tap @Salem Beer Works. Pours an orange-amber with a slight, quickly-dissipating off-white head. Aroma is wheat, citrus, coriander, and slight bubblegum. Taste is malty, with fruit and spice notes thrown in as well. A pretty good take on the style.