3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottles from kramer at BCTC and JCB at Todd’s house a month or so ago. This is a pretty tasty American made saison. Nice and dry overall, with just the right amount of sweetness from the honey. Tasty and very sessionable.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle @ RB BCTC gathering 2009. Pours a hazed golden orange. Honey sweet funky aroma. Taste was honey sweetness with herbal like spiciness with a touch of funk. went back for seconds on this one. Thanks to Kramer
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
750ml at CL CdC release and DMac UFC-100 release- notes combined. Pours a hazy blonde body with high carbonation and a cloudy billowing white head. Aroma is lemon zest, tart, grassy herbal hoppiness, saison Belgian yeasty phenols, spicy, salty and slight leather. Flavor has a good toasty bready malt base with a good salty phenolic, light plastic turning to lemon zest, slight tartness, more earth leather, and grassy hops and a dry tart finish. Nice.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at the Cuvee de Castleton release at Captain Lawrence thanks to a rather generous soul. Pours a hazy gold with a thick white head. Light funkiness, leathery brett. Medium bodied with a nice sourness to it. Finishes remarkably woody and dry.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours copper with a white head. Smells of perfume, grassy, dry malt. Tastes of pilsner malt, lightly spicy and perfumy with a funky finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
@dmacs UFC100 Gathering courtesy of dmac himself-750ml bottle–pours a retaining off white head and cloudy gold color. Aroma is light malt, spice hops, honey. Taste is sweet light malt, spice hops, honey, some tart on finish. OK effervescence.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
750 ml cork and caged bottle purchased at Capones several months ago shared at the UFC 100 gathering. Poured with a giant frothy mostly white head sitting atop a hazy nectar orange colored body. Aroma was sweet and floral with some additional notes of toast and citrusy lime. Medium bodied that I found to be only slightly dry on the finish with light carbonation. Flavor had an odd waxiness about it with additional notes of grass, honey, flower petals and toast. Interesting and nice but traditional saisons are still not my style.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750mL cork and caged bottle courtesy of a generous BA poured into a tulip.
Pours a bright, hazy golden orange with a little bit of sediment floating around. The head is massive and leaves thick lacing along the sides.
The aroma is dry and grassy, with more than a hint of sweetness from the honey. There is plenty of light fruit, especially pears and apples and some subdued peppery spices. There is a faint hint of funk, but it’s barely there.
The taste has an initial lemony tartness that I was not expecting given the aroma. The sweetness from the underlying yeast forms a backbone along with honey-dipped pears. The finish is very, very dry and crisp, bringing back the grassy character that was so dominant in the nose.
As mentioned before, very dry mouthfeel with lively carbonation and a tad sweeter than most saisons, likely the honey coming through.
This is definitely a very good saison and the honey adds a bit of complexity and balance to the underlying dryness of the saison. Well crafted beer.
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