3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
750ml Bottle - Hazy amber/brown in colour. Grapefruit, toffee, raisins and pine in the aroma. Fruity, tangy and hoppy taste with raisins, apricot, grapefruit and yeast detected.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
75 cl bottle @ home, 10 months after bottling. Amber to red color, hazy. Big, dense, off white head with long retention and good lacing. Aroma’s: sweet fruit, pine, some citrussy sourness. Retronasal it’s herbal, drop/laurel, sweet fruits, piney hops, toffee/caramel, fruitcake. Flavor is medium sweet with a hint of fruity sourness. Body is rather full, thick, syruppy, velvetty. Alcohol is well hidden. Finishes herbal, hop-aromatic, but hardly bitter. More a barley wine than a saison, but I quite like it.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
75 cl corked bottle @ home. Pours hazy reddish amber with an off-white head that leaves some lacing. Aroma is dried fruit, caramel, yeast, spices, and alcohol. Flavour is dried fruit, caramel, and spices – with some warming alcohol in the bitter finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at CGarvie tasting. It pours deep reddish-amber with a thick yellow-white head. The nose is fresh pine, orange, tangerine, marmalade, varnish, stewed pear and green apple. The taste is tangy orange, tangerine, pine, earth, spice, varnish, candy, apple, pear drops and a touch of alcohol warmth with a dry, bitter finish. Medium-full body, fine carbonation and slightly sticky mouth-feel. Good bitter-sweet balance. Tasty stuff.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours amber with a large beige head. Aroma is caramel, citrus, peach and light funk. Flavour is sweet caramel, alcohol, peach, grapefruit, light funk and citrus.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. amber with off white head. Resinous piney aroma, slightly peppery, grapefruit, orange. Resinous piney grapefruit taste, slightly peppery. Quite sweet, some alcohol, bitter finish. Nice
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
bottle at home ... copper ... thin tan lacing ... soft zezty soft fruit nose ... zezty toffee fruits ... juicy fruits ... zezty fruits .. zezty toffee fruits ... oily and juicy ,. sweet oily hops ...
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Big foamy white head. Great choppy evergreen nose. Good ticklish sweetness balanced with bitterness.orangey golden colour. Sweet but just controlled enough for me.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle @ Beer Temple. Hazy golden colour, off-white head. Nose is plasticine, sweet malted, bit citric, oranges. Flavour is sweet malted, bit sugary, alcohol noticable. Finish is fairly sweet.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Color hazy orange with medium white head. Aroma malt, caramel, fruits, hoppy, yeast. Taste sweet, yeast, fruits, spicy, alcohol.
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