shintriad (698), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Jul 11, 2008 Four-year-old bottle, thanks Sammy. Insane head on this. Dark caramel brown and cloudy, sourish barnyard smells mingle with mocha. Puckering lime, salts, champagne yeast in flavour -- weird combo of sour Flemish with a cheesecake-sweet barley wine. Truly unusual, definitely great.
Dedoulequeen07 (128), london, Greater London, England Oct 7, 2008 Bottle Chris O’s. Caramel dark malts some sourish tones but nothing to overpowering. Flavour is brown sugar, fruity with slight funky wet dog character. Quite like a porter. santoslhalper (252), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Oct 3, 2008 Thanks to dpjuart for sharing! Dark brown with a nice tan head. Smells sweet, funky, grainy and gristy, with molasses and soy sauce. Strange taste. Chocolate, molasses, sweet cherry, plums, oranges. Craziness. Super complex with a lot of funk, but not all mixes well. And what is this brown crap around the rim of the bottle? fonefan (5569), Ulfborg, Denmark Oct 2, 2008 <b>Bottle 75cl. @ chris o’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2008.</b><br />Clear dark brown color with a huge, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is caramel, chocolate, sour berry, raisin, prunes, wet dog notes, some very nice and delicate sournesss. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, moderate acidc and bitter, sour with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. (020808) dpjuart (608), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA Oct 1, 2008 9/13/08 - 750 bottle shared with Exec Board. Pours black with fizzy/foamy khaki head. Nose is like a sweet stout, lactic and caramel. Tatse is roast and chocolate with lingering sour, lactic and oddly sweet chocolate taste with odd citrus/lemony after. Weird taste. Mildly sour/citric, roast and lots of chocolate. This bottle opened with a ton of gunk under the cap. Um, interesting. Nate (2291), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA Sep 21, 2008 Courtesy of dpjuart. This was a nasty looking bottle with gunk all over the cap and some blocked sewage pipe rusty crud in the neck after opening. Funky yeast sulfur aroma that lasted for quite a while - different people had different aromas around the table depending on when they poured the beer. Quite a lot of chocolate and mild alcohol once the nasty aroma fizzled away. Light body with heavy carbonation. Dark brown, a bit cloudy and a thin tan head. Watery tart start, with a bit of chocolate. Not what I’d call a typical saison, and I don’t think it aged that well. Not a fan of this one.
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