Lagunitas Sonoma Farmhouse Saison Style Ale

Bottled at Kennedy’s San Francisco. Hazy golden, average head. Cinnamon aroma. Sweet and somewhatpapery, medium bodied and lightly fruity. To straightforward and simple. More like a spiced golden ale, as there is no Belgian yeast character and the more bold malt character than spritzy crispness.

Name: Saison
Date: 03/15/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: clear light gold, fine off white head,
Aroma: sweet malt aroma with a light spicyness and a candy sweetness,
Body: big body,
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, touch of candy, light spicyness for balance, light bitterness follow the spices,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

(Bottle) Pours a clear golden body with a medium white head. Aroma of orange peel, clove, coriander, and toasted grain. Flavor of light citric and floral hops and some coriander. A bit ordinary.

Pours a transparent rich golden with a stringy-lacing frothy white head. Authentic aroma of sweet biscuity pale malts and some earthy grassy notes and a Belgian yeasty balance. Body starts lightly sweet and effervescent with good bittering hop balance with a touch of hay and some doughy notes toward a drier finish. Pretty true to style and very drinkable, but could use a little more body.

hazed honey yellow, small white head, no retention. perfumed mess. extremely thin and watery body, flabby carbonation, aspirin and nutrisweet flavored malt, potpourri spices. gross.

Tap at Blind Tiger. Crystal clear, pale golden colour. Aroma is lightly spicy with a fairly prominent dustiness over lean pale malt. Also some metallic/plasticy autolytic aromas. Thin-bodied with a fairly harsh metallic bitterness. This is a friggin’ trainwreck... I want my money back!

From the tap this poured a clear golden body with a few lazily drifting bubbles, all capped in a modest creamy white head. The aroma had some light pale malts, drying grasses, and a soft touch of soap. The mouthfeel was thick and slightly oily. It seemed like a drop of honey had been added to the flavor and the grassy bitterness grew somewhat, but over all this was an unexciting yet solid beer. Saison?

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Draft. Straw color with a modest diminishing white head. Lightly malty aromas, with pale and lightly toasted malt, hints of lavender, light cloves and other herbal scents, Nothing real strong, but enough to suggest that this might have a promise. Pale malt flavors with just some hints of floral hops. More a light golden ale than anything close to a a saison. Not a bad quaff, just not a saison.