 ryan (1673), Beltsville, Maryland, USA
Aug 7, 2007 Provided by jeffin7, unknown age. Muddy, opaque, gold body with a large beige head, slightly gushed on opening.Funky nose of orange, hay, dough, floral and pineapple. Flavor is bread, cotton candy, light spice, grainy, herbal and orange. Medium body is very soft with moderate, but gentle carbonation.
kmweaver (1813), Takoma Park, Maryland, USA
Jul 14, 2007 750mL bottle, about 4 years old?, courtesy of jeffin7. Thanks, Jeff!! Pours a very cloudy complexion; billowing yeast particulates in an orangish-brown sea; off-white head with patchy lacing. Dense, orangey and estery aroma; plenty of yeast and some spice. Soft, velvety mouthfeel: dense yeast and orangey chewy malts, with relaxed carbonation; some show of caramel from the age. Lengthy, dry orange and ester finish.
highpoint (23), lansdowne, Pennsylvania, USA
Jun 1, 2007 Light gold color, a bit flat. no aroma, clean. beer tasted like an american wheat beer, not even close to saison. too bad, mckenzie beers were fantastic at one time. again, not a "bad" beer, just not saison.
Ungstrup (10863), Frederiksberg, Denmark
Feb 3, 2007 Draft at the brewpub, July 2006. A dark yellow beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet with light spicy notes. The flavor is sweet and lovly spicy and fruity, and towards the end it gets quite hoppy, from a nice blend, which both lends it a good deal of citrus, but also gives it a dry bitter end. Definately more hoppy than your standard Saison - a nice exploitation of the style.
Ernest (4186), Boulder, Colorado, USA
Nov 18, 2006 Multiple samples, GABF 2006.
Body is hazy light to medium yellow.
Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), lightly to moderately hoppy (flowers, herbs), lightly yeasty (cobwebs, dough), with notes of lemon zest and clove.
Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly bitter.
Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately bitter.
Light body, watery texture, lively carbonation.
I fully expected this one to blow me away, but then again I felt that way about the Super Saison from this brewery as well. There are things I like here, and things I don’t. For being 6 to 6.5%, it’s remarkably thin bodied and watery; a far cry from the velvety decadence that is Saison Dupont. The yeast character is not so great in the raw sense (somewhat doughy) but pretty nice in the fermented sense (spicy, lemony). Decent balance if perhaps a little too light on the malt. I so wanted to dig this, and I kinda do, but it’s not a primo example for me.
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