Otley Saison Obscura

Brewed by Otley
Style: Saison
Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales

Serve in Tulip

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Cask by handpump at Hengler’s Circus, Glasgow - very cloudy brown, thin beige head, fruity nose, deep berry almost lambic flavour, mild traditional hop aftertaste

Cask at The Rake, London. Pours clear brown with very little head. Dark doughy malt nose, some ripe berries. Light to medium sweet flavor, some dough, leafy bitterness, wet wood. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Pretty dry to finish, dark dough, brown bread, leaves, dry berries. Nothing special.

UPDATED: OCT 13, 2011
Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, choclate - orange, pepper, sour malt. Flavor is moderate sweet, light light acidic and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110429]
6-3-6-3-12

Cask (handpump) @ GWBCF2011 - Great Welsh Beer and Cider Festival, Cardiff Interantional Arena, Mary Ann Street, Cardiff, Wales.

Unclear - hazy medium brown colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, sour malt, shoe polish, light chocolate. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration, coffee dusty, sour malt - yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110616]
6-3-6-3-12

Dark reddish brown with a brownish transparent head. Taste is a mixture of conventional porter (dry & smokey) with a distinct berry fruitiness permeating throughout.

Cask@GWBCF 2011. Coppery hazy colour with a small beige head. Aroma is wood, some grass, mild farmyard as well as some bready malts. Also some slight eggy notes. Flavour is much the same along with liquorice, earth and mild yeasty notes. No eggyness in flavour though.

Cask at the Euston Tap, London, England.
Dark clear reddish brown colour with small creamy off-white head. Fruit, yeast, berries and malt in aroma. Some dark caramel maltiness, some chocolate and some dark fruity hops in flavour. Short hoppy bitterness in aftertaste.

Cask-conditioned at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival, Cardiff 16/6/2011. Medium brown with a decent, off-white head. Sweet, caramel and chocolate aroma with some Belgian yeasts. Flavour had more the same and a warming alcohol finish. Fine.

Cask gravity at Reading BF 2011. Deeoish chestnut colour. Lasting ivory head. Some saison yeast in mouth some toffee malt. But ultimately I am not sure where this is going. Yes slightly saisony slightly dunkely. Ok with touch of choc on finish.