2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Sampled from a 750 ml corked brown bottle this beer poured a dark orange-caramel color with a medium sized foamy off white head that left good lacing. The aroma was dryish and chalky with light tangy candied golden fruits. The flavor was sweettart candies, chalk and was fairly dry with herbs and pepper underneath. The finish was long, chalky and had lingering pepper and citrus. Medium body. Eh.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Hazy Amber pour with big off-white head.
Nose is dusty with hint of sweet malt and earthy yeasts
Sweet Maple Syrup in front to an alcohol tinged bitter finish.
meh.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Hazy brown with bubbly beige head, medium-full body with medium carbonation.
Chocolate malt, yeast, and some citrusy esters and smokey phenols.
Funkiness is muted and sourness is not there. Too sweet and yeasty.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
750ml bottle poured into snifter. Grabbed this off the shelf at my local Total Wine to share with some buds. Golden color with a nice spicy/yeasty aroma. Flavor had slight hints of fruit and yeast. Middle of the road beer, good but not spectacular.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bready yeasty aroma from an amber pour with a big off white head. The flavor is a bit too sweet for me, root beer like. There is some Belgian yeast present along with a good deal of booze. Finishes fairly dry with a long lasting after taste. A little less sweet and it would be in my top ten for the style.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
750 ml. bottle. Pours a deep, hazy amber with frothy, creamy off-white head. Aroma has strong notes of farmhouse, musty, citrus, faint hints of toasted grain, light acidic. Flavor is very much the same. Mouth feel is medium body with high, fizzy carbonation. Overall, solid brew!
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
750 ml. bottle. Served at cellar temperature. Pours a medium, lasting off white head of long duration, with attractive lacing, over a clear amber ((SRM 9) body....nose is heavy sweet malts with raisin, plum tones, light molasses, brown sugar....taste is sweet malts with light dried fruits ( raisin, fig) finishing with a harsh fusel alcohol tones along with light allspice, pepper.....mouth feel is light, carbonation low. Except for the fusel heat, which is partially hidden by the pepper/spice tones, this is a reasonable attempt at a Saison. It is definitely not one of the best, but let this open up, it really improves. BJCP 7/3/12/4/7
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2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Obfuscated rust color, stiff buff foam and mediocre lacing. Potent grape, bubblegum, and cherry licorice nose; a concentrated candy smell. Some peach and vanilla afternotes. Flavors of Tootsie Roll, plum and coughdrop… some crabapple acidity… a shortlived phenolic and somewhat acrid aftertaste. Thick creamy mouthfeel more befitting an oatmeal stout; low carbonation. Completely not what I expected from saison in any incarnation. Sweet, dimensionless and boring.
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