Smuttynose Farmhouse Ale

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Saison
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

22 oz bomber served in my Smuttynose snifter. Pours a hazy golden amder color with a 1/2" white head. Moderate lacing coats my glass. Nose is bananna & mixed spices ( can’t really put my finger on it). Mouthfeel is lively with good carbonation & a tart fresh taste. The up front flavor is the Belgian yeast Smutty uses in this brew. Also, bananna, cloves, lemon & a slight hop presence. Alcohol is hidden behind all the aforementioned flavors. As I mentioned in discussing the mouthfeel, this beer is tart, clean & fresh. I drank it in March, but it would be a great summer beer.

22 oz bomber from Discount Liquors. Clear orange with a fluffy off white head. Lots of spice in the nose with malts and hefe notes. Creamy banana esters were not what I was expecting. Orange and lemon with pepper and a slight earthy funk. Lots of toasted malts underlying the flavors. Creamy wheat with a light lemon and banana sweetness. Pepper, spicy hops, earthiness. Decent beer. The slight funk/earthiness is a bit strange, but enjoyable.

Transparent and magnifying bright brass in color with a dust like fizz rising to feed an icy grey head. Aroma rises to the charge as well. Ginger, nutmeg, coriander and muskrit interweave with caramel and almond shells, encasing wheat stalks in the last summer season. Flavor produces a full array of much that is good in the world. Bright carbonation catches the tip of the tongue and then a hoppy edge interweaves with earthen spicing to balance the authority nicely. Almond sweetened honey oats treat with grains of paradise and a touch of ragweed over cracked wheat stalks. A trace of mustard seed imparts a rudimentary rawness over toasted grain while ginger and coriander impart the prevailing spicing. Fuller bodied like a good ol’ smutty, finishing with a numbed yet titillated afterlife that hums with coriander, honeyed wheat bran and ragweed hanging in the summer wind. Thanks for the bomber, tpkenned!

July 2006 - Golden straw color, pillowy head. Sweet aroma with a touch of farmhouse funky. The flavor profile was similar to Hennepin...a tad sweet and a tad "underfunked" for a typical saison, but delicious nonetheless. Wheaty base, fruity, spices and pepper and a touch of honey. Excellent for a summer night on the deck (which is exactly how I had it)!

I think Christian (alohaC) brought this to Logan’s tasting at PP bottle shop. Yellow amber color. Strong corriander aroma. Sweet. A hint of spice or sour in a nice way. Very nice.

Bottle. Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy medium to dark yellow, bottle conditioned. Aroma is moderately malty (toasted grain, bread), lightly to moderately hoppy (flowers, herbs, apricot), lightly yeasty (cobwebs), with notes of pepper, bubble gum, cotton candy. Flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, creamy/velvety texture, lively carbonation, lightly to moderately alcoholic. Well, it’s not very saison-like. It’s certainly a nice enough Belgian golden ale, but it’s way too sweet and candyish. Call it something else and I’ll give it a higher score, ’cause it’s not a bad beer...it’s just not a saison.

Honey colored, some wheat beer ’spice’ taste. Refreshing and satisfying beer. Hides alcohol well in taste.

22 oz bottle. Clear copper with a slight white head. Nose of pear, apple, citrus and mild funk. Tingly carb works nicely with a medium light, oily body. Taste is wheat candi and green cantaloupe. Dry and lemon pepper finish. Simple and refreshing. Good.