Smuttynose Farmhouse Ale

An orange beer with a beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of fruit - especially oranges. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel and quite a lot of fruit, leading to a dry bitter end. Compared to the French farmhouse ales and Belgian Saisons, this is a very clean beer.

Cask@GBBF2009. Hazy orange colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity and flowery notes along with some mildly earthy notes. Mild barnyard as well. Flavour is quite much the same, but lacks some spicyness to be a really good Saison.

Date: 08/09/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

hazy amber, whispy frothy white head that’s eaisly roused into a creamy head leaving drippy lace, sightly tart big funky aroma, creamy body, big complex flavor, slight tartness, touch of yeasty spicyness, good earthy backbone
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Date: 03/10/2007
Mode: bottle

big musty aroma of dust and cobwebs with a slight tart edge, lots of yeasty fresh bread coming though, flavor turns sweet and spicy with lots of complexity like a sweet spiced Christmas cake,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **4

(22oz bottle) Hazy amber body topped by an off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, orange/floral, some caramel, light yeast/duskiness. Taste is moderately sweet, orange/floral, some syrup, sugar, light alcohol. Watery light-medium body, some chalk, low carbonation. I found it too sweet and not dry enough.

At GBBF 2009. Hazy orange gold colour, thin lasting white head. Bit estery/Belgian saisony. Not a bad stab as a Belgian strong. Pretty good to be honest. NIce rose petal fruit.

Cask@GBBF 2009. Amber color, white head. Slightly tart mango fruity aroma with hints of orange and strawberry. Sweetish, lots of kandisugar, light tartness, mango and apricot. Short fruity-sugary finish. A bit too sweet for being enjoyable.

A Mes rate. Gravicask at GBBF.
Orange body with a slight haze and a thin off white head. A really interesting and rather funky saison. Nice earthy malt and a pleasnt hit of sourness. Possibly not 100% true to style but a jolly good beer all the same.

Cloudy gold hue wears a nice white ring that shows particular skills at leaving good lacing on the glass. Soft yeast derived nose shows straightforward banana and fruit esters along with a mellow doughyness. Nothing too extraordinary here, but it discovers its powers in mouth, where the remarkably round maltiness, the secret Smuttynose weapon is the perfect match for the most excellent carbonation, the efficient bubbles being always there to accentuate this and that flavour at the right moment. Smoothly yeasty through and through, the noble hops offer conclusive aromatic support that doesn’t translate into aggressive bitterness, well extracted biscuit notes, cracker-like and altogether a fair fruit basket in there. There is definite potential of improvement, especially in regards to the use of more pungent aromatic hops, but there’s a solid basis there.