Stillwater / Hof Ten Dormaal ’Bronze Age’

Stillwater Artisanal
Brewed at Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal
Style: Specialty Grain
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Serve in Shaker, Tumbler

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Pours hazy gold into a tulip. Bright white head with little retention recedes to hug rim leaving spot lacing. Sweet caramel, toast and honey aromas. Crisp with sweet honey and citrus upfront turning to mild earthy resin in the lasting finish.

375ml Bottle: Aroma of malt, grain, barley, yeast, herbs, rye, barnyard, raw spelt, herbs, and slight leather. Poured a muddy flaxen/apple juice/wheat/pale orange color with a small, creamy, dense, off-white head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Sparkling. Opaque. Flavor is lightly sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of malt, grain, barley, yeast, dough, raw spelt, herbs, and citrus. Medium body. Lightly dry texture. Average to lively carbonation. Malt, grain, barley, raw spely, slight citrus, herb finish is lightly sweet and slightly bitter. Just a mess of grains.

Golden yellow with a fluffy white head. Some vegetal notes on the nose, but good layers of citrus fruit. Medium bodied saison with a mix of Belgian yeast an herbal flavors. High in carbonation, long complex finish.

(375 ml from Oak Street Provisions) Gold/light bronze body with some haze. Tall, lumpy off-white head. Aroma of yeast and grain. Mouthfeel smooth, medium-full. Flavor is yeasty, bready (kind of) but the spelt gives it a unique kind of bready/grainy-ness. Mild, interesting.

Draft a bad apple. Pours hazed and golden with soapy white head. Aroma is rather spicy white peppercorn and yeast, honey with a real floral hopping. Flavors are again rather spicy but the honey meets it well, white pepper up front but a sweet floral and honey middle, a bit phenolic and spicy in a long finish. Pretty tasty saison, only issues really is the body, it’s thin and the feel is flabby.

375, corked and baled. Cloudy medium gold with a loose white film on top. Big interesting funky grainy nose, some really nice freshness to it that makes you feel like you’re out in a grain field on a hot dusty day. A little bit of barnyard funk to it, but tinged with a sweetness--barely funky at all. Maybe it’s an acetobacter tang. Creamy medium body with bright and lively carb. Nutty, slightly corny, grainy, husky mid-palate, with some light white-pepper esters near the finish. Very pleasant drinkable. Another Stillwater that’s interesting and fun to drink.

Bottle. Golden bronze light color. Lots of head. Smokey earthy flavorful scent...not much on the tongue but quite dominant on the palate of full of flavorness...pretty good...Aroma is the best quality

375ml bottle: pours a clear bright golden with a stringy-lacing froth of white head. Has a lightly sweet biscuity malty nose with some floral hoppy notes and a touch of light graininess and sweat. Starts with pretty good fullness and light effervescence with soft doughy sweetness and a clean resiny hop bitterness before a drier bittersweet finish. Well-balanced and very drinkable.

Tap at smoke and barrel. Hazy nectar pour with a small white head. Huge dough and citrus nectar fruit with very low levels of nail polish remover. Lemon and orange peel give way to yeasty dough and dry herbals. Medium body with low carbonation and a super dry finish.

A - pours very cloudy straw with little off white head. S - aromas of bready yeast, sour notes, bubble gum. Nice funky fruity smell. M - high carb light body. Very weak palate. Smells are great tastes are non existent. T - barnyard funk and Belgian yeast up front. Bubble gum and bitter grains on the palate. Lingering sour cheese funk. Very weak palate. O - great farmhouse ale aromas, weak bland bitter tastes. 6/6+