3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours cloudy amber with a steady creamy off white head. The aroma is yeast, fruit, plum and caramel. The flavour is yeast, zest, oranges, dark fruit and some hops.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle shared at my 30:th birthday tasting on May 5 (30 år av Surt). Courtesy of rono. Pours hazy brownish golden with a big creamy white head that is rather slow to dissipate but doesn’t leave much trace. Smell is sweet and tiny sour with ripe oranges, orange zest, hay, plums, dark bread, barnyard and hints of bread spices. Taste is sweet, tiny bitter and tiny sour with dark bread, bread spices, lemon juice, lemon zest, plums and overripe mango. Mouthfeel is tiny dry, tiny tart and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and tiny tart with orange zest, dark bread and spices.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at "30 år av surt" on May 5, 2012
750 ml.
Hazy copper color, fluffy off-white head. Sweet, spicy scent. Malty, bitter, alcohol taste. Medium mouthfeel, low bitterness. Warming alcohol.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
750mL bottle from Leukens Dunedin. Pours a hazy caramel brown with an off-white head. Nose is all manner of fruit- apple, some raisin, grapes, dates, some slight cocoa, bananas, and berries. Flavor is a melange of flavors- a hint of earth, cocoa, esters, earthy berries, plums, overripe bananas, and other fruity esters. Finish is ephemerally fruity then it fades. Interesting saison overall.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Sampled at 30åravsurt
Hazy dark amber.
Some vegetables in the aroma along with sour, earthy notes.
Earthy, slightly mouldy, flavour.
2.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled:
Hazy chestnut colour. Foamy head. Earthy, dry cocoa aroma. Flavour is dry and earthy with notes of chocolate, toffee, winter apples and petrol. Alcohol bitter finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Brown color. Belgian yeast in the aroma and flavor. Light spice, and dry with grass and some fruit. Light palate. A solid Belgian ale.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Systembolaget. Lots of dried fruits, raisins, apples. Musty and nice to drink.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from Blue Dog on my V-Day lunch. Poured a mostly clear, well untill the end of the bottle, deep honey amber with an average sized fizzy off white head. Aroma has some classic saison spicey and pepperyness but then that is overpowered by a big crusty bread aroma from the darker malts. The medium body had strong fizzy carbonation and an average duration on the aftertaste. The flavor is much like the aroma where there is some nice saison spiceyness & pepper funk that is quickly overshadowed by a bland and ordinary crustry and grainy bread notes. Not impressed by this one.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
750 ml bottle; clear, light brown with intense carbonation and eggy light tan head billowing high in the glass; carbonation is an adventure with SW so far; fizzy chocolate wheat, a slight metallic note, caramel and some stale fruit; has a rawness to it on first sip crazy dry finish like some f the other beers; stale Belgian sugar, dried fruit and chalky malt; light mouthfeel with a little creamy and nutty roast; kind of interesting but wondering what it would be like with a little less carbonation; very dry and attenuated like their others and that again helps b/c there is no cloying sweetness or anything like that
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