3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. High lasting white fluffy head. Hazy yellow body. Distinct coriander aroma. Very spicy yet mild fluffy flavor with little hops bitterness, low carbonation and a long aftertaste.
3.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled - GBBF 2008. A hazy yellowy gold coloured beer with a white wisp of head. The aroma is prefumed and flowery with spices and lemon. The taste has peppery spicy hop. Some funk and some lemon, but short and sharp.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at GBBF 2008 Pours hazy golden. The aroma is a bit green nutty like a filbert nut maybe with some soft citrus there as well, strangely I also get a waft of cooked pasta and a bit of perfume. Lovely fresh spritzy, zesty refreshing flavour, great taste nice soft malty flavours but quite drying and citrusy as well, I liked this a lot and would regard this as one of my beers of the festival.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: NOV 20, 2008 Bottle at GBBF... golden yellow ... very lemony hop nose...very light little dry fruit lemon ... 3.1Bottle at home ... from gbbf haul ... Golden yellow ... lemon spicy hop ... very light ...big peppery spice ... light hop ... little lemon ... light dryness...little lavender3.1
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
My Bottom Line:
This highly spicy Saison benefits from citrusy undertones to assuage the gingerbread dessert perfume and increase drinkability.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam tops the hazy blond.
-The Troll brewer is an herborist. That explains the concept behind a lot of their beers!
-The body is very light (this is 3.9% abv after all), which is kind of a strange choice for those dessert spice leanings.
-The flavors are not as expressive as the aroma had let on.
-This beer is also brewed with a strange moss which is responsible for part of its unique personality.
-Base cereal flavors are quite polite.
-A subtle hop bitterness clinches each sip.
On tap at Bir&Fud, Rome.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle@GBBF2008. Golden colour, mediumsized white head. aroma is spices, tomatosauce, some juniper and mildly earthy. Flavour is lots of juniper, spices, some ginger and mild fruity hops.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
[1477-20080601] Bottle. Yew pine or juniper sap aroma with needles and resin notes mixed in along with weird dusty flowers (like at a dried flower store). Slightly hazy, orange brown body with a quick bubbly off-white head. Flavour is resiny and buttery, like sucking on a fresh evergreen sapling. Watery medium body. Interesting.
(4T @ Mondial; Montreal, QC)
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at GBBF ’08. Many thanks to Christian for this reminder that there is for us North Europeans an undiscovered world of beer south of the Alps. Gold. Positively startling tomato ketchup aroma. Peppery cucumber taste thrown into focus by a sour sparkle. Thanks to oh6gdx for the identification of juniper in the flavour. Altogether an odd and rather appealing beer.
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