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RATINGS: 269   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.01   SEASONAL: Summer   EST. CALORIES: 186   ABV: 6.2%
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Our latest creation, MUSE, is a Farmhouse Ale with a distinctive Weyerbacher signature. Farmhouse Ales, by tradition, were used as restoratives for workers during the warmer months under the hot midday sun. Typically made with barley, sometimes wheat and oats as well, a Farmhouse Ale could be light golden to amber in color, but always with a dry, slightly tart finish, thus being a great thirst quencher.
Weyerbacher MUSE is light amber in color, brewed with barley and a healthy dose of raw wheat and raw oats as per tradition, to give it a mouthfeel that’s both silky and light at the same time. The wheat and oats add a bit of cloudiness to the beer as well, so don’t be afraid, sometimes cloudy is good! A very special Belgian yeast strain was used to ferment this particular brew, and it was done at downright “hot” temperatures, 78 F, in order for the yeast to develop its spicy profile that is expected for a Farmhouse Ale. No spices were added to this brew, its all from the yeast.
MUSE is hopped with Styrian Goldings for bitter, and Saaz for aroma, both just adding even more to the dryness of the brew. Putting it all together, you have a slightly spicy palate, with pleasant aromas and very dry, mildly bitter finish. At 6.2%, you’ll want another one so you can ponder this intriguing taste profile, and you may find yourself wondering why you haven’t explored Farmhouse Ales before!


3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
MartinT (6150) - Montreal, Quebec, CANADA - DEC 23, 2007
My Bottom Line:
Bready pale malts envelop the herbal, flowery hop flavors and their ensuing bitterness in this soft and slightly vegetal Saison.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A slice of foam tops the cloudy blond.
-The mouthfeel is rather authentic, which is not often the case in North American Belgian-style offerings.
-The carbonation is expansive, but a little breathing serves it well.
-That moderate vegetal scratch gets bothersome after a while.
-A touch of caramel is tasted within the hay and bread.

Bottle.

2.3
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
fiulijn (10000) - Como, ITALY - DEC 23, 2007
2007-11-30, Papsø’s Blind Tasting
Cloudy light amber color. Plastic aroma, like the warm lights on a Christmas tree. Medium body, with a quite bad iron and vegetable taste to cover the little malt, I suspect a quite bad yeast is also the culprit. Quite bad.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
beerking99 (199) - USA - DEC 21, 2007
Pours very cloudy, orange-amber colored, and with a medium white head. Aroma is faint, with notes of yeast and hops, but it is missing the musty root cellar aroma I expect in a saison. Flavor is soft malt with yeastiness and some hops. Overall, a little disappointing, but much better than the first bottle of this I had, which was infected with pediococcus. FInish is overly dry.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
JorisPPattyn (6428) - Antwerpen, BELGIUM - DEC 19, 2007
Good yellowish head, dense and slightly irregular over unclear orange beer. Nose of... well,...old slippers; a bit dusty, a bit sweaty, a bit cheesy, and, in a way, quite spicy... Old peanuts, shifting peanut butter, fatty acids to the fore. Dry it is, no doubt, but also quite aggressive in MF. Part of the flavours might well be the oats, seem to recognise it from porters. Point of acidity, the malt sweetness gone or completely concealed. Light to medium bodied. Again one of those weird yeasts by an USAlab, as well as the idea of high mashing temperatures. I wonder about their veracity. I’m still very grateful for it to whomever bestowed it on me...

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
FROTHINGSLOSH (3209) - GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA - DEC 14, 2007
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy golden-amber color with a small white head. The aroma was dry and musty with a hint of citrus. The flavor was bitter, dry, musty, slightly earthy and had a hint of citrus. A bit bland.

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
yespr (20656) - Copenhagen O, DENMARK - DEC 14, 2007
From bottle, no 13 at Papsoes blindtasting. Pours hazy orange with lacing white head. Spiced aroma, complex. Flavour holds a herbal and vegetable flavour with a subdued sweetness. Has a strange soapy and herbal finish. Strange and undefineable.

2.6
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 12/20
Grovlam (4106) - Copenhagen, DENMARK - DEC 5, 2007
#13 [Blind tasting session @ Papsoe 30-11-2007] Small fizzy white head that mostly diminished. Spare lacework. Cloudy golden color. Spice, herbal, grain, fruit, citrus and hint of other sour notes. Thought this was some kind of spicy/herbal/vegetable beer. Medium bodied with a light alcoholic texture and an average carbonation. Light sweet flavor with a hint of acidic. Sweet and spicy finish.

2.9
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Emil (6070) - Copenhagen, DENMARK - DEC 4, 2007
Bottle. A hazy orange beer with a off-white head. The aroma and taste is malty, fruity and spicy. Medium body with a light dry finish.


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