Candlepower
Grimm Artisanal Ales in Brooklyn, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.71
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 ounce can. Medium gold pour. Rocky white head is enduring. Estery aroma is reminiscent of Oil of Bergamot and lavender. Flavor is slightly funky. Notes of preserved lemon, bitter greens, camphor and pine needles. Rather dry and spicy. Tasty indeed.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2023
at 05:28
4/10
Sweet, citrus, yeasty, shaken
Tried
from Can
on 03 Dec 2023
at 01:12
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
16oz can pours a fairly clear gold with a two finger cap of white head. Lemon balm perfumes out, grist, soft herbs, some wheat, some bubblegum. Flavor is lemon and grist and wheat, flower petals and lemon balm and lavender. Finishes herbal and medium bodied with some candy sweetness. Pretty good, a bit overdone on the herbs perhaps.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jun 2023
at 23:45
7/10
Tried
on 24 Apr 2023
at 13:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the brewery taproom, Brooklyn, 12/04/23. Clear golden blonde with a good sized white crown. Nose is straw, yeast esters, herb, grains, light pissy green berry nip, barnyard sprinkle. Taste comprises hedgerow, yeast esters, toasted grains, citric tinged straw, berry must, floral whisper, herb, lemon rind. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close. Solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Apr 2023
at 09:18
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at the brewery in Brooklyn. A bright golden yellow coloured pour with a sticky white head. Aroma is nice clean pils grains, cereal, grass, herbal notes. Palate is semi sweet, super crisp, fine highish carbonation. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, cereal grains, nutty honey monster, spicy hop, herbal.. Top notch pils
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Apr 2023
at 22:10
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
3-31-23 Urban Barley NYC MCM only
Tried
on 01 Apr 2023
at 01:19
4.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Draught at Lulu’s, 3/7/17.
Hazy, drab copper-beige body is topped by a staunch, off-white head showing good retention.
Yep, there’s the sage and the pepper. They certainly wasted no time getting to that. Behind it, they’ve decided to dump a boatload of malt in to balance. Honey, caramel, vanilla, graham cracker and just a touch of earthy, lightly estery Belgian character, but it’s very, very brief. No alcohol or flaw, but herbs and caramel for days....
The flavor/palate gets the worst of it as the sage is phenomenally overdone. Spicy and overbearing, the only thing stopping it from ruining the beer is the equally brutish, sugary, underattenuated malt that dumps a load of honey-drenched caramel down your throat. Spicy pepper notes do laughably too little to stop it and there is an astringent bitterness mixing with bready malt notes on the sweet, sluggish finish.
Whew! A little glimmer of the Grimm of old here. Thankfully they haven’t made a beer this bad in a LONG time. It’s funny though, this serves as the epitome of everything that is wrong with American "Saison" brewing. Can barely even tell if this thing is Belgian. Just a mess of malt, adjunct and hot esters.
Hazy, drab copper-beige body is topped by a staunch, off-white head showing good retention.
Yep, there’s the sage and the pepper. They certainly wasted no time getting to that. Behind it, they’ve decided to dump a boatload of malt in to balance. Honey, caramel, vanilla, graham cracker and just a touch of earthy, lightly estery Belgian character, but it’s very, very brief. No alcohol or flaw, but herbs and caramel for days....
The flavor/palate gets the worst of it as the sage is phenomenally overdone. Spicy and overbearing, the only thing stopping it from ruining the beer is the equally brutish, sugary, underattenuated malt that dumps a load of honey-drenched caramel down your throat. Spicy pepper notes do laughably too little to stop it and there is an astringent bitterness mixing with bready malt notes on the sweet, sluggish finish.
Whew! A little glimmer of the Grimm of old here. Thankfully they haven’t made a beer this bad in a LONG time. It’s funny though, this serves as the epitome of everything that is wrong with American "Saison" brewing. Can barely even tell if this thing is Belgian. Just a mess of malt, adjunct and hot esters.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Apr 2017
at 19:40
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours hazy gold into a snifter. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet yeast and sage aromas. Sweet and full with caramel and dough upfront turning to sage and banana before the mild earth finish. No peppercorn for me...
Tried
on 22 Mar 2017
at 20:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
4 oz pour on draft at City Tap House Boston. Slightly hazy golden yellow with off-white head. Aromas of sage, herbs, light citrus, flowery notes. Tastes of big sage, herbs. Medium body with a dry finish. Too much sage for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2017
at 22:27