FM 966 Farmhouse Ale
Spoetzl Brewery (Shiner) in Shiner, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
5.97
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sample at Ginger Man Dallas. Clear yellow-orange color with a medium white head that evaporates steadily to an outer ring. Short strings of lacing. Aroma of fruit, spice and grain. Light-bodied with flavors of bready malt, fruit and mild spice. The finish is fruity with a short malty aftertaste. Average overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Surprised, this was actually a pretty nice saison. Elements of honey, meadow, some floral notes, and the yeast lilt. Soft and easy to drink. One of Shiner’s better brews.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
12oz bottle pours with a crystal clear deep gold body with a copper core and supporting a loose weak off white head. The aroma offers up a bit of sugary sweetness and then green apple and red apple slices to go along with a touch of yeasty spices and hay. The taste starts with apple sweetness and then it picks up mild spices just as the body drops out of this leaving a watery sensation. There is also a bit of drying into the finish yet overall this seems too sweet to be refreshing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5
Overripe lemon nose, funky overtones, some cheese, some garbage disposal, a bit of coriander. Clear amber, thick head. Dry, malt forward but a bit stale. Lemon present. Light body, watery. Clean finish. I forget what I paid for it, but I hope it wasn’t much.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Aroma is some banana, spice, cloves, wheat notes. Some earthy character to this, some pear and other sweetness too. Otherwise this beer is a bit on the average side, not horrible, but just so-so.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft. A- Spices, apples, pears. A- Golden color, clear liquid, white head. T- Light spices, low bitterness, light fruits. P- Medium body, average texture, medium carbonation, boring finish. O- A good ale, but not as much complexity as I would hope for from a Farmhouse. Subtle fruit tones and not a lot of bitterness in this one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
A light and dry saison. Yellow, and a fair amount of carbonation. Some light spice and a hint of sour grain. Its ok.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
bottle - Clear yellow pour, white head, mild yeasty and grainy malt aroma. The flavor is of sweet, grainy malt, some mild bittering hops, yeast, and a slight hint of citrus. It’s light to medium bodied and on the bland side. Okay.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Mild clean citrus aroma. From a bottle. Looks like pale lager with a decent head. Smooth and rather easy. A few saison attributes without going over teh top. Can drink. Good sizzle. Overall OK saison experience. Some bitterness build as the session continues.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12 oz. bottle for review from Shiner. For a mass-marketed saison, it acquits itself pretty well. General malty smell, with a bit of bubble gum ester after I’ve sipped a bit of it. Pours a golden, clearly filtered color under a thick but fizzy head in my Duvel glass, column of bubbles keeps on coming. Taste has that complex savory quality from wheat malt and what tastes like a Saison yeast, though it’s most likely Shiner’s house strain. No bitterness, just enough to counteract the normal malt sweetness. Definitely not a lawnmower beer, but the beer for after chores and before dinner.