Yuzu
Godspeed Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.09
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Beginning as a saison and finishing as something more enigmatic, Yuzu combines Japanese citrus and Belgian yeast, with restrained hopping to create a light, lively beer accentuated by mild tartness and minerality. Yuzu is a tremendously aromatic fruit: you’ll smell the beer being poured from across the room. The combination of fruit and saison characteristics creates a dramatic nose of freshly-peeled clementines, all pith and bright orange. The acidity helps smooth and hone the minerality that gives the simple beer complexity, and allows for a crisp but memorable finish
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at 73 Enid Street, 06/12/19. Clear golden orange with a decent off white cap. Nose is yuzu zest, citric rinds, spruce, grass. Taste comprises lemon sherbets, yuzu, grass, light weed, mandarin, toasted malts, mellow yeast esters. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with juicy citric laden hop bitterness. Not bad.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2019
at 08:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
8th December 2019 Can. Light haze on this gold beer, good white head. Terrific yuzu nose, tangerine, mandarin and lime. Palate is light and has a reasonable fine minerally crispness. Light malts. For me the saison yeast gets in the way here but I ain't a big fan of Saisons. It just unnecessarily masks the wonderful yuzu flavours that are not quite as intense as the nose. Light finish. Love the yuzu but a saison is not the best delivery mechanism.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2019
at 23:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at 73 Enid Street. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a fine loose white head. Aroma is fresh clean citrus, lemon, grapefruit, pale grains, lemon shurbet.. Flavour is composed of light straw, pils, cereal, lemon rind, lime zest, grapefruit. Palate is crisp, light tart, highish carbonation,
Tried
on 06 Dec 2019
at 16:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
355mL can, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out bright citrus upfront, with some orange zest, and rustic saison yeast. Flavour is not as invigorating, with muted citrus, some orange zest, and spicy saison yeast. Has a rather seltzery character. Kinda meh.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jun 2019
at 02:15
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
A bit of haze, amber, but not much head. On the nose, quite a bit of artificial yuzu, and a slightly biscuity malt character. There's a bit of yuzu on the palate, and it's clashing with the biscuity malts, and maybe too much bitterness as well. The balance isn't quite right here.
Tried
on 20 Jun 2019
at 02:07
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from the brewery. Nice yuzu nose, crackery malt, light spice from the yeast. Hazy deep orange with a low head. Flavor is yuzu juice and peel, crackers, spice. Nice rich fruit quickly dries out, leaving a peppery, prickly finish that is a bit gin-like. Really subtle, lovely use of yuzu in a time when everyone seems to overdo it. Classy, and super refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 01 May 2019
at 10:35