A Saison Darkly
Stillwater in Grand Mound, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Huisbrouwerij Sint CanarusFarmhouse - Black Saison Rotating Out of Production
|
Score
6.98
|
|
Brewed with dark malts and burnt sugars then lightly spiced with Rose Hips, Hibiscus, & Schisandra berries.
Sign up to add a tick or review
8.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 5/19/2014. Pours fairly pitch black color with a small dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of big raisin, plum, fig, berry, licorice, chocolate, cocoa, toast, dark bread, clove, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Fantastic aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, roast/bready malt, and spice notes; with great strength. Taste of raisin, plum, fig, berry, licorice, chocolate, cocoa, toast, dark bread, clove, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Good amount of earthy yeast spice on the finish; with lingering notes of raisin, plum, berry, licorice, toast, dark bread, clove, pepper, herbal, floral, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, roast/bready malt, and spice flavors; with a great malt/spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, crisp, and fairly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming present after the finish. Overall this is an awesome dark saison style. All around great complexity and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, roast/bready malt, and spice flavors; and very smooth and crisp to sip on for the ABV. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 18:47
7.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
It pours with the vitality of a coke, with so much fizz that I worry it will be horrible. It smells wonderful however. There’s coffee, raspberry, rye bread, sherbet and liqueur. It’s a little cloying in the mouth at first, but dissipates on the tongue, with aniseed and nuts giving way to coffee and soft hops. The 8% alcohol leaves a burning in the back of my throat like a smooth scotch. All up an odd beer but not unpleasant - don’t know that it knows what it’s trying to be.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2014
at 01:58
6.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 oz. bottle purchased at Julio’s Liquors. Black of course with fast fleeting head in the snifter. The aroma burnt barely, flowers and a strange fruit note, mild yeast.
Flavor is toasted grain, medicinal flower notes, red grape and a spicy/ herbal yeast toward the finish. After the sip it gets real herbal with a dry texture. Very herbal when warm, to much so. I’m still looking for a dark saison the I truly enjoy drinking.
Flavor is toasted grain, medicinal flower notes, red grape and a spicy/ herbal yeast toward the finish. After the sip it gets real herbal with a dry texture. Very herbal when warm, to much so. I’m still looking for a dark saison the I truly enjoy drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2014
at 19:43
7.2/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours dark mahogany into a tulip. White head with medium retention recedes to skim surface. Dark hot pit fruit aromas. Dark caramel and pit fruit upfront turning to dark hot sweet summer meadow in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2014
at 20:49
8/10
—
Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Brewed in Belgium by a brewer from Maryland, interesting beer with a yellowish beige, mousse-like, firm and stable head and a very dark burgundy colour, nearing to black, clouded. Aroma strongly and very invitingly perfumed, liquorice, dates, Belgian chocolates, cloves, kahlua, old port wine, rosemary, mango, bourbon... Taste of dark fruits and honey and thus sweetish in onset, resinous mouthfeel, rounded, nutty malt base which in the end even evolves into a coffee- and chocolate-like toasted bitterishness, even a hint of charcoal, finishing in a grassy hoppiness and some bourbon-like, warming but not astringent alcohol. Very interesting beer but I fail to see how this can be called a ’dark saison’ - more of an imperial porter to me.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jul 2014
at 09:04
6.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle. Ruby red glowing, darkest brown colour with average, foamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Multifaceted aroma has a dark malty basis, a fruity interstice, and a yeasty cover which collectively deallocate vinous notes of plum, cherry, dark berries, a touch of Marmite, herbal, earthy echoes of shrubs on the outskirts of a forest. Taste is vinous, dry, spicy yeasty, hints of plums, dark berries and their parings, initially subtle dark malty and sugary sweetness gains more weight and brings about a touch of burnt caramel; some warming alcohol in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2014
at 13:38
7.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dark color, large sample. Aroma of roasted malts, some belgian yeast, quite spicy, lots of licorice, some coriander and clove hints. Now that I read it, I can distinguish some rose hips. Thought there was some celery, coriander like note as well, so that might be caused by the flowers or berries. Quite dry, but quite some sugary finish as well. Soft alcohol burn. Elegant, though tough on the licorice. Feels very much like a spicy winter ale.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Oct 2013
at 12:28
7.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
8% from Ølbutikken. A dark brown, almost black with reddish tints. Milk chocolate aroma with hints of Saison esters. Light zesty carbonation gives it a refreshing mouthfeel. Fruity, estery at first, then the dark malts bring forth light chocolate, and it has a pleasant lingering dark chocolate malt finish. Quite good, an easy drinking 8 percenter.
Tried
on 27 Aug 2013
at 15:01