Naparbier Farmer's Choice

Farmer's Choice

 

Naparbier in Noain, Navarre, Spain 🇪🇸

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
Score
6.61
ABV: 7.6% IBU: 25 Ticks: 43
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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Aroma of malt, fruits, yeast, light farmhouse funk, citrus peel, spicy notes. Flavour is moderate sweet with a moderate bitter finish. Nice Belgian Ale with a touch of Saison.

Tried on 13 Feb 2025 at 05:05


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared. Hazy golden with a small off white head. Aroma of peppery saison yeast, citrus and fruits. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and light moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Feb 2016 at 13:33


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Thin white head. Hazy blond pour. Tastes like a saison. Nice brew

Tried from Bottle on 21 Feb 2016 at 13:33


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bright yellow colour. Aroma and flavour both have a certain spicy, herbal characteristic. Also a touch of lemony citric acid. The farmer can keep it.

Tried from Can on 16 Feb 2016 at 15:14


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Clear medium golden colour, large frothy white had, good retention and lacing. Fruity aroma, banana, bubblegum, candy sugar, dough, some vanilla, coriander, citrus. Taste is medium sweet, light bitter and light sour, fruity, spicy notes, long duration. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation, aftertaste sweetbitter, citric and alcoholic notes. Fresh feel, very smooth, well-balanced and tasty strong Ale.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Dec 2015 at 11:00


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

very hazy yellow colour, huge, though quickly collapsing white head; aroma of tropical fruits, some citruses, earthy, barnyard, floral and minimal peppery notes, some biscuit and maybe some vanilla; taste is the same - despite the intensive fruity sweetness, still dry mouthfeel; reminds me to Duvel with saison notes; great beer!

Tried on 10 Oct 2015 at 14:42


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Fonefan 110415. Golden-yellow colour with a white head. Aroma is yeast, citrus, malt. Flavour is sweet, fruit, wheat, spices, yeast, citrus, malt. Medium body. Ordinary beer.

Tried on 01 Oct 2015 at 13:14


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Tried on 18 Aug 2015 at 07:59


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle from Saveur-Biere.fr. Pours hazy blonde with fluffy white head. Aroma is sweet vanilla. Taste is fairly yeasty and Belgian tripel-y. Pretty sweet with a nice fragrant freshness about it. Yes, very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2015 at 15:58


6.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Naparbier’s interpretation of the ’Belgian strong blonde’ edelbier style, with a beautiful yellowish ’gold foil’ colour, clear (but misty with deposit), with medium fizz supporting a regularly shaped, dense, snow white head. Sharply fruity, sweetish and somewhat (artificially?) soapy aroma of yellow Zespri kiwi, banana, starfruit, citrus hand soap, strong bubblegum, touch of passionfruit, powder sugar, orange flesh, strong freshly cut apple, cream cheese, lemonbalm, lemongrass even, shortbread, cake and effectively added aromatic spices (I suppose good old coriander again). Fruity onset with strong, sourish carbo, a lot of apple, berries, starfruit, banana with sweet bubblegum and in that sense very ’Belgian’, lean and supple mouthfeel, relatively light in view of the ABV, elegant, sweetish malts in a ’clean’, smooth way, bit honeyish, finish is mainly a seamless continuation of this but some late, lightly spicy hoppiness shows up as well, just sufficiently bittering to balance the sweetness, apart from a resiny, drying spice effect (coriander); a wodka-like alcohol warmth is already present in the middle and gets a bit stronger in the end, but not becoming too astringent. Very elegant elaboration on the Duvel theme I would say, perhaps a bit too much tilted to the sweet bubblegum side and a bit too alcoholic. In any case not a saison, as the word "farmer" in the name seems to suggest.

Tried on 24 Jul 2015 at 07:32