Little Lobster on the Prairie
Blue Lobster Brewing Company in Hampton, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Prairie Artisan AlesFarmhouse - Saison Regular
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Score
7.59
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at the BIG 2-page tasting, thanks to Colin. It pours cloudy pale orange with a medium white head. The nose is fresh, barnyard, light manure, apricot yoghurt, peach, earth and funk, The taste is crisp, tart, orange, peach, apricot, sherbet, creamy feel, earth, funk and minerals with a dry, tart finish. Medium body, fine-moderate carbonation. Clean, crisp, balanced and very drinkable stuff. Really rather nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle shared at the Brokeback Revisited tasting in London. Huge thanks to Colin for this NH beast. Pours hazy yellow-gold with a mellow, foamy white head. Lovely aroma, lots of dry hay, dry dough, subtle yeast, tangy lemon, hints of funk. Nice flavor with moderate sweetness, semi-dry citrus, white wine, melon, grapefruit, pithy tangerine, light funk. Light bodied with lively carbonation. Very clean finish, lots of lemony tang, dry and subtly crunchy straw, touches of bretty funk. Delicious. Well balanced and supremely drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750 ml bottle from Blue Lobster shortly after the release. Hazy pale yellow with out any head to speak of. Nose is pleasant. Tart apple or pear fruits, Brett like funk that is real mild and some grassiness. Flavor starts off with some musty basement, followed by pale malts and fruits. The grassiness follows in the finish just like in the aroma. Light puckering in the taste buds with light acidic notes. Brett is mild and has a nice rustic appeal. Overall I enjoyed this brew, nice job Dave!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle courtesy of AirForceHops. Funky wet straw, pineapple, and tangerine aroma. Hazy golde yellow with a moderate white head. Funky musty brett and slightly tart lactic lemony flavor. Medium body, lively carbonation. Very enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Aroma is full of brett fruit notes - lots of cherry and tropical fruit. Moderate cirrus note and light graininess. Pours a cloudy yellow hay with a thin white head that recedes quickly. Almost no lacing and no legs. Flavor is similar to aroma with some light, sweet graininess and a lot of tropical fruit and cherry notes from the Brett. Light bitterness and a touch more sweetness in the finish. Moderate citrus notes and acidity. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with medium high carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall a pretty nice beer with quite a bit of Brett character in both the flavor and aroma. Nice balanced acidity with citrus notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to Brian! Pours a hazy pale gold with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a light grassy hoppy note with a bit of funk and a nice light funkiness. Flavor starts with light grains and grass that grows with some funkiness and a light sour finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ home, courtesy of Lukaduke. Thanks so much, Luke! Pours a cloudy bright yellow orange appearance with a nice white head. Nicely spicy, herbal hoppy aroma in which their tropical fruity brett is center stage with lots of mango, pineapple, vanilla, bubblegum, light banana, and a touch of oak. Tart, quite juicy, lemon, tropical fruity, mango, guava, vanilla oaky, sweet juicy flavor. A fair amount of bubblegum in the aroma and flavor. This was a really nice beer, but I guess it didn’t move me like some other saisons.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ML bottle. Bright gold with 1 finger white head. Sticks around. Nose is orange peels and a touch of sulfur. It has an up front rotten egg taste. Sorry Dave. Lots of melons and oranges. Brett is there in a leathery way. Very dry. Lemon zest finish and also grassy. The sulfur nose and taste is a turn off. Everything else is great.
Update: I opened a second bottle and the sulphur and eggs are totally gone. Much more fruity and juicy on the nose and palate. Mouthfeel and appearance are obviously unchanged. Bumped the review up.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Bert’s Pours a lightly hazy medium straw color with a decent sized bone white head that slowly dissipates to a cap. Aromas of bready wheaty malt with hints of pear and grass with a light bretty funk. Flavor is sweet and fruity tart with bits of lemon and pomme fruits. Light earthy hop slides in as well as a touch of ethanol. Light bretty funk just adds a nice layer of rustic complexity. Medium body with a spirited level of carbonation and a sweet slight funky carbonic acid twinged mouthfeel. Very nice beer right here! Lots of layers a bit rustic very nicely done!