Saison (pre-2009)
Yards Brewing Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.27
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
12 oz bottle-pours a foamy white head. Color is a cloudy straw. Aroma is fruity, coriander. Taste is fruit and coriander, dry-light grain. Good carbonation. Flavor is a bit of a let down from Yards other offerings.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Saison (pre-2009) from Yards Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
2005 bottle at Mondial, 6/5/05. Pour is a light yellow, with some slight rusty orange tints. Small white head is well-retained, but provides little lacing. Beer is rather clear, as well. Aroma of light grains, bits of honey, but mostly dry, cornmeal and white pepper. Some drying, old coriander in there too. Flavor begins with a dry herbal note, coriander and oregano like spiciness, backed with grainy, husky malt texture, but little to no malt sweetness. Peppery carbonation interupts what should be a fluffy mouthfeel. Seems like it’s all fully attenuated aromatic malt, but they say pilsen malt. Well whatever it is, there’s no sweetness. Dry, mostly water, though it wasnt thin. Bits of light grassy bitterness, and hints of orange rind. No residual sweetness from the candi sugar either, which I would not have know this to contain. Yeast is dull and not very apparent. Ok, well on that note, I’m going to stop writing about this. Suffice to say, it wasnt much of a saison.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Saison (pre-2009) from Yards Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Slightly hazy golden coloured body with orange highlights and a super-thin white head that fades very fast. Aroma of corinader seed, curacao, alcohol and some white grape juice. Medium-bodied; Strong spiceyness up front fading into just a little malt and some curacao. Aftertaste is very quick and only shows some of the bittering spices. Overall, a decent attempt by an American to make a Saison, but not even close to the definitive beers of Fantome. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased at Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on 17-December-2004.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Paid $1.50 for a 12-oz single. Golden with a nice head. Smells like beer-tent beer. Flavor is grassy and sweet. Plain.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
The old saison was ok, bu the new one is much better. +++Sampled from a 12 oz bottle it poured a dark orange-yellow color with a small white head. There was a little bit of sediment. The aroma was light fruit and spice. If I had tried this blind I would have been certain it was a Belgian wit from the aroma. The beer was heavily carbonated which is always a minus in my book. The flavor had a surprising amount of hops to it. There was also some spice and citrus but the grapefruity hoppiness was still the most noticeable thing. The finish was bitter. In the end we have here a "saison" that smells like a wit and tastes like a pale ale and manages to do neither particularly well.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Saison (pre-2009) from Yards Brewing Company 24 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
While rather uneventful under normal conditions, Yards Saison improves BIG TIME after a year in the cellar. So much complexity, yeastiness, peppery-malty flavours and barnyardy acidity, it's hard to believe that it's the same beer. Give it a year and see what I'm talking about.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Very easy-drinking beer - as a saison should be. Good summer choice. Initial taste is malt, but hops show up in aftertaste.