Collaboration Time III
Maine Beer Company in Freeport, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Nøgne ØFarmhouse - Saison Special Out of Production
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Score
7.05
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Brewed with a new friend, Kjetil Jikiun, founder and brewer at Nogne-O. Our aim was to brew a delicate, sessionable beer incorporating elements of the saison and hoppy American ale styles. We used a blend of our house ale and saison yeast strains. The result, an ale, golden in color, generously hopped, with background notes of saison funk accented by soft rye and wheat flavors.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours gold into a snifter. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Caramel and resin aromas. Sweet caramel and pumpernickel upfront turning to tropical fruit and resin in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2013
at 15:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy orange with a big head that is slowly dying back and leaving some suds on the side of the glass. Aromas are kind of odd... Almost an elderflower or violet floral edge to them with a bit of honey and pear or something sweet like that, but they are subdued and hard to pin down. Flavor is much more pronounced... A lot of that spicy rye flavor comes through and now I’m dope-slapping myself for missing that in the description of the aromas. There is a bit of other things that swirl around the rye, like the honey and floral notes with a little pepperiness. Good stuff and fairly interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2013
at 19:29