Four Witches
New Holland Brewing Company in Holland, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Black Saison Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.13
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The Four Witches art, illustrated by Kyle Bice, develops on Golden Cap’s theme, with a nod to Wizard of Oz, as L. Frank Baum wrote the book while summering in Holland, MI. White and dark roasted wheat provide deceptively delicious body, and a playful reference to Oz’s contrast between good and wicked witches. Caramel rye and barley continue the story, along with a unique yeast character and mild spicing.
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CLW (17000) reviewed Four Witches from New Holland Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Willrunforbeer’s fridge clean out. 2013 vintage. 750ml bottle. Pours black with very thin tan head. Aroma is spicy, black pepper, light roast, and yeasty.
Taste has a black pepper throughout the entire sip. Maybe dark fruit and yeast. Gosh damn that yeast is spicy! Yikes! Entire to spicy of a finish. To be fair, this maybe held way to long but I’m not sure it matters.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Poured from bottle thanks Willrunforbeer 2013 vintage dark black with a thin off white head. Aromas of roasted malt prune alcohol spices and pepper. Taste is black pepper dark fruit robitussin. Not my cup of tea. --- Beer merged from original tick of Four Witches Black on 23 Mar 2017 at 20:46 - Score: 4
djd07 (28882) reviewed Four Witches from New Holland Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours black with medium beige head that lasts. The aroma is roast, caramel, raisin, rye. Thin mouth, similar flavors to nose, light spice finish, good.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Four Witches from New Holland Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Mine says: ABV: 8,92 per cent for the 2013 Vintage Deep dark brown coloured body, slightly muddied near the bottom, all wiht a nice, thick, two centimetre tall light brown head. Aroma of alcohol, grain, prunes, malt, chocolate and perhaps some light herbal notes - not much though. Medium-bodied; Assertive chocolate and earthy malt notes with some cloying molasses and unrefined sugar sweetness - focused solely on that with disregard for other flavour profiles. Aftertaste is once again, cloying malt and sweetness with a lot of alcohol, funkiness and pit fruits that make this pretty bad - definitely not a saison and definitely not worth drinking ever again. Overall, just as bad as the ratings would show, and I’m super excited in the RB community for not throwing reputation ratings at this one - rate a beer for how it tastes only and not a label, and this one is just pure bad. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Washington (I Street, Foggy Bottom), DC on 16-October-2014 for US$7,99 sampled at home in Washington on 24-January-2015.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours translucent brown color with tan head. Fruity aroma with some toasted malts and yeast. Lightly roasted malt and spicy rye flavors with some light chocolate and Belgian yeast. Light to medium body with lively carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a medium sized foamy-soapy dark brown head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was musty, yeasty, wood, burnt toast, fig and funk. The flavor was tart, sour, bitter and tangy with notes of wood, red wine, oregano and funk. Long finish. Medium body. Pretty awful - drain poured.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sampled at a tasting event. From notes. Chocolate and caramel with dark fruits. Slightly sweet and slightly bitter. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma of fruity roast malts. The flavor is sweet stout rather than any kind of Saison. The subtlety of a Saison is lost to the dark roast malts.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Pour is a black with a small tan head. Aroma is some char and roasted malt but very faint. Flavor is more char and sweetness with some sourness also there. Finish has some black licorice and more sourness. I agree with most on here. This thing is just a muddled mess. No Belgian yeastiness and way sour and mostly a burnt malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured from a 12 bottle. Pours black with a hick billowy head. Fruit wnd candy sugar aroma. Flavors of pears.