True North
Tall Poppy Brewing Company in Kontich, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.63
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kajser27 (3009) reviewed True North from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Unclear, orange-golden colored, medium white frothy head, good lasting. Aroma is of some malt, bit wheat, spicy yeast, some fruity, strawy and citrus hops. Taste is medium sweet malt, wheat, spicy yeast, fruity, strawy and ctirus medium hoppy, medium bitterness, yeasty, dry finish. Medium bodied, average carbonation, oily. (bottle, Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte)
tderoeck (22711) reviewed True North from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Tall Poppy True North (by Tall Poppy Brewing Company):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
27/I/18 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home - BB: 27/VIII/19, bottled: 27/VIII/17 (2018-34)
Clear blond to orange beer, big creamy light yellowish head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: floral, bit soapy, fruity, apricots, orange peel, malty, yeast. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, banana peel, pretty metallic, soft bitterness, bit spicy, soapy. Aftertaste: unpleasant bitterness, very soapy, bitter spices, lots of yeast, banana, not good, chemical, dry finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed True North from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
One of the first beers, if not the first, from this brand new microbrewery in Kontich near Antwerp, presented as a hop-forward saison - a deliberate combination of two general trends in present-day beer culture. Very thick and rocky (clearly hops-enhanced), eggshell-white head, hazy ochre-tinged peach blonde robe. Aroma of wet hay, dried banana, some DMS (cooked white cabbage), old lemons, peach candy, pineapple, bread crumbs. Fruity onset, apricot, pineapple and banana notes, sharp and bit numbing carbonation - a saison is supposed to be effervescent but the bubbles are just too large and coarse here to be fully agreeable. Bready malt base with a very thin caramelly edge, hop bittering finish, earthy and leafy, bitter honey, dried wormwood leaves, juicy maltiness remaining. Hop-forward Belgian blonde, but lacking in 'new' aromatic hoppiness to qualify as a modern IPA and in dryness, crispness and hayish 'rurality' to qualify as a saison - issues which occur constantly in Belgian IPAs and new saisons alike.
77ships (14506) reviewed True North from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanksl! Sampled bottle @ Modeste 2017. Hazy orange. Nose is strangely soapy with banana. Taste is soapy plastic, sugar, corn, BE esters & banana, bit sweet, not very hoppy. Not really into it but what do I know?
Kraddel (15844) reviewed True North from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Thnx to Jo ! Pours rather unclear blonde. Small white head. Smell is bit esthers. Mild bitterness. ( grainy touch ) . Taste is bit grassy, some esthers, touch of bitter in the back. Bit too yeasty to me.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed True North from Tall Poppy Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
No head to speak off, fully hazy yellowish-ochre beer. Malt, a serious touch of wholemeal bread, and a whiff of citrus for balance (good choice of hops). Sweet malts, and a hint of wheat acidity. Lots of yeast features. Yeast filled texture, end of bottle is solid yeast indeed. Very auspicious, not what one expects for a first try by miles! Txs to Jo!