Harpoon Brewery 100 Barrel Series #54 - Nordic Saison

100 Barrel Series #54 - Nordic Saison

 

Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

Collab with: Kissmeyer Beer / Cambridge Brewing Company
  Farmhouse - Saison Regular
Score
6.90
ABV: 6.1% IBU: 30 Ticks: 8
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7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at home in NH. Pours mostly clear yellow-gold with a frothy, white head. The nose has some wheat bread, sourdough, lemon peel, light floral notes. Light-medium sweet flavour with with subtle lemony tang, wheaty sugars, yeast, some tangerine, lemongrass. Light bodied with average, massaging carbonation. Decent balance in the finish, some further lemongrass, faint citric tang, dry wheat, straw, mild bubblegum. Pretty solid overall.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2016 at 17:25

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a snifter. Hazy golden with no head. Aroma is nice citrus, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is citrus and some yeast.
Tried on 09 Jun 2016 at 18:48

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Tap at Warden Hall, Boston. It pours lightly hazy golden with a thick white head. The nose is white bread, spice, herbal notes, ginger ale, cereal, hay and grass. The taste is smooth, bitter - sweet, bready malt, cereal, peppery spice, ginger, lemongrass, cracker, lemon zest and herbal/grassy notes with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Well-rounded and drinkable. Decent.
Tried from Draft on 28 Sep 2015 at 13:00

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottled dated enjoy by 10/15/15.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a hazy bronzed orange color with a slim finger’s worth of white foamy to bubbly head that dissipated fairly quickly.
Light lacing roamed here and there.
The smell started off with some iced apples, sweet lemon, sweet freshly cut grass, herbal sweet earthiness, light breadiness, bananas, and a little bit of clove.
The taste was moderately sweet and backed up nicely by the herbal and earthy qualities. The breadiness adds a little bit more with a sweet sprucy touch in the flavor to boot. A lingering dry sweet bready aftertaste leads into a sweet bready finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sweet stickiness rolling along my tongue. Carbonation felt refined and light. Its fairly sessionable.
Overall, I was a bit surprised by this. I had some lower expectations and it turned out better than I’d thought. I’d have again.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2015 at 15:13

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Tap at the Jeffrey as sustitute for brew I really wanted which kicked. Orange gold pour electric white head. Nose is bready and candies citrus. Tastes of cloves, bread, ginger, apricot, earthy bitters. Light palate. Tasty but not a lot of depth.
Tried from Draft on 14 Aug 2015 at 16:59

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Pours hazy gold into a tulip. Bright white soapy head with medium retention recedes to coat surface. Banana and clove aromas. Sweet candi and citrusy yeast upfront turning to dry bitter earth and marshmallow in the lasting finish.
Earlier Rating: 8/5/2015 Total Score: 3.8
Pours hazy gold into a tulip. Bright white soapy head with medium retention recedes to coat surface. Banana and clove aromas. Sweet candi and citrusy yeast upfront turning to dry bitter earth and marshmallow in the lasting finish.
Tried from Can on 05 Aug 2015 at 16:42

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Hazy orange, 1 finger head that fades slowly. Has a pretty standard Harpoon yeast aroma. Clove, nutmeg and cinnamon. Lots of unfermented sugars, yeasty, with spice, good taste, has chamomile and aloe. herbal. the yeast does make this difficult
Tried on 26 Jul 2015 at 17:47

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Poured from growler thanks Michael for the Ratebeer Farmhouse Magnum Tasting. Hazy golden color with a thin white head. Aromas of yeast clove and bananna. Taste is crisp with a lingering spice note. --- Beer merged from original tick of 100 Barrel Series #54: Nordic Saison on 25 Jul 2015 at 17:57 - Score: 7
Tried from Growler on 25 Jul 2015 at 16:56