Sasuga
Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating|
Score
7.11
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Sasuga is a farmhouse ale brewed with rice and aged in stainless steel tanks with brettanomyces.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to tulip.
Appearance: golden yellow to copper color with a quickly dissipating foamy head which didn't leave any lace
Aroma: dusty flowers, bready to funky tones, light lemon and tangerine sweetness; white bread and subtle Brett/sour but really faint
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine bready sweet to funky toned citrusy to floral quality; finishes funky dry with bready to tart and floral tones
Texture: light to medium bodied, leaning to be a sipper; some smoothness but ample amount of dryness hitting in a semi-sour and funky sort of way
Overall: pretty nicely done saison worth coming back to.
Bottle to tulip.
Appearance: golden yellow to copper color with a quickly dissipating foamy head which didn't leave any lace
Aroma: dusty flowers, bready to funky tones, light lemon and tangerine sweetness; white bread and subtle Brett/sour but really faint
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine bready sweet to funky toned citrusy to floral quality; finishes funky dry with bready to tart and floral tones
Texture: light to medium bodied, leaning to be a sipper; some smoothness but ample amount of dryness hitting in a semi-sour and funky sort of way
Overall: pretty nicely done saison worth coming back to.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2026
at 19:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up up in Maine. Bottled August 2016. Pours clear honey-gold with a bubbly, white head. Light sweet with with some musty lemon candies, low funk, some pale bread, ripening tangerine, suggestions of dried, pale wood. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. OK balance to finish, vague citrus notes, bread, lemon, low acidity. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2024
at 03:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught@TCBW2018. Hazy yellow colour with a mediumsized foamy white head. Aroma is very funky, some farmyard, bretty dry wooden and mild citrus. Flavour is funk, some green apple skins, dry wood as well as some rice/maizelike sweetness. Very drinkable, although the funkiness is quite attacking.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2022
at 16:28
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
Somebody put spice in my sake. Light faint sake aroma. Thin spice aroma. Like a light sake with a bit of spice.
Tried
on 26 Mar 2022
at 22:20
7.2/10
Hazy Deep gold.,Lots of rice present on the nose, light pear. Brett funk is present but fades as it warms a bit, oddly.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Feb 2022
at 16:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours slightly hazed gold into a tulip. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving trailing sheets. Rice and hay aromas. Crisp with earthy lemon zest and wet straw upfront turning to ripe melon before the slick mochi medium length finish.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2021
at 21:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at Before 9. Hazy pale gold, flat. Lemony, bretty nose. Tart and lemony, with a nice lightness from the rice. Lightly toasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Sep 2019
at 04:01
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Thanks Walt for sharing the bottle! Poured into a taster showing pale gold (practically white) with sparse white foam. The nose shows clean notes of natural river water with some subtle lemon. Very clean. The palate is well carbonated and light bodied. Mildly tart with a light white pepper spice and clean maltiness throughout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2019
at 12:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @Luppolo Station (Rome). Dorata limpida, schiuma bianca leggera. Al naso note di stalla, fieno, limone, citronella. In bocca è acidula, un po' corta, buona e pulita, ma manca di rotondità. Corpo medio-leggero, carbonazione medio-bassa. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2019
at 19:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Titans and MCBT. It poured a clear light gold, the aroma and taste is a bit oaky and funky like a geuze. Lovely.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Oct 2018
at 06:57