14th April 2013
Hazy deep amber beer with a good pale cream coloured head. Nose of generic fruits sherbet and malt cream. Palate is smooth and viscous with fine carbonation. Smooth malt cream supports pleasant generic fruit sherbet, gets zingy before turning slightly yeasty bitter. Mild minerals before a smooth finish. Fruity aftertaste. Unusual and tasty beer. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Super-Charged Saison IPA on 09 Nov 2012 at 10:31 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: 27th September 2012
Borefts warm up -bottle in the Hotel. Very hazy amber beer with a massive pale cream coloured head. Palate is smooth and soft. Nice toffee malt - smooth, mild and creamy. Some mild spice and a whisper of herbs (must be a saison then!). Nice mild marmalade hops. Aniseed alcohol. Finishes smooth. This comes over as quite barleywine like apart from the spice and herbs.

Bottled, thanks fonefan! Almost clear copper colour. Rich mango aroma. Sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Peppery caramel and mango. Fruity with pines and marzipan. Warming bitter finish.

Bottle in Hamilton, NZ, shared with nate2g and Brent. Murky amber brown color, large fluffy caramel colored head. Aroma of dusty summer fruit. Taste is funky and dusty fruit. Sweet, malty and boozy.

A popular US brewery in Scandinavia is Hoppin’ Frog who are usually unavailable in Japan but did this collaboration with De Molen. It is a double saison (?) hopped like an IPA. 10.4% Bottled on July 12th, 2012 & opened on July 12th, 2013. The color is a very dark opaque brownish-gold which isn’t normal for a saison. Powerful fruity hop aroma with hints of grapes, apricots, kind of a tropical fruit vibe, nice. Kind of boozy flavor but nice like a rich Belgian beer, the malts provide a solid full body, slightly spicy as it should be for a saison. An interesting flavor mixing hops, malts & yeasty spice which is quite delicious with each sip highlighting something different. Top knotch.

Bottle shared at Bruce’s during Jack’s Farewell Tour, Opening Night in London - big thanks to Jack himself. Pours hazy, deep amber with a large, strong yellow-tan froth head. Nose has some booze, bananas, a bit of yeasty bread, hints of tangerine. Medium to big sweet flavor, a lot of citrusy fruits orange, tangerine, mild alcohol kick. Full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Fairly warming and sweet to finish, lots of sugary citrus. A bit sticky sweet. Nice, if a touch heavy.

750ml Bottle - Hazy amber/brown in colour. Grapefruit, toffee, raisins and pine in the aroma. Fruity, tangy and hoppy taste with raisins, apricot, grapefruit and yeast detected.

75 cl bottle @ home, 10 months after bottling. Amber to red color, hazy. Big, dense, off white head with long retention and good lacing. Aroma’s: sweet fruit, pine, some citrussy sourness. Retronasal it’s herbal, drop/laurel, sweet fruits, piney hops, toffee/caramel, fruitcake. Flavor is medium sweet with a hint of fruity sourness. Body is rather full, thick, syruppy, velvetty. Alcohol is well hidden. Finishes herbal, hop-aromatic, but hardly bitter. More a barley wine than a saison, but I quite like it.

Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a hazy orange color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty hoppy aroma. Sweetish malty spicy yeasty bitter hoppy flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy yeasty hoppy bitter finish. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Super-Charged Saison IPA on 12 Nov 2012 at 07:20 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty citrus aroma. Sweetish malty spicy yeasty citrus hoppy flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy yeasty citrus finish.