Bottle shared in Hackney - sourced from Beergium. Pours hazy orange with a tight, frothy white head. The nose holds tangerine find, pale bread, marmalade. Light to medium sweet flavour with crackery pale malts, mellow yeast expression, some citrus peel. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Moderately sweet to finish, with further crackery pale malts, wheat flakes, hay, lemon peel. Decent overall.

Bottle shared at Leightons place. Thanks! A translucent golden orange coloured pour with a lasting frothy white head. Aroma is semi sweet malts, Base malts, floral, citrus, honeysuckle,, light orange. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, orange rind, jammy orange, apricot tangerine, biscuity malts. Palate is semi sweet, frothy carbonation, light sticky,. Not bad. Lingering jammy fruits.

16.04.2017, 0,5l bottle (bottled fall 2015) @ home:
Big fizzy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet mineraly, dried fruits, sap, yeast, minerals, honey, old orange peel, flowers, hay, light malts, bark, sawdust. Taste is slightly dry mineraly, weeds, hay, flowers, minerals, old orange peel, light malts, grass, bark, yeast, alcohol, sap. Medium bitterness, slightly dry and harsh floral mouthfeel. Not my cup of tea, seems quite oxidized.

Honeyed farmhouse ale from a beer company in Oregon, from a 50 cl bottle. Very thick and rocky, bath foam-like, inches high, papery lacing, off-white, coarse head over a peach blonde, cloudy beer with ’dirty’ ochre tinge. Aroma of honeyed ’stroopwafels’, soap, white pepper, orange zest, warm apple cake, dried apricot, melting powder sugar, fresh camomile flowers, pink raspberries, hay, old dry lemon peel, sourdough, cloves, straw. Fruity onset, hints of pineapple, orange, pear and some banana, crisp and fizzy but not too sharply carbonated nonetheless, bready malt body, soft and juicy with sharper grainy edges, phenolic clove-like spiciness building up towards the finish along with aromatic honey aspects (clearly not all honey has been fermented here), hayish and herbal hop bitterness, floral, mildly bittering but still a bit peppery and sufficient to provide balance against the honey aspect, which sets this a bit apart from the classic saison standard. Rounded, soft and not at all extreme, but technically very accomplished interpretation of the style.

Hazy orange-gold color with a medium thick off-white head that diminishes steadily to a film. Stringy lacing. Aroma of citrus, yeast and malt. Medium body with flavors of herbal yeast, vine fruit, citrus and malt. The finish is fruity with a yeast and malt aftertaste. Above average overall.

500ml bottle. Clear, orangey golden colour with average to huge, frothy, mostly lasting, moderately lacing, white head. Floral and fruity aroma, hints of chamomile, notes of apricot and peach, a touch of honey in the background, peppery spicy yeasty overtones. Taste is dry, fruity hoppy, hints of green apple parings, subtle sweetness comes around in a combination of unripe apricot, mirabelle and floral hints of honey; dry, hoppy finish. Well balanced, some nice subtleties.

Bottle from Mikkeller webshop cons 2016-11-11 AR: funky, sharp yeasty, white grapes skin, AP: cloudy coppery, high fluffy white foam F: sharp yeasty, rich carbonation, funky farmhouse, white peppery, white grapes skin, orange soapy, floral honey

Bottle shared. Semi-hazy golden pour with a thick off-white head. Notes of floral hops, honey, farmhouse funk, peaches, apricots, some brett. Medium to light body, high carbonation and a bitter-sweet finish.

bottle shared. Thick creamy white head. Cloudy light amber pour. Pepper aroma. A very nice saison