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Brasserie Thiriez in Esquelbecq (Ekelsbeke), Hauts-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.19
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Dry-hopped French Farmhouse Ale
This particular beer is an interesting joint effort with an English brewery. It uses one hop varietal, a rather unusual hop grown in Kent called ‘Bramling Cross.’ The malt is from 2-row spring barley grown in France.
This particular beer is an interesting joint effort with an English brewery. It uses one hop varietal, a rather unusual hop grown in Kent called ‘Bramling Cross.’ The malt is from 2-row spring barley grown in France.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750ml bottle pours a hazy, deep gold with some clumpy, white head. Nose is honey, grass, brie cheese, lemon, some malt, a little cardboard. Flavor is similar, sweet, pilsner malt, grass, noble hops, light cheese, honey, floral, orange peel. Fairly high carbonation and a silky finish. I would love to try this uber fresh as I think the hop profile has faded quite a bit. Overall, not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2012
at 05:21
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Churchkey, shared with staff. My 100th saison rating, and also the last beer I shared with friends before jumping on the plane to Belgium. This one was a classic farmhouse beer, cloudy dark yellow, white head. Aroma of pine, hay and straw. Taste is dusty lemons and barnyard. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2011
at 18:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Location: Draft at Blind Tiger, 12/18/10
Aroma: The nose has floral notes, some spice, and some yeast/bread notes too
Appearance: This one is a hazy golden looking beer with a frothy white head
Flavor: The taste is somewhat spicy, a touch blonde-like, and with some floral hops
Palate: The body of this one is medium, its fairly crisp and a touch on the musty side
Overall Impression: Overall, I found this to be a pretty interesting saision. There is something about it that makes it feel almost blonde-like. It isn't one of the better saisions I've ever had, but it was drinkable.
Aroma: The nose has floral notes, some spice, and some yeast/bread notes too
Appearance: This one is a hazy golden looking beer with a frothy white head
Flavor: The taste is somewhat spicy, a touch blonde-like, and with some floral hops
Palate: The body of this one is medium, its fairly crisp and a touch on the musty side
Overall Impression: Overall, I found this to be a pretty interesting saision. There is something about it that makes it feel almost blonde-like. It isn't one of the better saisions I've ever had, but it was drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jan 2011
at 14:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. A hazy golden beer with a lazing white head. The aroma has notes of straw, hay and a touch of malt. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of hay and a bit of sulphur. I had it presented as an IPA, which I don’t think it is.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2009
at 02:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Pale golden coloured body with a nice dense frothy white head. Aroma of grass, hay, coriander seed, wheat, yeast and a light hoppiness. Light-bodied; Super mild taste up front that has a cold finish and a strong hoppines near the end with almost no malt at all to speak of. Aftertaste is a bit more mild - no harsh flavours at all. Overall, a nice mild beer, but not great if you wanted some of that saison or biere de garde taste going on in the beer. I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Liquors in Washington, D.C. on 31-December-2005.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2009
at 22:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a dirty beige color ale with a huge pure white foamy head with perfect retention and great lacing. Aroma of funky notes with some dry and bitter English style hops. Taste is also a weird mix between some funky farmhouse style ester with some dry notes coming from the English style hops with a nice Belgian style malt backbone. Full body with limited filtration and great carbonation. Very different but interesting experiment in the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2008
at 15:42
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 ml bottle courtesy of PhillyBeer2112, shared with my wife at SPIN! Pizzeria in Overland Park, Kansas ($1 corkage on weekdays!). Pour is hazy-cloudy copper beige with a massive fluffy 4 inch off-white head. Really nice looking. Aroma is of earth, spice, and yeast. Taste has a nice mineral earthiness; wet dirt, light pepper spice, and great fresh hop bitterness. This worked really nicely with Pizza. The spicy hoppiness works with this beer throughout, from initial taste, long into the dry finish. Along with the hop bitterness, there is a great wet earth lingering aftertaste. Palate is quite carbonated, was refreshing and cleansing. I am a sucker for this type of beer. Thanks for sending my way, Dan!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2008
at 09:35
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Appealing herbal and floral aroma with little hints of bubblegum floating about, along with a peaky little pie-spice, like cinnamon or allspice. There’s something in this nose that I can almost place but just can’t - a real brain teaser. Yes yes, its the ganja. Herbal, light and wheaty, very refreshing. Somewhat grassy and hoppy toward the finish, mostly dry. Is it vinous? Maybe. Golden amber color, the bottle gushed lightly upon opening and produced a voluminous protein-laden meringue head. A real beauty example of a low alcohol beer being fully flavorful, complex and downright good. I could take this everyday, its a new favorite.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jun 2008
at 19:16
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy orange-yellow beer with ochre shine, huge, fluffy white head leaving lace. Hoppy nose, yeast-spicey, and a slight apple/malonic aroma. Quite hop-bitter, noble EU hops, and a background sweetness, lending a good balance. Light to medium bodied, spritzy. Very well-balanced, refreshing beer.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2008
at 11:59
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
750 ml. bottle/$10.59 at Monument in Concord, CA. Hazy orange tinged gold color with a many fingered head. Aromas of light stone fruits and spice/yeast. Very creamy carbonation with a thin to medium body. Starts a bit funky, but with a nice level of floral hop. Decently bitter. Develops something like a peach tinge - at least some kind of ripe stone fruit. The head laces about, and the flavors develop. The finish is decently dry, decently bitter and very flavorful in an earthy/fruity/hoppy sort of way. In the end is hop. Not NW DIPA, not APA, just really nice hop.This is just excellent stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2007
at 21:31