7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Interesting beer with a correct mix of sourness and dryness, the dry hop is find, citrus and sour, lactose, dry and mineral during all the phases,.10.07.2020, at Epalinges, hot summer, fresh sour.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

bottled. hazy pour with some white head. funky funk and sour mangos. pretty good

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

8, 4, 8, 4, 15, 3.9, Bottle at home. Pours hazy golden, nose is sugary, orange, lemon, spices, taste is juicy lemon, sweet toffee, chewy, light bitterness.,

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

bottle in hotel room Orlando feb 2020... hazy amber... big white head.. soft earthy funk fruit nose. soft sweet herbal fruit.. juicy hop... Light earthy funk

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Tap @ Fermentoren, Aarhus. Pours hazy orange with a medium white head. Aromas of citrus, soap, dill, esters. Taste is citrussy, light tart, soapy, dill, perfume, esters.

5.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

The Aromas are wet paper, old Hops and a little caramel malt. With the flavors, it's similar to nose with some fruitiness and a little traditional farmhouse but the old hops get in the way. Okay body and carbonation but an old hop finish.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Pours hazy mud. Aroma is cucumber, dill, farmhouse, French salad sauce. Body is medium, salad, sweet and softly sour, lively carbonation. Herbal, so much Sorachi...

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

American ‘saison’ made the Belgian way with candi sugar, dry-hopped with Sorachi Ace. Bottle at Uncle Babe’s in Ghent. Creamy and regular, stable, egg-white, membranous-lacing head over hazy peachy golden beer, turning a bit murky and ochre-ish with sediment. Weird, spicy aroma of herb cheese with dill and cheese crackers (clearly the Sorachi Ace gone old), dried grapefruit peel, sage, pineapple, juniper leaf, cucumber, bread crust, dried apricot, some onsetting wet cardboard-like oxidation. Dried apricot and apple peel in the onset, fruity but cleanly so and restrained in sweetness, sharply stinging carbonation, cracker- and bread crust-like maltiness, slick and dryish; a strong, bit resinous, quite unique spicy factor dominates the finish, dried dill from the Sorachi Ace very clear and turned a bit weird to be honest. Grapefruit and mango-like accents as well, next to obvious ‘old hop’ cheesiness and a touch of oxidation. Clearly, and unlike most saisons by definition, this one was not intended for prolonged aging – the Sorachi Ace has done weird things to this beer, which the other taster at the table could not digest; I personally found it interesting and drinkable enough, but of course cheesy old hops can never be the intention. Probably a lot better when young so I’ll grant it the benefit of the doubt, but in this form, disappointing seen Prairie’s reputation, also in saison-inspired beers.

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6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Quite hazy deep copper and bronze coloured body with a light brown glow and a smooth yet tall four centimetre tall just off-white head that fades fairly quickly. Aroma of really funky brett-based yeast with a lot of dry malt notes, some noticeable hops with a dry oaky and cedar-like scent, but the brett, funk, tart notes [from fruit?] and crazy yeast strain really stand out here. Medium-bodied; Strong grassy and dry herbal flavour with some light apricot and peach flavours at first with a touch of lemongrass and ginger as well, but the yeast and dry brett notes show through more than anything else. Aftertaste shows some pungent funk along with a light dry grainy flavour, some subdued tart and fruit flavours with the light hops and some astringency noticeable at the very end. Overall, an interesting beer that goes in the direction of Prairie, which is all about the yeast - so for this one, a very dry strain with some brett and odd tart notes, but the hops make this one even more exciting. Nice, but not worth searching out for and especially for the high prices you might see. I sampled this 50 cL prairie-shaped [tall] bottle purchased from UnWined in Alexandria, Virginia on 24-September-2017 for US$8,99 sampled at home in Washington on 07-July-2018.