Saison Hallertau
Mills Brewing in Ham, Gloucestershire, England 🏴
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.97
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Saison Hallertau is a blend of four barrels from three worts brewed in January, March, and August 2019. It was dry-hopped with whole leaf Hallertau Blanc, Mandarina Bavaria, and Fuggles.The beer is a bitter, amber saison with a good balance of malt, yeast, and hop flavour. A small quantity was released relatively fresh last year through Favourite Beers, as a tribute to Nicky Norwood, wife of owner Leigh. The further ageing since has allowed time for the wild yeast to significantly modify the hop aromatics and add further depths of funk.
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8.6/10
LCI. Lemony nose, light vinous funk. Classic Mills, touch of farmyard. Woody
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2025
at 22:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy amber with a medium white head. Aroma brings out rustic saison yeast, earthy notes, light spiciness, and bready malt. Flavour has a nice yeast profile, with plenty of earthiness, bready malt, and some spiciness. I could do with less of the bready/malty character, but I like the spicy saison yeast character. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2024
at 06:10
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Beigey sort of pale. There's a fair bit of brett on the nose, with a bit of gooseberry and orange. Off-dry, orangey, light pear, with a hint of pale malt biscuity base. I'm digging the hop character, and the wildness. This is excellent.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2024
at 06:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL bottle. Pours golden with large foamy white head. Aroma very funky with some hay and citrus rind. Flavour has a lot of barnyard funk and malts; citrus, grass, and rotten wood. Fantastic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2024
at 06:06
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
Small white head over faintly veiled orange beer. Brettanomyces and other wild yeasts, smells like a - faintly spicy - gueuze! Citrussy, mild lemony gueuze-like, can't put it more distinctly. Wild yeast, farmyard whiffs and again faint rootspices. Light, mild acidthinning, low to medium carbonation. Aftertaste has a very light boozy, alcoholic waft. Tasted blind, I would have guessed a - pretty good - faintly spiced-up gueuze. From the UK! Only thing missing in the experience - the Hallertau!
Tried
from Bottle
at
Café Pardaf
on 06 Nov 2021
at 08:05
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750ml bottle at home. Pours opaque orange with a frothy off-white head. Aroma: funky, bitter orange, gooseberry, oak, hay. Taste: crisp, zingy, dry, tart, tannic apple, lemon, sherbet, musty, funky, hay, some minerality. Medium body with foamy carbonation. Moreish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2021
at 06:56
8/10
Woody and fruity nose. Fruity, sour, tart, pretty hoppy. Lemon verbana, white currants, dry wood, some baked stone fruit. Funk is there, the wet sock kind rather than basement. Some acidity but remains smooth. Finally got to try one of these, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2021
at 21:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle as Mills Nicky, about a year old now. Hazy orange, big loose white head. Aroma is funky, hay, citrus. Taste is quite funky, hay, sharp citrus hints, lemon, light stone fruits. Medium bodied, spritzy carbonation. Generally not a fan of the style but this is solid.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Favourite Beers
on 17 Jul 2021
at 16:56
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle split at the 'fuck me it's Kenny; tasting, thanks to Dave - Watford, 25/06/21. As Mills Nicky. Hazed orange with a decent white cap. Nose is tarte fruit rinds, funk blanket, grassy, green berry must, damp wood. Taste comprises stoned fruit esters, damp wood, hay bale, light funk, green berry must, lemon rind, straw. Medium bodied, fine massaging carbonation, semi drying close with a tarte fruit climax. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2021
at 11:22
8/10
Hapu, humalane, kuiv, puuviljane, nats alksi, tanniinine, mingi kärakas ka. Hea.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2021
at 19:44