Running With Scissors
Kompaan in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.81
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Franclh (7477) reviewed Running With Scissors from Kompaan 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Blik 33cl thuis. IBU34,6. Bitters, tonen van surimi en kreeft, licht fruitig, wat citrus, licht droog, licht yeasty. Leuk probeersel. (7-10-2022).
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Running With Scissors from Kompaan 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Ingredients of animal origin, with the exception of lactose perhaps, are still extremely rare in craft beer, in spite of all those years of experimenting – and that is probably for the best, but once in a blue moon one does pop up, demanding full attention. This is one such beer: a saison flavoured with, wait for it, real lobster. The lobster in question was caught in the Oosterschelde and cooked, after which the bisque made from it was added to the beer… Thanks Craftmember for sharing this gimmick. Snow white, medium thick, opening head lacing in shreds over a hazy golden blonde beer straw-ochre hue. Aroma of, indeed clear enough but not unpleasantly so, cooked lobster, lobster bisque and sweet surimi (or even crab salad), matching well with impressions of ripe apricot, bread crust, freshly cut grass, pear, brioche bread, almond, pineapple. Fruity onset, pineapple and pear, some peach, lively fizz but very acceptably so for a saison, smooth brioche-bready malt sweetishness with thin honeyish edge, retronasally returning to that cooked lobster and surimi-like effect, its sweetness strangely blending very well with the natural sweetness of the malts and residual sugars; grassy hop bitterness appears in the end, but the sweetness of the lobster continues unabatedly, embedded in soft breadiness. Crisp, effervescent and fruity as any decent saison, though perhaps lacking a bit in spiciness as such, but the key element here is of course that lobster – which, bizarrely, works rather well and fits into the whole without being overly present (as is often the case in beers trying to showcase one specific and unusual ingredient). That said, I would have preferred the creature to be left alone in its natural environment instead of being cooked (probably alive) for being used in beer, to be honest, but that is an entirely different discussion we probably should not get involved in here.
EvNa (6056) reviewed Running With Scissors from Kompaan 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Color: Lightly hazy golden, white head. Yeasty and harbal notes. Taste: Sweetish, herbal and yeasty notes., caramel and spicy hints. Malty, grainy body. Medium body, average carbonation. Moderate to over moderate sweet. Moderate bitterness. Mwah.