Bottled (BB 01/2007)
Honey golden color, small white head. Estery fruity aroma with banana and light sour notes. Fruity (grape, tangerine), earthy, notes of mould. Quite full palate, sweetness in the aftertaste. Yes, it is a saison.

On tap at Hop Vine Pub, Seattle. Copper colour with thin beige head. Belgian yeast aroma. Nutty. In fact it’s really nutty. Peanut. I mean it’s peanut. Not unpleasant but doesn’t go anywhere, bit over carbonated.

Bottle; Nose of yeast and spices (cloves mostly); gold with a small white head; flavor of a little caramel malt, with some banana and a little residual tartness.

Bottle, perhaps a little too cold. Small white fast disappearing head. Gold colour, somewhat lile fall pumpkin. Fruity small aroma. Malty flavour, a little spicy but not like a great saison. Spicy finish. Good value for money. A good workaday boerhuis bier.

Bottle: nice blend of flavors in this golden yellow brew, spices, clove, lemon, yeast notes, a little bready, and some fruitiness. Complex, yet simple to enjoy.

Pour is a bright golden with a small white head. Aroma is cloves and spice with some yeastyness in there. Flavor is sweet with notes of banana and cloves. Pretty darn god for a saison made right in here the usa.

Bottle pours a light slightly hazy orange bronze with a thin quick off white head. Aroma of soft spices and floral hops. Flavor was quite bland, subdued and thin. I expected a much more bold spice flavor profile. It seems to me that NB is trying top introduce a "Saison" for the masses and trying to hard not to alienate it’s regualr customers with something to wierd. Tons of the stuff showed up at the local co-op the other day so it appears to be "un"-retired. Maybe it still should be.

Orange-gold, clear; small whitish head. Very flowery nose, with aromas of special grains, coriander-like with a streak of caramel. Human sweat, coriander, phenolic, bit Brett-like, citruspeel, very "farmyard", anyway. Slightly burning MF, ending a bit watery. Not exactly uplifting beer. Search again.

Draught at GABF and Falling Rock, GABF 2005 weekend. Pours a brassy, lightly chill-hazed copper-gold, with none of the samples having a well-retained head. Some wispy spots of lace remain on the edges, but nothing spectacular for appearance, by any means. Aroma is severely dry, grainy and filled with bitter, borderline astringent herbs and spices. The lavendar, while nice, is about the only pleasant thing going on here. The Belgian yeast is soft, moderately fruity (lemons, oranges, pears). Fairly mysterious aroma does not allow much of a glimpse of what is to come, other than to foretell much dryness! And dry in flavor it is. Biscuity, husky, grainy malts and a moderate carbonation, with lemons and old toast. Wheat keeps the body very dry, and the mouthfeel smooth and uninspired. As it warms, I think it would be incorrect to say that it gets sweet. It gets sort of oily-tart, with a bittersweet sort of thing going on. Almost like oxidation, though without the sherry notes. Another challenging beer to describe. Mouthfeel is lively, with the wheat adding some pleasant aspects, but the carbonation is not tight, nor is the beer substantial. Seems too filtered even on draught. Strange.

Draft. Rich amber color with a nice whitish head. Fruity (orange)spicey, funky aroma. Fruity flavor with malt and some spice. Nice balance and well put together. Bottle scored much lower.