Valley Buckwheat Saison
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.30
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught at Deep Ellum, Summer 2013
Somewhat cloudier-than-it-should be pour shows a marmalade colored body with an initially large white head that shows moderate to low retention.
Pleasant, light esters reveal banana and clove with a honey note from the malt. Sweet before the peppery phenols pick up, beginning to dry and balance the nose. But the excess sediment in solution dulls it somewhat and gives it a premature finish, with the aroma not really lingering or terribly high in strenghth. No flaws or alcohol noted, otherwise, which is very promising.
Lightly sweet malts give the lightest of pale sugar impressions while the fruity yeast and citrusy-tropical hoppiness washes over the palate. Good, true flavor, just muddled with some sediment-in-solution-dullness. Carbonation is low to moderate and could actually use a boost to really display the otherwise lighter hop aroma. And the cloudiness has to go, but those aren’t major concerns and I assume they will work that out.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours light gold into a snifter. Bright white head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Sourdough and hay aromas. Soft with sourdough and marshmallow upfront turning to bready sour overripe fruit in the medium length finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
On tap at the brewery. Pours a hazy gold with some sticky white head. Nose has a ton of buckwheat, bready, grainy, almost a little cooked quinoa. Flavor is the same, very odd, loads of buckwheat flour, almost a raw flour flavor, gristy, a little honey. Gristy, flour finish. Very strange.