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Idle Hands Craft Ales in Malden, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.05
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Easy drinking farmhouse ale with an American twist. Notes of stone fruit, tropical fruit and bubblegum with a dry, peppery finish.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
4 oz. sample at the brewery. Nice yeast presence and developed properly. Mild spicy pepper, light bubblegum, many a shade of sweet malt. Good mouthfeel. Hops carry over slightly into the flavor. I sampled Patriarch right before and perfer that much more. Still respectable.
Tried
on 07 May 2018
at 11:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Colonial Spirits. Slightly hazy light golden color with a huge bubbly frothy white head that persists. Pepper and light clove with bits of fruit and spice and a hint of sweet bread on the nose. Tropical bready spicy pepper and clove flavor. Nice beer, but seems like the fermentation characteristics of the yeast are a bit overpowering and don’t allow the dry hopping to stand out. More dry hops or slightly cooler fermentation temps might help imho.
Tried
from Can
on 12 May 2017
at 20:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at the brewery
Pours slightly cloudy golden with a small white head, some lacing. Aroma of esters, hay and mild sweetness, fruity. Flavor of tropical fruit, pineapple, peppery with a dry finish
Good saison
Pours slightly cloudy golden with a small white head, some lacing. Aroma of esters, hay and mild sweetness, fruity. Flavor of tropical fruit, pineapple, peppery with a dry finish
Good saison
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Oct 2016
at 17:16
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 7/6/16.
Gentle haze to the pale, straw/hay-golden beer with a medium-sized white head showing moderate retention.
Soft peppery phenols are gracefully drawn against honey and biscuit-like malt notes while easygoing esters mix deftly with the fruitiness from the hops. So well-integrated and not overbearing that I had no idea what hops were in here (other than knowing that it was obviously not a high alpha/citrus bomb American variety). Turns out there is a good deal of mosaic, which is shocking because there’s zero bitterness/pine that you sometimes get from that one and even the tropical fruit/juiciness is kept to a minimum so that you can get at the lovely, lightly grainy, rustic malt character and authentic yeast characteristics. No alcohol or flaw with some pepper, nectarine and hay lingering.
Tight carbonation and a high attenuation create a crisp, drinkable saison with plentiful, yet mild fruitiness ranging from light melon and nectarine to touches of mango and apple. Good phenolics, not overdone, with light honey, biscuit and other grain notes. Really nicely balanced and showing none of the many defects of current American "saison" brewing.
Gentle haze to the pale, straw/hay-golden beer with a medium-sized white head showing moderate retention.
Soft peppery phenols are gracefully drawn against honey and biscuit-like malt notes while easygoing esters mix deftly with the fruitiness from the hops. So well-integrated and not overbearing that I had no idea what hops were in here (other than knowing that it was obviously not a high alpha/citrus bomb American variety). Turns out there is a good deal of mosaic, which is shocking because there’s zero bitterness/pine that you sometimes get from that one and even the tropical fruit/juiciness is kept to a minimum so that you can get at the lovely, lightly grainy, rustic malt character and authentic yeast characteristics. No alcohol or flaw with some pepper, nectarine and hay lingering.
Tight carbonation and a high attenuation create a crisp, drinkable saison with plentiful, yet mild fruitiness ranging from light melon and nectarine to touches of mango and apple. Good phenolics, not overdone, with light honey, biscuit and other grain notes. Really nicely balanced and showing none of the many defects of current American "saison" brewing.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jul 2016
at 15:30