Valour (originally Valor)
Tooth and Nail Brewing Company in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.88
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True farmhouse ales are dry, spicy, fruity, and hoppy. They are also hard to come by. We brew our version of this classic ale with barley, wheat, oats, and rye to emulate the flavours found in some of the classics, then hop it with old world hops for a sense of rusticity. Complex and refreshing.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
355ml Can.
Bright, grassy, herbal, slighty spicy, hints of funky brett notes.
Mouth feel is lively, carb is the same. Low to medium bitterness, lemon zest, citrus juice, wet grass, and minerals.
Bright, grassy, herbal, slighty spicy, hints of funky brett notes.
Mouth feel is lively, carb is the same. Low to medium bitterness, lemon zest, citrus juice, wet grass, and minerals.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cloudy, golden color and a nice white head. Yeasty, malty, earthy hops. Decent Herbst and Spikes. Dry.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2023
at 07:43
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the source. Cloudy golden yellow color, massive white head with good retention. Aroma of big bready lightly peppery funk. Taste is peppery lemon and light stonefruit, light to moderate funk, light bitterness. Very flavorful
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jun 2023
at 02:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
355ml can that pours a very slight unfiltered with tiny transparent particles through it. Light golden colour with a big frothy white cap, good retention, leaving some thick foamy lacing. Citrus nose at first with a little banana-wheat action and mild peppery hops. The taste shows a little of the same with the sweetness being a little much, with the hops being fairly mild, not helping as much this richness. Gets hazier at the last pour. Definitely a classic Saison, a tad too sweet for my likings.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2021
at 00:46
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2018
at 20:56
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Tasting at Matt’s, can
Cloudy blond color. Pungent spicy aroma, some flowers, some vegetables. Dry mouthfeel, dry spicy yeast character, leading to some astringency in the final and vegetable bitterness.
Unbalanced, messy, not exciting.
Cloudy blond color. Pungent spicy aroma, some flowers, some vegetables. Dry mouthfeel, dry spicy yeast character, leading to some astringency in the final and vegetable bitterness.
Unbalanced, messy, not exciting.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Aug 2017
at 18:05
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Hazy and pale. No thin. Really yeasty on the nose. Light estery, hint of bubblegum, fairly yeasty. So on the palate, not all that great.
Tried
on 04 May 2017
at 23:21
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
355mL can, pours a cloudy golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out floral notes, saison yeast, and some fruity esters. Flavour brings out saison yeast, light fruity esters and cereal notes. Actually fairly authentic for a North American saison. Not overly complex, but it's quite nicely constructed. Decent stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 04 May 2017
at 22:21
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
A slightly cloudy gold with a wheat sweet and spicy aroma. Light bodied and dry. The taste gives you chewey oats, spicy rye and sweet wheat. Kind of on the simple side flavor wise but alright. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
on 21 Aug 2016
at 13:33
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A hazed golden blonde saison with a thick frothy lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light grassy hops, light cloves, banana esters, light mineral notes, pleasant. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with loads of cloves, banana esters, light talcum, flowers, very nice. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Aug 2016
at 13:52