Fonefan 300814. Golden-orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is brett, malt, yeast, fruit. Flavour is dry, brett, melon, malt, yeast, berries, spices. Nice beer.

Bottle bought @ Olbutikken. Pours hazy brownish golden with a huge creamy goldenish offwhite head that slowly dissipates while leaving some sparse trace on the glass. Smell is rather rustic, funky and phenolic with crackers, cereal, hay, dry soil, barnyard, watermelon rinds, white pepper corns, orange zest and lemon zest. Taste is tiny sweet, bitter, funky and phenolic with crackers, cereal, honeydew melon, hay, dry soil, white pepper corns, barnyard, sheet metal and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is dry, astringent, slightly champagne-like, tiny boozy and medium bodied. Finish is bitter, funky and phenolic with cereal, hay, dry soil, white pepper corns, sheet metal, barnyard, watermelon rinds, grapefruit rinds and lemon zest. Ok but too boozy and too heavy on the phenols which especially shows as the beer warms. --- Beer merged from original tick of All Funked Up - Fruitis The Farmer Beescake on 28 Jan 2015 at 21:01 - Score: 7. Original review text: Phenolic metallic and quite boozy. Not at all what I want from my saison but it works. It's no drain pour...

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Bottle. Light hazy golden liquid with medium white head. Aroma of white pepper, overripe fruit, banana, dirty funk, earth, bubblegum and grain. Taste is dry and light to medium sour with notes of red berries, banana, light booze, funk and white pepper. Light to medium bodied with medium carbonation. Pretty nice but unnecessarily strong.

Wine-barrel aged fruit and honey saison from Kentucky, curious to find out what this is about. Upon opening the bottle, I was confronted with one of the most dramatic forms of gushing I’ve ever seen: a fountain of beer rushed out of the bottle, resulting in a considerable loss of volume, like a champagne bottle that had been shaken for minutes on end. When I finally managed to capture it, it poured a completely cloudy peach blonde with brownish bits of dead yeast in the bottom of the glass... Medium thick, lacing, off-white head. Aroma pleasantly sourish and very estery as in the most authentic of Belgian saisons, complex, with impressions of fresh orange peel, lemon zest, cantaloupe (apparently effectively added), gooseberries, strawberries, dry white wine, wet hay, vanilla, tulips, roses, chamomille, iron, honey, pineapple, wormwood, lavender soap, cake, old cheese, freshly baked bread, basil, leather, sweat, damp cellar and off-putting, but fortunately very subtle medicinal-chemical odours. Very fruity and estery onset with spritzy carbonation - not surprising considering the extreme gushing; pineapple, peach, lemony sourness, then a subtle melon-like sweetness, honey clearly coming through, bready malt sweetness, very yeasty and powdery as in many artisanal Belgians, lactic sourness all the way through with a drying effect, some tannins in the finish along with leafy hop bitterness, a hint of gin-like warming alcohol and lingering fruity yeastiness. Not sure what to think of this: enjoyable alright, at least if you are used to artisanal, yeasty, spicy Wallonian ales, but the gushing really put me off. Something went technically wrong here, that much is clear; my guess is that it has been infected with Lactobacillus. However, I still liked it in some kind of way - my funky Belgian side speaking, I guess. But the aroma was more appealing to me than the actual taste. In all: a very ’Belgian’ experience, considering the amounts of artisanal Belgian beers I’ve had with similar, mild and more or less tolerable Lactobacillus and Pediococcus infections... I think this one is just too much: Brett, and barrel aging, and adding melon, and adding honey... Complexity and balance are two different things which ideally match and complement each other, but I’m not sure if that goal has been achieved here. Nevertheless, this could have worked a lot better without the infection. Too bad.

Hazy golden color with a fine white head. Ok lacing. A bit fruity, apples and yeast. Nice body. Ok bitterness, pleasant acidic and tad sweet. Average to rich carbonation. Pleasant fruity, yeast and some spices. Lovely refreshing beer
[ Bottle from a trade with Meilby]

US State #41

Bottle 750ml. @ The Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2014, TSODRBSG14. [ As Against the Grain Fruitis The Farmer Beescake ].Clear medium to light dark orange yellow color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, parsley. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, grape - wine, citrus, tart, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20140830]

20th September 2014
Tasting at Paul and Lorna’s flat. Deepest Croydonia. Hazy deep gold beer. Airy palate with light fine carbonation. Airy malts, slightly sweet. Light floral sweetness. Melon and lesser tropical fruits. Very mild pepper, well buried. Light airy finish. Nice fruits.

Bottle at the pre-Zwanze tasting in Croydonia, thanks to Kenny, 20/09/14. Hazed orange with a moderate off white covering that dissipates to a swirl. Nose is peachy, mango, acidic tones, citric rind, brett rones, funk, tangerine. Taste comprises tangerine, spice, mandarin, tangy citrics, puff of smoke, brett, peach, light wood rinse. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent soured saison with a nice brett tickle but it didn’t really pull out of 2nd gear to make it a great for me.