Bierridder (4318) reviewed Cassandra from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
15/10/2016 - draft sample @ Bles Bierhappening. Black colour with creamy darktanned head. Nose is roasted malts and coffee, some licorice. Taste starts a bit creamy, sweet, than dry roasted malts, some coffee and chocolate. Third beer from this brewery and again a good one.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Damme Nation from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
15/10/2016 - draft sample @ Bles Bierhappening Amber colour with creamy head. Nose us bitter and fruity. Taste is fruity, bitterness, bit grassy.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Blinker from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
15/10/2016 draft sample @ Bles Bierhappening Hazy yellow with big white head. Nose is wort, some spices. Taste is very refreshing : grains, citrus, some spices, bitterness. Nice
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Blinker from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
F: big, white, good retention. C: pale yellow, hazy. A: malt, grassy, floral, straw, hint of basement. T: malt, quite earthy bitter on the palate, dusty, cellar tones, grassy, medium body, good carbonation, good balanced for this style, sample @ Zottegem Beerfestival 2016.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Blinker from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the brewers. Hazy colour, white foam. Very bitter and dry, grassy saison. Bitter lemon peel, dry finish.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Cassandra from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from the brewers. Dark brown/black colour, dark brown foam. Roasty, coffee, pure cocoa. Roasty but very well balanced. Light sweetness but mostly dry and roasty. Very nice!
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Damme Nation from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from the brewers. Dark amber colour, beige foam. Nose of citrus peel, tropical fruit. Bitter and harsh taste. Grassy and dry. Nice dry IPA.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Cassandra from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Very good darker mossy-cream head, stable, over jet-black beer with textbook lace. Roasted, liquorice. I do detect mineral, but it remains pretty hidden, latent. In the background there’s another aroma, not unlike other grains or buckwheat, difficult to define; benzene. Liquorice, very roasted, again just a hint @ mineral. Lots of restsugars, no real stoutacidity. Medium bodied at least, again slick (~the other grainsaroma). Good stout, but nothing more. Br Retasted 17/02/2019 bottled Main difference being a much more obvious presence of the oyster shells, especially in the nose which can be qualified as salty. More balance in the flavour, but with again the salinity obvious. +1 point.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Damme Nation from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught Huge, dense, creamy, cream-coloured head, utterly stable and leaving textbook lace, over fully hazy foxy amber beer. Through the big head, fresh fruity New World hops filter out. Very fruity, citrussy and piney hops, lots of resin; yeast. Feels pretty well-bodied, yeast-filling. Wry-ish aftertaste, long resiny aftermath. Another hit. Again, very fresh (the bottles might turn out differently), but likeable in all aspects.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Blinker from Siphon Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Very good, whipped eggwhite-like head over fully cloudy yellow beer with an orange sheen. Fresh yeast, green herbs, pale malts. Very fresh-smelling. Bitterish, spicy. Again yeast but in the good way, no byproducts. A little bit of restsugars in the background, lemonpeel. Gristslick, obviously. Quite refreshing, medium carbonation. Excellent light beer, and for once, the moniker "Saison" is not usurped.