Fergus (31329) reviewed Honey Punch (2023) from Floodland Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Group purchase. A light hazed fluro pink coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is semi sweet, juicy funk. Cherry, raspberry, mellow funk, watermellon. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, tangy, pithy raspberry, cherry, grapefruit,. Palate is semi sweet, tangy, pricky,, highish carbonation. Lovely
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750mL bottle, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma is full of juicy nectarines, oak, some buggy notes, and a touch of gin barrels. Flavour is much more pronounced on the gin barrels, juicy nectarines, buggy notes, and rustic notes. Carbonation is somewhat aggressive, ditto the acidity but tastefully. Nice harmony between the gin barrels and nectarines. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pale and hazy. The aroma is all over the place as far as grapes, stone fruit and gin barrel is concerned. Soft, sweet malts. It's got a soft malt character, beautiful stone fruits. The grape accents are interesting, lending some acidity. The gin is there as well, but seems to clash slightly. High quality, honestly, but the elements don't come together quite as well as in previous editions.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750ml (thx, Josh!) @SF.
Funk and manure mixed with stone fruits, some vanilla. Taste is extremely balanced with amazing stone fruits, manure, some grapes. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy blonde gold with small white head. Juicy nectarine forward, feint gin barrel in the background, there's some feint spelt (which I'm not a big fan of and so brings it down just.a notch for me), but still very nice.
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Sen XXVI from Floodland Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
750 (thx, Josh) @ SF.
Nice funk, bold, rustic notes. Taste is along the same lines, rustic, moderately tart, lemony. Good one.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Sen XXVI from Floodland Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
750mL bottle, pours a hazy bright golden with a small white head. Aroma has lots of spicy, rustic saison yeast, plenty of bugs, some earthiness, and oak. Flavour has plenty of oak, lots of wild yeast, rustic saison yeast, and a touch of earthiness. Rustic, buggy, and oaky. Nice complexity, finishing very buggy, with a somewhat thicker-than-necessary mouthfeel. Very good.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Sen XXVI from Floodland Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Hazy with a light colour. Thin head. The aroma has a nice fruity hop note, some honeyish, floral notes, and hints at sweet malt. On the palate, it's actually fairly tart, especially for a Floodland. Nice floral accents still, minimal bitterness, and the hops show through a bit on the palate. This is not bad, but a shade on the tart side, mostly in terms of balance.
pictoman (9684) reviewed Sen XXVI from Floodland Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy blonde gold with small white head. Saison yeast base (luckily the spelt is super subtle), touch of citrusy tartness, slightly floral, decent.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750mL bottle. Pours murky yellow with white head. Saison yeast, woody funk, floral notes, and peaches on the nose. Flavour has botanicals, peaches, some saison yeast. High carbonation. Very solid.