Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. An unclear dark golden beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of pepper, lemons, yeast, and a bit of brettanomyces. The flavor is sweet with notes of pepper, yeast, malt, lemons, and spices, leading to a dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
cloudy yellow, small white head. flowery caramelly aroma, no hops. perhaps faint fruity notes from the wine flavor is wood , yeast from wine, belgian yeast
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of bu11zeye. Pours a hazy golden with a white head. Tart, fruity berryish nose. Medium body, sweet berry fruitiness and some tart funk. Those berries are extremely delicious. Tart and dry finish. 230312
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled, thanks Craig. Cloudy golden, lively head. Fruity lactic nose. Mid sweet with above medium body and fairly soft mouthfeel. Lactic with an underlying sweetness. Slight notes of butter and red wine. Low bitterness. Quite peppery with some honey.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle (#4840) from 12.29.2011 thanks to my girlfriend. Also noticed on the bottle (Batch 354, 012012). Pours with a very murky yellow hue with a slight orange tint. Huge and fluffy, retentive and strong lace bearing, tight nit head. Looks pretty spot on. Aromas are yeasty, phenolic, esters and spice. Mild ginger burn, grainy, bready, rustic. Mild wheat, pepper, very spicy, citrus peel/oils, orange, zesty. Lightly grassy. Vibrant. Flavors are bready, yeasty, malty, a bit sweet. Some phenols up front, but lots of wheat towards the finish with mild citrus. Any orange flavors are definitely complementary and in the background. Medium phenols, spice and ginger heat towards the front. A bit of a suntan lotion character. Basic and easy drinking. Mildly waxy towards the end. Zesty. Lively bubbles, medium dry finish (somewhat oddly malty sweet through the mid palate). Pretty solid.
bb (18428) reviewed Winter 2012 Winter Wit from Almanac Beer Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Pale yellow beer with a whitish head. Ginger and wheat aroma with spice. Wheat and spice flavor with light ginger. Medium bodied. Easy drinking. Wheat and spice lingers with light fruit and light ginger.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 4396 from 9/28/2011 thanks to my girlfriend. Pours with a hazy golden hued body with a large, just barely off-white head. Good lace and retention. Aromas are grassy and herbal with immediate dry hop character. Biscuity, bready and lightly caramel malt character. Yeast character is a touch funky, banana esters. Mild grape tannin and over ripe plum. Juicy and bright citrus zest. Flavors show a bit of a husky, tannic, astringent malt character (tannic extraction). A bit sharp, bright citrus, tannin, plum, bubble gum and banana esters. Medium to light bitterness. Grassy. Medium phenols. Not much plum character to be honest. Lively bubbles, dry, tannic in the finish. Light bodied. The least flawed beer that I have yet to see come out of the Hermitage operation.
Like the last Almanac beer, the fruit flavors are integrated into the background. Sadly, this beer isn’t as good (at least for me) as the Summer 2011 release.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from the Arden BevMo in Sacramento, CA. Pours hazy orange gold with a 3 finger foamy off-white head. Aromas of belgian yeast spice and non-light fruit. Head is in the way. Med plus body. Frothy carb. The flavor is quite strong in terms of fruit - suggesting plums that are not fully ripe. Or maybe that’s plum skin. Though with time the unripeness seems to mellow, allowing some wheat aspects to come out. Then there’s something like lightly sucking on a plum pit. So it’s really quite dry, and seems more bitter than 29 IBU. And the yeast is ever present. Finally there’s a rising earthiness. Probably there all the time, but took me a while to get it? A really good saison.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sour and tart aromas with blackberry somewhat restrained. Hazy brushed gold with full concentrated white head. Blackberry and sour, mouthfeel is medium with puckering. Tangy and tart on the late palate. Fruit also comes in again very late.
bb (18428) reviewed Autumn 2011 Farmhouse Pale from Almanac Beer Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Amber beer with a whitish head. Malt and spice aroma. Spice and malt flavor with earth, light esters, and light plastic. Medium bodied. Spice and fruity esters linger with malt and light plastic.