7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Capped 750 from Wine & Cheese in Clayton, MO. Pours dishwater gold with very little head. Aroma is rather citrus sour. Earthy hint. Med + body. Flavor is earthy, lightly sour and citrus. Then it suddenly goes sweat sox. Sucks the moisture from the mouth. Barnyard finish. Marvelous.
Tried
on 14 Nov 2012
at 18:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma of oranges, some light Belgian yeast, and light coriander. Flavour of coriander, banana and orange upfront, with a mild yeasty character. Nicely spicy and juicy saison. Solid stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2012
at 20:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Capped 750 from Wine & Cheese in Clayton, MO. Pours hazy dark gold with a slight foamy off-white head. Aroma is a strange earthiness mixed with citrus. Med body. It’s earthy, and citrus, but it has a rather strong dose of phenolics. I don’t think this is infection - not a nasty sour thing - but rather unusual. Maybe it’s the rye reacting with the yeast.
Tried
on 02 Nov 2012
at 17:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Smells a little musky and yeasty. Aroma has lots of fruitniness, herbes-hard to say what exactly but it makes for a great drink. There’s a decent amount of citrus taste here as well. Good lacing, pours golden clear. Taste has a little sourness and some sweetness and leaves off very nice, very balanced. Another great saison from Hopfenstark.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2012
at 13:36
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught at Volo, Toronto
Golden color, low carbonation, no head. Aroma of rubber and light spicy yeast. Good body strength; a bit fruity flavor, above the average bitterness.
Golden color, low carbonation, no head. Aroma of rubber and light spicy yeast. Good body strength; a bit fruity flavor, above the average bitterness.
Tried
on 29 Oct 2012
at 07:12
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Vice-Versa in Montreal. Aroma: Standard black chocolate and coffee. We can feel the bitterness of the coffee. Aroma sticking out pretty good. Appearance: Average brown head covering a standard opaque black color. Head is leaving a very nice lacing and is sticking generously to glass. Taste: We can feel the roasted coffee and black chocolate bitterness all over. Body is light and texture watery. Again, an OK porter, but I found it too light for my expectation. We are kind of away from LTM Porter Baltique.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Oct 2012
at 07:27
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Vice-Versa in Montreal. Aroma: Citrus with orange zest and a touch of cereal. Nose could stick out more. Appearance: Traditional gold blond with small head sticking to glass with nice lacing. Taste: Attack with spicy notes with citrus and orange coming back. Texture is between light and average. This beer is OK but under my expectations for this reputed brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Oct 2012
at 07:10
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 oz. bottle, pours a cloudy blonde with a humungous frothy white head with good lacing. Aroma is very wheaty, with loads of freshly baked bread, some dough, cereal, and hay - very fresh nose. Flavour is fruity, something the nose didn't give off, with notes of banana, lemon and green apples, which is then overtaken by the prominent notes of hay, freshly baked bread and loads of cereal malt. Rather flavourful for being a 5% blond, a style that is usually bland and generic. Dry and soft mouthfeel, with a wonderful amount of fruitiness that makes this very refreshing. Most excellent thirst quencher with lots of depth and complexity. Surprisingly awesome.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2012
at 21:32
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy golden orange with a small beige head. Aroma of coriander, wheat, orange peel and some mild barnyard. Flavour is very wheaty and light orangey, with mild rustic qualities and coriander. Easily drinkable, lightly spicy and wheaty. Very good saison.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2012
at 16:19
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle (brand new bottle to our market, date code seems to indicated 01/12). Pours with a lightly hazed, very pale, straw yellow hued body with a large and lasting white head. Aromas are quite estery with some acetaldehyde and straw. Lots of apple, baked bread, pear, grassy hop. Bready and toasty malt. Cidery. Flavors are malty and bready, medium sulfur and cleaner than the nose. Medium assertive bitterness with a lightly grassy hop character. Toasted and bready malt flavors compete. Carbonation is high ( what seems like above 2.8 volumes of CO2). Medium estery, lightly cidery, some alcohol. I was looking forward to this, but I am pretty disappointed. Medium-thin body. Dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2012
at 22:21