8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750 ml bottle. Brilliant clear gold, high head. Lemony, lactic, yogurt and light vanilla, straw. Apple and pear. Mildy acidic, tart, apple, honey, lemon. Straw. Very nice. Crisp andlight for 9% silky smooth. Spicy yeast character, a bit of sakura mochi. Nicely dry finish. Hides the alcohol well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2019
at 02:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Lactic acid nose, yogurt, lemon, grapefruit. Quite bubbly. Hazy golden. Zest, lemony, nicely tart though not really sour, lightly bretty. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2019
at 03:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle. Honey malts, esters, pepper, biscuits, peach and orange in the nose. Clear, deep gold with a medium head. Sweet and estery, bready. Rather low in hops and bitterness. Oily body, carbonation is far too low for the style. Otherwise a good rendition of a Belgian single. I would hop it up a bit more, though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2019
at 01:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
750 ml bottle. Nose is grapes, a touch of vinegar, lemon. Nice sweetness, white grapes, carbonation is a bit too low for the style. Nice balance, and an interesting wine-beer hybrid of sorts. Tangy, sillky, smooth, light a nice, lightly acidic white wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2019
at 05:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Light body, light dried apricot, low bitterness very smooth, but fairly boring.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2019
at 12:59
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle by mail order. Nose is bretty funk, lemon and grapefruit, lactic acid, creamy brett, herbal. Slightly hazy, orange-gold, low head. Bretty and dry, yogurt, light grapefruit. A bit too thin and lean, but nice wild flavors coming out. Not sure what solidago tastes like, but there is something vaguely herbal going on. Very dry finish, some bretty funk. I would jack the malt bill up a bit for more body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2019
at 09:25
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Songbird Lavender Dark 5.5% An extreme beer for sure! This smells like potpourri or soap, crazy lavender smell on a dark brown with a tan head beer. The taste is insane levels of lavender, like balls of soap or something. It overpowers the malty caramel base. Well made but an insane recipe that needs to tone down the lavender. My small glass was barely drinkable and we quickly moved on to something else. Get it to tick with like 10 people for a manageable portion.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2019
at 03:41
4.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle. Massive potpourri of lavender with mint and other herbs de Provence. Some chocolate, light spicy yeast. Essential oils of lavender coat and sting the tongue as you feel like a child who just got his mouth washed out with soap. It is soapy and oily and completely undrinkable with HUGE lavender burning through your mind. This is an interesting idea and I love lavender, but as Willis wrote years ago, it is way, way, way overblown. 5% of the present amount of lavender would probably be enough. Then I would try it again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2019
at 23:34
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
330ml bottle from the brewery. Looks yellow, straw, some haze there. Nice sour nose, funky and barnyard feel to it. Belgian sour, very nice. Taste has some funk as well, light tartness, bit of slight bitterness. Soft pallet, a bit sweet. I do like this, one of the best ones from Songbird I have had.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2018
at 17:58
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle (thanks jinroh). Pours golden. Aroma is sour, funky, brett, fruity, apricots, wheaty. Flavor is sour, bitter, cittus, dryness, grapefruit, apricots. Finish is bitter and fruity. Overall: good, but aroma is better than the beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2018
at 17:56