8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at the Brewpub. Black colour with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, alcohol, alcohol, licorice, coffee. Flavour is coffee, licorice,hop, alcohol, sugar, roasted malt, chocolate. Full body. Very nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2013
at 20:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewpub. Golden -orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is orange, yeast, hop. Flavour is sweet, orange, yeast, hop, rye, caramel, citrus. Easy drinkable beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2013
at 20:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at the brewpub. black colour with a tan head. Aroma is cocoa, chili, malt. Flavour is cocoa, chili, malt, hop, sugar . Long chili finish. Fun beer to have tasted.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Dec 2013
at 00:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewpub. Golden-orange colour with an off- white head. Aroma is hop, peaches, citrus, pine. Flavour is hop, peaches, citrus, pine, caramel. Pleasent bitter finish. Easy drinkable beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Dec 2013
at 00:47
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Medium white head. Hazy yellow body. Strong catty tropical fruit aroma with mealy herbal notes. Bitter catty grapefruit taste, fairly astringent, with mealy sugary notes. Mid-bodied. Sharpish, mealy mouthfeel. Bitter oily sugary grapefruit aftertaste with mealy tropical fruit notes. A bit harsh and bitter, but not bad. Graham likes it. (0.3l draft at Cafe Sara.)
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2013
at 23:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Cloudy orange to brown colour, large off-white head. Strong aroma of fruity and piney American (and/or possibly Aussie/NZ?) hops. Distinctly hoppy flavour throughout, fruity first, piney and resinous in the middle, very bitter and sharp finish and aftertaste, nearly chinine-like. The malty base is not too sweet. Calls for the "bitter beer face", this one.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2013
at 05:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Draught, as Torggata IPA, from the six-pack menu at Café Sara. Lasting white layer blanketing the glass. Cloudy dark golden body. Citrus hops on the nose linked with malty sweetness. Similar taste of citrus fruity flavours on a backbone of sweet malts. Bittersweet ending. Soft mouthfeel. A very sweet version of the style, so and so (Oslo 10.12.2013).
Tried
on 18 Dec 2013
at 13:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap at Café Sara, as Sara Brown, half pint glass. Filmy layer at the surface of a slightly hazy, dark ruby body. Plain dark malty nose, mid-sweet with a little roasted touch. Roasted brown and black malty flavours balanced by dark fruity endnotes, bittersweet. Soft in the mouth. Fair version of the style and good partner to my kebab food (Oslo 10.12.2013).
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Dec 2013
at 13:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap @ the brewpub. Cloudy orange body with a decent off-white head. Aroma has lots of fruit, particular oranges and some caramel malt with a feeling of rustic farmhouse yeast. Flavor is very refreshing citric fruity, especially oranges, some caramel malt, quite spicy and again an interesting feeling of rustic farmhouse elements. Good and well integrated bitterness. Fine body and good, long fruity aftertaste. This Saison is almost unbelievable fruity, almost like there is a bitter orange juice here. The yeast influence is strong, but I find it quite spicy and rustic. A bit odd, but definitively very moorish for my personal reference. Another splendid Saison from the brewpub.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Dec 2013
at 10:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at the brewpub. A hazy one, golden-orange in color and with a finger thick off-white head. Some curtains. The aroma and flavor has a bit too much influence from the yeast, a kind of yeast I wouldn’t recommend using in future brews. It’s citrusy fruity, clementine peel and some canned peaches in the aroma, some peppery notes in the back. It’s dry and pleasantly carbonated, medium to full bodied. There’s a pleasant bitterness going on all the way, keeping the fruity flavors company. Lasting finish. Well, except for the yeast it’s a fine one, hope they choose another culture for their next saison. Rating: 6-4-6-4-13-3.3. 131214
Update: Having another glass a week later, the yeast aroma and flavor has been reduced to noticable, and the beer is a whole lot better. Have therefore lifted my score. 131221
Update: Having another glass a week later, the yeast aroma and flavor has been reduced to noticable, and the beer is a whole lot better. Have therefore lifted my score. 131221
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Dec 2013
at 08:40