6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Courtesy of 77ships. Very thick, towering, rocky, irregularly shaped, pale yellowish beige head over a deep warm copper coloured beer with tiny bits of yeast floating around everywhere. Interesting aroma of vanilla (quite strong after a while but not really tannin-like), toasted bread, honey, cognac and indeed a hint of bourbon, some wood, walnuts, caramel, thyme, dried peach. Dried fruits in the mouth, nutty maltiness all the way through, sweet caramel touch, bit honeyish perhaps, very strong carbonation (too strong for the flavour to entirely open up), toasted accent, spicy finish, drying with quite strong vanilla, woody accent with some bourbon but not strongly so unless it is the vanilla which has to represent it. Weird, certainly not your average saison, overcarbonated, but interesting and enjoyable flavour. The vanilla struck me as being more present than expected - it almost seems added, but I assume it is established by the bourbon presence.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2015
at 08:14