8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 5/1/2015. Pours hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a 1 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, light banana, coriander, clove, pepper, wheat, bread, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/earth yeast, spices, and pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, light banana, coriander, clove, pepper, wheat, bread, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Fair amount of herbal bitterness/yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, light banana, coriander, clove, pepper, wheat, bread, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice robustness and complexity of fruity/earthy yeast, spices, and pale malt flavors; with a great malt/yeast/spice balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, fairly crisp, and lightly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is an excellent witbier. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/earthy yeast, spices, and pale malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. This feels noticeably stronger on spiciness than most I have had in the style, but doesn’t feel out of balance. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2015
at 21:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On draught at the taproom. The beer pours a hazy orange-golden color with a medium bright white head that diminishes gradually to a film. Strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of fruit, yeast and malt. Light to medium body with flavors of herbal yeast, citrus and biscuit malt. The finish is fruity up front with an earthy yeast aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried
from Draft
at
Rockmill Brewery
on 23 Jun 2015
at 13:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours with a mostly clear pale golden hued body with a medium to medium small off-white head that fades. Aromas are of cantaloupe, melon, candied apple esters, earthy cobwebs, some bubblegum, dried apricot. Fruit forward, almost slightly rotten aroma. Mild malt light phenols of black pepper and sage. Flavors show some sharpness, odd higher alcohols, fruity, low acidity, black pepper. Light mustiness. Fuller bodied (without being sweet) with somewhat sharp carbonation. Yeasty to slightly autylosized flavors. Very little hop presence.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2015
at 19:38
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours very dark brown with a beige head. Aroma suggests bourbon and maybe treacle. Med + body. Flavor? I call bourbon and treacle. It’s flirting with brown sugar and stickiness, but never really gets there. Would love to also get this is rum and calvados versions. Tasty stuff. Bourbon is just right.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2015
at 16:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a murky but bright yellow with almost no head. Aroma is all about the barrel. A vinous aspect is there all so. Flavor is again pretty much all of the barrel. Not that there is anything wrong with that but it’s just that it overpowers anything the base beer was going to offer. Finish is silky and none of the alcohol is present at all. It was well done just the wood aging overtook the whole beer. Maybe triples aren’t meant to be barrel aged.
Tried
on 31 Jan 2015
at 08:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Refrigerated 75 cl brown bottle corked and capped, bottled on May 2, 2013, poured into a tulip. Dark copper with huge beige head. Aroma is light dark malt, medium body, well carbonated, with thick small-bubble lacing. Taste is dark malt, yeasty, earthy, caramel, with dryer finish (especially for the style).
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2015
at 20:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
New Beer Distributors, NYC 375ml: Pours orange with a quickly dissipating white head. Aroma is sugar, light fruitiness, and Belgian yeast. Taste is sweet with a dry and bitter finish. It might be a little too sweet for a saison in my book. The hops and the yeast are, however, pretty nice. The yeast is the best part, but I would have liked a different malt profile.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2015
at 19:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
325 c&c from Best Damn Beer Shoppe. Pours very dark brn/blk with a slight dark tan head. Aroma is very nice, but I lack descriptive terms. Sort of dark/fruity doesn’t do it justice. Full bodied or nearly. Flavor is fruit and malt with tobacco notes (or leather). It has a certain spicy tingle that is difficult to find words for. This one is about as mysterious and complex as I can recall. Drinks really nicely!
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2014
at 20:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty earthy flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy yeasty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2014
at 11:44
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy orange pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy weak yeasty caramel aroma. Sweetish malty spicy caramel flavor. Has a fruity spicy yeasty caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2014
at 11:41