7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750 cork and wire. Pours thick dark golden with a nice medium sized frothy head. Cannot see through it but still a beautiful translucence. Aroma is very present - farmhouse hay, nice fresh cut grass, citrusy malt zing. Taste is a bit subdued for the aroma. Losses some of the zing but picks up a nice bitterness. A bit heavy feeling and not as free and thirst quenching a I like my Saisons.. Finishes a bit dry with moderate bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Sep 2006
at 18:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A deep red beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of plums, caramel, and brown sugar - quite complex. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of berries and alcohol, and lesser notes of caramel and molasses, leading to a very sweet end with a slight touch of wood. A very complex flavor, and a powerful body giving a slight alcohol burn.
Tried
on 18 Sep 2006
at 14:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
A deep red beer with a thick fluffy brown head. The aroma is very complex with notes of wood, berries, and some spices on a sweet back ground. The flavor is sweet with notes of berries, and metal in the beginning, acompaniet by notes of herbs towards the end, which is dry. An OK doppelbock - but I’ve had better.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2006
at 16:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
An unclear yellow beer with a huge lazing off-white head. The aroma is sweet and lovely spicy - especially with cloves and coriander, but also with a touch of citrus. The flavor is sweet citrusy and very spicy, coriander being strongest, as well as having a fruity touch of oranges, leading to a dry spicy end. Nice saison.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2006
at 16:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
An orange beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet spicy - with cinnamon being most dominant, but also with notes of fruits, where peaches stands out. The flavor is sweet spicy with both cinnamon, but also a light pebery touch, combined with fruity notes - again lots of peaches.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2006
at 15:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a medium amber color, with foamy, lasting head - quite a malty, bready, very british-cask-ale kind of aroma - quite spicy up front, and medium-dry - nice balance of english and american hops, with the cascades coming through the most (which is just fine with me), and the goldings a close second - slight biscuity presence through the middle, followed by an almost thick sweetness, with the caramel malts becoming quite prominent - sharp hop bitterness throughout keeps the sweetness in check, though - this is a very nice IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Sep 2006
at 20:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Nitro at Spuyten Duyvil - man that nitro pour sure makes a beer look pretty - the overall experience of this beer took me back to the first time I had Guinness, back when I knew nothing about beer - only now, I do know something, and when I say, "hey, that’s a really nice stout; it makes Guinness taste like a handful of dirt," I can say it with some conviction.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2006
at 09:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at Spuyten Duyvil - headless purple/red body, giving the appearance of red wine - juicy, fresh raspberry aroma, without anything artificial about it, as sometimes happens with these raspberry ales - quite thin-bodied for the abv, but the alcohol is also well-masked, making it taste more like a 4% beer than an 8% - quite dry and somewhat tannic - slight wheat malt flavor - this lies somewhere between a sweet fruit beer and a mild lambic - it went well with my cheese plate.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Sep 2006
at 09:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at Spuyten Duyvil - frothy and semi-cloudy out of the hand pump - very full, earthy hop aroma, like a handful of hops just plucked off the plants - very dry, and, again, earthy hop flavor - herbal/spicy qualities mix with a biscuity crispness - quite nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Sep 2006
at 09:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a cloudy golden with a huge and lasting head - nice, zesty, spicy aroma of lemon, orange peel, white pepper and yeasty, slightly barnyardy farmhouse qualities - soft carbonation in the mouthfeel - very spicy, with light, citrusy sweetness - finish of belgian yeast and a hint of candi sugar - a decent american saison.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2006
at 20:35