7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy purplish hue. Light berry nose, fresh plummy taste. Boysenberry? Nice, not sure I would have called that.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2022
at 04:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle sample at Farmhouse Fest 2022, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma is loaded with intense peated whiskey, with little else — maybe subdued rustic saison yeast. Flavour is loaded with peated whiskey, rustic saison yeast, and some woody oak. Love that peated whiskey character and it blends well with the saison character. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2022
at 03:35
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle sample at Farmhouse Fest 2022, pours a cloudy dark red with a small off-white head. Aroma is loaded with rich tart raspberries, lots of jamminess, and a touch of bugs. Flavour is full of tart raspberries, dry earthiness and light oak. Flavour is full of tart raspberries, gentle jamminess, lots of bugs, and oak. Wonderful fruity character. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2022
at 03:35
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle sample at Farmhouse Fest 2022, pours a cloudy yellow blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of rustic saison yeast, some tangy notes, and light oak. Flavour is bone dry, with lots of rustic saison yeast, a touch of tanginess, and oak. Bone dry and rustic with great depth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2022
at 03:34
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Farmhouse Fest 2022, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out gently subtle tea, with rustic saison yeast and a touch of oak. Flavour is full of oak, tons of tea, and a little rustic saison yeast. Oaky, herbal, and rustic. It's alright.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2022
at 03:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle sample at Farmhouse Fest 2022, pours a deep dark reddish with a small white head. Aroma is loaded with jammy, tart boysenberries that dominate… mmm. Flavour is loaded with pithy, jammy boysenberries, gentle tartness, and a little bugs. The nose is much better than the flavour. A little underwhelming and lacking complexity. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2022
at 03:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle sample at Farmhouse Fest 2022, pours a cloudy bright yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out tart citrus fruit, bugs, and a little oak — don't really get the kiwis. Flavour is full of tart citrus fruit… I guess kiwi… along with oak and rustic notes. Not the most complex Fair Isle but it's nicely constructed. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2022
at 03:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
7-8-23 HCB Prev 3.7 8-1-22 HCB
Tried
on 02 Aug 2022
at 02:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml. bottle. @Quintela, Láncara. 24/07/2022 [#5.262 Global - #788 United States of America - #1 Fair Isle Brewing (My Brewery #228 from the States)] Pours burgundy with a pinkish head. Good retention. Aroma: tart, berries, light funk and barnyard. Taste: barrels, berries and funk. Tart dry mouthfeel. Balanced. Next one please!
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2022
at 13:57
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
American ‘bière de garde’ brewed with chanterelle (or girolle) mushrooms – a delicacy from the forests, but how such an ingredient can ever work in beer… Shared by Craftmember at Sambre’s saison fest 2022. Snow white, moussy, stable, shred-lacing head, clear orange blonde robe. Aroma of indeed fried forest mushrooms with brown sugar sprinkled on them (the way my father use to stir fry them), plum peel, green gooseberry, pizza or oregano (!), dried prosciutto, green peppercorns from a jar, some background sulfuric aspect probably related to the chanterelles. Crisp, fruity onset, green gooseberry and some unripe prune, medium carb, supple dry-bready and cereally core under drying, yoghurty lactic sourness, lingering acidic green fruitiness and then this retronasal mushroom effect, again adding something ‘meaty’, but in a far less outspoken way than orthonasally; the added peppercorns, however, do add a pleasantly lingering ‘warm’ spiciness. Ends elegantly tart, vinous, juicy and a tad tannic like any good sour ale, but the mushrooms are mostly here for the show, as they do add unusual aromas, but very little actual flavour. Fascinating one nonetheless – and only my third or fourth mushroom beer to date, I think.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2022
at 16:38