6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours redish brown with a pillowy head. Nice hoppy beer, fruity for UK varieties, nice caramell malt base.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2011
at 13:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Blackish beerwith a dark cream colored head. Dried fruit and yeast aroma with caramel and plum. Caramel/toffee and earth flavor with yeast, dates, and dried fruit. Medium-plus bodied. Caramel/toffee and light dried fruit lingers with yeast and earthiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2011
at 11:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Tap @ the Stags Head. Pours dark brown with on efinger beige head. Taste is earthy, roasty, hoppy, smoky, get hints of coffee, berries. finish is dry and bitter. really tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Aug 2011
at 08:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Well balanced, average score on all criteria. Decent beer, but nothing special.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2011
at 03:07
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Clear golden with big off-white head. Flavour is malt, yeast, spices, hops, little bitter, little dry, fruit and a little lemon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2011
at 11:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, light fruity and yeasty. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 070811
Tried
on 07 Aug 2011
at 11:55
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours hazy amber into a 20oz. Magnifico! stein. White head with little retention quickly recedes to coat surface leaving no lacing. Pepper and hop aromas. Crisp with Euro hop bitterness upfront, turning slightly tart in the lasting ground grapefruit pith finish. I had me another.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2011
at 09:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Good saison. Aroma is peppercorn fruitiness and spice, subdued grain, a touch of funk and some citric, herbal hoppiness. Taste has some breadier malt, some yeastiness that gets things fairly dry and moderately dry finish with a touch of hops. Pours a cloudy golden yellow with a white head. Well carbonated. Goes down easily.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2011
at 22:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a murky amber brown with a nice beige head. Nutty malt with citrus hops. There’s a cola tang to the beer, which doesn’t really work for me. I’m also finding some caramel, molasses and a touch of something plasticky. There’s also some banana and spice. The yeast notes seem kinda all over the place. Feel is a bit thin. Taste is sweet with a mildly hop bitter finish. It has a bit of a malted milk ball taste, not quite DME but a bit raw. Decent beer but it lacks the richness that I was hoping for.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2011
at 22:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Whole Foods Market, DC 22oz ($7): Pours an extremely cloudy yellow color with a small white head. Aroma is of the funk, a whole lot of spice, and some hops. Taste is very spicy and peppery. I would say that it is easily more spicy and peppery than your average saison. The hops provide a good bitterness that balances well with the more traditional saison elements. The finish is also very dry. This is kind of a saison taken to an extreme, but it is certainly quite good.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2011
at 09:50