Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
0.5 L bottle. Pours a clear, reddish, brown color, with a fair, frothy, beige head. The aroma is black limes, toasted oak, caramel, cantaloupe, and birch bark. Sweet and malty, with a mellow, earthy sour flavor. Medium body, a bit sharp, and sticky. Easy and tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown with a frothy, beige head. Aroma full of brown sugar, Backhaus Brot, dank cellar. Touch of indistinct fruitiness. Taste is caramel sweet over a rich, malty body. Warming finish. Goes down easy enough. Low hops profile, a little more bitterness at the end would make this a great one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
I bought a 500 ml bottle at the brewery and sampled it in their patio with the offered tulip glass. It showed up a clear gold-yellow in the pour with a small white head. The scent was citrus, nectarines and meadow. A drink gave me peaches, malt, apricots, some hops, all with a bit of honey sweetness. There certainly was a bit of bitterness you don't find in the average tripel. A decent brew on a great summer afternoon in Santa Fe.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500mL bottle, pours a clear pale golden with a large white head. Aroma brings out some funky feet, earthiness, a little black pepper, and bready malt. Flavour is dominated by the brett, with black pepper, earthy funk, and some moderate-heavy spiciness. Nicely spicy and peppery, but not the most complex brett'd saison. Good.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
On tap at Tumbleroot, pours an opaque muddy yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of earthy hops, some citrus and bready malt — pretty muddled and muted nose. Flavour is a little better calibrated, with citrus hops and biscuity malt. A bit chalky and muddled but not egregious. It's okay.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Tumbleroot, pours an opaque bright yellow with a small white head. Aroma is chalky, with muddled earthy hops and stone fruit pulp - ugh. Flavour is muddled and chalky, with fermented out honey, earthy hops, and bready malt. Way too muddled, with poor hop expression; the honey doesn't help. Not good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Tumbleroot, pours a cl at copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out muted, somewhat stale earthy hops, and biscuity malt. Flavour is a little better, with some pine cones upfront, earthy notes and crisp biscuity malt. Earthy, somewhat piney and bready. It's alright… a bit tired tasting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Tumbleroot, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out fresh herbaceous notes, bright grass and biscuity malt. Flavour is bright and clean, with fresh herbaceous, grassy notes, straw and crisp biscuity malt. Dry, straw-like and herbaceous. Solid stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 ounce can from Total Wine Santa Fe, 1/24/22. Hazy pale orange, large frothy white head, good retention. Aroma of yeast, rice, citrus. Taste is citrus, rice, yeast. Juicy, low bitterness, well balanced.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
One of a handful of beers to come home with me after a recent visit to Santa Fe, a brewer I am unfamiliar with as is the brew, obviously. A 500 ml bottle, 8.9% abv on the label, now opened and pouring into my Great Heights snifter. I see a semi-opaque, gold-red liquid finished by a small head of silvery white foam. The nose is enticing, lightly hoppy, input from the honey and some alfalfa. The taste is moderately hoppy for a dipa, malt, varnish and just a hint of mango sweetness and the same with a bitterness. Interesting.