Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
330mL bottle. Pours deep dark brown with minimal tan head. Aroma has tons of bourbon, roast, chocolate, coffee. Flavour has a lot of bourbon and espresso. These flavours are very well-integrated with each other, but the beer lacks the unifying quality of a solid base beer; the palate is pretty thin and I'm not getting much character from the underlying stout. The use of barrels and adjuncts here is excellent (I especially appreciate the long aging process), but the base is wanting.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Secret Geisha Horizon from Temporal Artisan Ales 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
330mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is potent, with intense espresso beans, followed by bourbon barrels, some vanillin, and sticky sugars. Flavour has plenty of bourbon and espresso, with some vanillin, light sugars, and more espresso. Reasonable combo of flavours. The real issue here is the usual: the body is very thin -- those base beers really need some work for the barrel to have the desired effect. Good espresso and bourbon, but the base isn't strong enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2024. Pours cloudy pale yellow with a white head. Aroma has some light malts, spicy saison yeast, dry grass. Flavour has sweet bready malts, light citrus.
RennyDoig (4553) reviewed Balaton Saison from Temporal Artisan Ales 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2024. Pours cloudy red. Aroma has a candied, bready character. Flavour has some semi-sweet cherries, bready.
RennyDoig (4553) reviewed Saison Rubus from Temporal Artisan Ales 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2024. Pours murky pale orange. Aroma is a bit off, moldy raspberries? Flavour has sour golden raspberries, a lot of punch. Aroma has some barnyard funk, orange peel. Flavour has good sour emphasis, red wine grape tannins. Solid.
RennyDoig (4553) reviewed Orchard Blend from Temporal Artisan Ales 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle pour at Farmhouse Fest 2024. Pours murky orange. Aroma has slightly caramelized orange peels and a dirty yeast character. Flavour is pungently sour, peaches. Harsh acidity.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Saison Rubus from Temporal Artisan Ales 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle pour at FHF 2024, pours a hazy amber orange with a small white head. Aroma is dominated by tart raspberries, some juiciness, and wild yeast. Flavour is sharp, with lots of acidic raspberries, some wild yeast, but it's not dominated by acidity. This needs some work, though the aromatic raspberries are nice.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Orchard Blend from Temporal Artisan Ales 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle pour at FHF 2024, pours a cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of juicy plums, gentle pear, and rustic saison yeast, with a touch of oak. Flavour is juicy, being dominated by plums upfront, followed by oak, and a hint of pear skins. A bit acidic, but there's some nice fruitiness. Decent but needs some refinement.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Foeder Table Saison from Temporal Artisan Ales 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pour at FHF 2024, pours a cloudy blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out rustic saison yeast, some bugginess, and toasted grain. Flavour is dry, with rustic saison yeast, lots of toasted grains, maybe a touch of THP. Dry, rustic and grainy; not particularly complex but dry and well-made.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Balaton Saison from Temporal Artisan Ales 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle pour at FHF 2024, pours a cloudy dark red with a small white head. Aroma has some strange cherry character and a strange curry spice-like character — odd. Flavour is better than it smells, with lots of bright cherry pie, a hint of baking spices, and gentle wild yeast. Lots of cherry pie and baking spices. Pretty good.