Pours a copper from a bottle. Aroma of pumpkin, vanilla, rum, sweat. Flavor somewhat pumpkiny but not a lot of spice, a good thing in my book. Rum flavors present too. Not very boozy. Tasted a little like Moxie on the first sip, somewhat bittersweet. Good beer.

Good rust-beige head over black beer. Green leaves, roasted, arachide, ureum. Sweet-roasted, bitterish, toffee or treacle, port. Well-bodied, alcoholheat, slick to oily. Bit neutral, no fireworks, but the alcohol is telltale about its power.

No head, pitch black beer with orange-brown highlights. Chocolate, mild sweet roasted, gravy, ketjap soy sauce. Some hops, tons of liquorice. Sweet, chocolate, spirit. Well-bodied, quite slick, alcoholwarming. Stark!

@Beertemple, zwart met fijne bruine kraag. Aroma van geroosterde mout, chocolade, koffie, gebrande tonen, vanille, zoet, matig bitter, zacht en glad/romig, goede lange afdronk, ja lekker ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Can from the Craft Beer Store, Hamburg, chugged on 218333 16/07/16. Lightly hazed orange golden with a decent off white covering. Nose is pale malt, straw, melon, lemon rind. Taste comprises tangerine, toasted malt, melon, citric pith, light pine. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, juicy hop strokes in the close. Decent SIPA.

On draught at Area Four, 7/15/15
Lightly hazy deep, waxy-copper yellow beer with some brighter tints on the edges. Large amount of off-white head is moderately well-retained.
Very, very fruity nose, kind of reminds me of Saizoen Bretta on draught, though minus the brett part. Not heavy on the banana (though it’s there) but with tons of clove, orange, mango and pepper. It all is pretty well-balanced and cohesive, with grainy, caramel-tinged malts sitting in the background. It’s lightly rustic on account of the grain bill, giving it less a straightforward pale/pils malt ubiquitousness. My biggest problem, however, is the lack of distinctive saison quality. No mustiness, very little tartness, cellar notes, minerals, plaster, etc...As I smelled it, I think I would have identified it as a Belgian wit or German here, blindly. Granted, all three styles have a lot of overlap, but I’m less interested in the examples that lean heavily on tropical fruits, clove and banana, which this one does.
In the flavor, it’s got a watery, softly malted texture with lively carbonation, not altogether tight. Spicy (white pepper) and bits of acidity (again, rather German here-like) with pale malt sugars being blunted by a decidedly bitter, astringent note through the middle. Not sure what the hell it is, but it’s very disruptive to the focus and drinkability of the beer. It’s heavily spicy and ends with light hop notes, more clove and light caramel. Meh, Phil can (and has) do much, much better with a saison. I do appreciate the restraint on the abv, however.

Bottle from Vernon CT Hazy dark straw color with a huge bubbly white head that persists. Earth and light funk with a vinous almost grape jelly hint to it. Light citrus and tartness. Medium body with a spirited level of carbonation that leaves a bit of a bubbly mouthfeel. Nice saison if not just a touch on the heavy side.

Keg at the Black Swann, CPK, 02/05/15. Hazed orange amber with a decent beige covering. Nose is caramel malt, pine, straw, bitter tropicana, light bread strokes. Taste comprises pine needle, melon, tea leaves, straw, mango, citric pith. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close peppered with earthy hop bitterness. Decent enough DIPA.