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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle (from gambrinus no1). Pours hazy brownish. Aroma is very sweet, caramel, dishrag, acetone. Flavor is sweet and bitter, dishrsg, malt, caramel. Finish is sweet and dishrag. Overall: bad, but not a horror.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle 330ml (from Tartu). Dark red-brown colour, small white head. Sweet toffee and berries in the nose, some alcohol lurking in. Medium-bodied. Sweetish berry juice, toffee in the flavour too. Flattish feeling. Warming alcohol. Kind of homebrewish feeling.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle (from SIP). Pours hazy golden with whiteish head. Aroma is fruity, citric, apples. Flavor is sweet and bitter, citrus, orange, dirtiness. Carbonation is really high. Overall: way too much carbo+quite dirty. Also not red or pink in any way (despite what label says, this is APA).

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Sample from bottle, sip bottle shop. Straight from the bottle. Birch notes, straw and malts. Not much smoke noticeable. Malty brew with some hay and hops.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours nice cloudy orange, turns darker when I pour also yeast bottom into the glass. Nice thick foam head, quite white. Nose is super spicy, Belgian saison yeast is strong, yeast spiciness has been further emphasised by rye spices. Herbal and some sour notes, feels thick. Taste has some pretty decent saison yeast, thick and spicy, farmhouse character definitely there, reminds me also koduõlu, I guess saison as a style is quite close. Warming and nutritious brew, quite simple and "farm-like" but not half bad.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Sip Shop, sampled on October 3rd, 2017 - which is also the BBD on the bottle. I didn't check about that number, so was totally unprepared when bottle basically exploded in my hand, gushing one third of its innards out. Belgian yeast spice aroma flying around in the air. Then spent 10 minutes trying to transfer liquid from bottle to glass, because of excessive foaming. Nose had some more of these spices, somewhat in pungent and aggressive way. Taste has more of them, also herbal bitterness, quite messy and bit metallic overall. Dry bitter aftertaste. Well, I can somehow drink this, which does not mean that you should.