5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On draught at Area 4, 2/24/16.
Darker than usual for a kolsch with a strong ruddy-copper hue, clear and with a small, white, poorly retained head atop.
Grassy and rather spicy, but a strong cereal character and light toastiness gets in the way of what should be a brighter noble hop character. Clean, though, despite being muted and just smelling a touch old.
Soapy, bready, not much maltiness and very grainy, with light, peppery hops and bitterness. It’s pretty on-par with the rest of their portfolio, if maybe a touch more drinkable (though that’s probably just due to its relative lightness). Carbonation is moderate, texture is grainy and watery. Dry, at least.
Darker than usual for a kolsch with a strong ruddy-copper hue, clear and with a small, white, poorly retained head atop.
Grassy and rather spicy, but a strong cereal character and light toastiness gets in the way of what should be a brighter noble hop character. Clean, though, despite being muted and just smelling a touch old.
Soapy, bready, not much maltiness and very grainy, with light, peppery hops and bitterness. It’s pretty on-par with the rest of their portfolio, if maybe a touch more drinkable (though that’s probably just due to its relative lightness). Carbonation is moderate, texture is grainy and watery. Dry, at least.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2016
at 16:09
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours clear gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention soaps as it recedes. Sour garlic and onion aromas. Soft with cooked vegetables and soggy nuts upfront turning mildly bitter before the lasting hot sourdough and garlic finish.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2016
at 16:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Fresh bottle (fridge), 2015, drunk 11/20/15.
White head tops a sparklingly bright lemon yellow body. Retention is medium.
Alright, I’m impressed. Completely wrote this brewery off after pukwudgie and Fee des Fleurs, but this is a wonderfully bright, clean nose full of melon, strawberry, cherry and sweet pineapple. Not on the same level as the Mozaccalypse I had the night before, but getting there. The malt bill being wholly 2 row helps the cause, adding only light honey and white bread dough, and being quite out-of-the-way. No alcohol noted. A bit of paperiness/blandness and it’s not quite as tropical and lush as it could be, with a bit of earthy character to it that dosent really fit.
Medium to medium-full bodied, with good attenuation as Ipswich can usually be counted on for. Strawberries, apples, mangos and light pineapple in the flavor are not quite as juicy as the nose would let on, with a bit of heavy citrus cast over everything. Still, this is worlds better than expected, clean, not boozey and with no caramel/crystal malt to ruin things. Lemony-grapefruit-like finish with moderate bitterness and medium, lively carbonation.
White head tops a sparklingly bright lemon yellow body. Retention is medium.
Alright, I’m impressed. Completely wrote this brewery off after pukwudgie and Fee des Fleurs, but this is a wonderfully bright, clean nose full of melon, strawberry, cherry and sweet pineapple. Not on the same level as the Mozaccalypse I had the night before, but getting there. The malt bill being wholly 2 row helps the cause, adding only light honey and white bread dough, and being quite out-of-the-way. No alcohol noted. A bit of paperiness/blandness and it’s not quite as tropical and lush as it could be, with a bit of earthy character to it that dosent really fit.
Medium to medium-full bodied, with good attenuation as Ipswich can usually be counted on for. Strawberries, apples, mangos and light pineapple in the flavor are not quite as juicy as the nose would let on, with a bit of heavy citrus cast over everything. Still, this is worlds better than expected, clean, not boozey and with no caramel/crystal malt to ruin things. Lemony-grapefruit-like finish with moderate bitterness and medium, lively carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2015
at 12:23
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours clear gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Sourdough aromas. Soft with sourdough and sweet cracked corn upfront turning to flowery heather and hay in the medium length finish. Meh.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2015
at 20:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours hazy gold into a snifter. Fruity summer flower aromas. Dry with tart summer fruit, yeast and lavender.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2015
at 18:41
6/10
Tried
on 13 Sep 2015
at 20:09
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from bottle thanks Airforcehops pours light hazy lemon with a one finger white head. Aromas of yeast floral funk and alot of white pepper and mango. Taste is similar to aroma with a lingering peppery finish. Not bad but not stellar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2015
at 19:04
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 oz. bottle purchased at Kappy’s Liquors. Danvers, MA. Hazy gold color, light legs of lace down the sides of the snifter. The aroma is spicy yeast, flowers and grain.
The French yeast displays the same flavor as the aroma. Spicy pepper, floral hints with a grainy texture over the palate. Black pepper and floral hints linger in the finish.
This will not blow your mind but I feel ClarkVV was pretty harsh the the score of this brew. The yeast is still well represented in the flavor profile and overall it’s a solid example of the style. I had no problem drinking this.
The French yeast displays the same flavor as the aroma. Spicy pepper, floral hints with a grainy texture over the palate. Black pepper and floral hints linger in the finish.
This will not blow your mind but I feel ClarkVV was pretty harsh the the score of this brew. The yeast is still well represented in the flavor profile and overall it’s a solid example of the style. I had no problem drinking this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2015
at 13:17
4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Sampled from the bottle at a store tasting, Martys in Allston, 7/10/15
Very carbonated, sparkling dark gold with a large, foamy white head that shows good retention.
Spicy and heavily estery nose shows bananas, apples, mango and heavy white pepper. Some alcohol and heavy sugars show up, giving the fruitiness a very candied-like aroma and dampening the whole experience. Dosent seem like any classic saison yeast I’m familiar with, though it’s difficult to tell through all of this sweetness...
Flavor, then, is a mouthfull of bready-sweet malts, with alcohol astringency and dryness coupled with white pepper and other odd spices. Sugary, underfermented and boozey. It’s odd, for as sweet as it is, it’s still rather boozey and estery. Sponge cake, lemon icing, lightly spicy hops and more fruit cocktail lingering....no thanks.
Very carbonated, sparkling dark gold with a large, foamy white head that shows good retention.
Spicy and heavily estery nose shows bananas, apples, mango and heavy white pepper. Some alcohol and heavy sugars show up, giving the fruitiness a very candied-like aroma and dampening the whole experience. Dosent seem like any classic saison yeast I’m familiar with, though it’s difficult to tell through all of this sweetness...
Flavor, then, is a mouthfull of bready-sweet malts, with alcohol astringency and dryness coupled with white pepper and other odd spices. Sugary, underfermented and boozey. It’s odd, for as sweet as it is, it’s still rather boozey and estery. Sponge cake, lemon icing, lightly spicy hops and more fruit cocktail lingering....no thanks.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2015
at 12:45
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours gold into a shaker. White head with good retention recedes leaving soapy lacing. Tropical fruit and aspergum aromas. Dry with sweet bready caramel upfront turning to sour earth in the lasting bitter finish.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2015
at 17:21