Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Vinland Three from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle drunk Spring 2015.
Pours a clear, dark chestnut with auburn highlights and a dark beige head that shows low retention.
Smells like raspberry. Just like Vinland Two, it's amazing how much fruit character you get just from the fruit yeast, despite there being no actual fruit in this. A bit of light lactic and very light acetic acid are noted, as well, with a pretty sparse malt character of cracker and biscuit. Seemingly very high attenuation as with Two. No alcohol or flaw, but not exactly getting too much other than the strong raspberry character.
Same with the flavor. The beer is fine showing good attenuation and a reasonably soft, malty texture, but it's just full of raspberry and moderate lactic acidity which don't lead to much interesting character. Moderate, somewhat loose carbonation and a good deal of wateriness. Obviously a saison in malt character only and here it even has medium malts (which don't really add too much toast or anything, thankfully). More of a novelty really, like the other entries in the series, despite it being a fun idea.
Leighton (35102) reviewed Fistbump the Void from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at Cotteridge Convention 2018 - cheers all! Pours clearish brown with a foamy khaki head. Alright alternative saison, has notes of caramel, brown bread, mild earth, orange peel. Light to medium bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Finishes with toasted brown bread, light alcohol warmth. Drinkable enough.
bookman65 (6211) reviewed Grandma's Beach House from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours slightly hazy, pink-orange (if you can picture that) with pretty much no head. Aroma has some cherry and some citrus, also lactic acid, and flowers. Flavor is sour, with lemon and cherry, and a flowery-soapy element that gets worse the longer you drink. Not sure what this is supposed to be. A gose? A berliner weisse? Sour IPA? I don't think it's any of those things and also not very good, either.
Bytemesis (16323) reviewed Voltage from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can thanks to wchesser! Pours hazy yellow, medium white head, dissipates slowly, good lacing. Aroma is a bit grassy, floral, melon, grapefruit. Flavor is light sweet, very light bitter. Medium body. OK
Jow (8450) reviewed Saison Renaud from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home for divisional series opener Go sox! Cloudy yellow orange one finger head. Nose is lovely fruity, light spice and yeasty. Tastes of aggressive yeast, pears and citrus, white pepper, bubblegum, some straw. Clean palate. Quite nice.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Blueberry Frappe from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at Lulu's, 9/9/18.
Dark blueberry-violet milkshake-looking color, as promised. Blueberry-tinted, pink head shows pretty good retention.
Piney hops are dankish, fresh and provide light papaya-mango, though this could be mostly yeast-induced. Blueberry skin and lactose provide light tartness, with spicy/seedy/peppery notes on the finish. No sweetness to the nose, nor juiciness, but still quite authentic in the fruit category with no overdone/resinous IPA characteristics. No alcohol or flaw noted.
In the mouth, it's surprisingly juicy, given the relatively tame/dryish nose. Sweet malts mix with lactose but it never gets too sweet, of course. Low bitterness throughout though some light blueberry tartness/spiciness helps add balance, as does the green, leafy, dank hop character. Quite nice and interesting and very good at capturing the essence of the blueberry. Sweetness does taper off nicely, on the finish.
Fergus (31537) reviewed Tropical Chelsea from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can shared at Craft Beer Co Islington. 12/09/2018. Thanks to New Ken. A thick bright orange coloured pour with a halo of white head. ARoma is dank grassy hop, green mango, spicy tropical, grass. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, mango juicy , orange and tangerine. Nice hop oils. Palate is semi sweet, medium, resinopus. Nice stuff. Juicy.
SHIG (13887) reviewed Painted Smile from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured orange with white head. Aroma is stale hops. Taste is metallic, hops, burn.
SHIG (13887) reviewed Reko from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle: Poured a murky toilet bowl after the long night of drinking orange brown, Head was a whisper white. A is a funky mix fruit, straw and bold coffee. Huge coffee hits the tongue with some funk in finish.
poisoneddwarf (5540) reviewed The Null from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Corked and caged 750. 2016 vintage. Aroma is caramel, dark fruit, lemon peel, dark bread, dusty basement, smoke, Pours a really dark brown, nearly black, with amber highlights and a one+ finger beige head with great retention. Some mold or something around the lip of the bottle after I pulled the cork. Taste is sweet with mild smoke character; faint tartness in the finish. Some licorice notes, dark bread crust. Not bad.