7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours deep gold into a shaker. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes to coat surface. Sour caramel aromas. Thick with sweet tofee and sourdough upfront continuing with mildly hot caramel in the medium length finish.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2016
at 17:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours deep mahogany into a snifter. White head with little retention recedes to hug rim. Dark caramel aromas. Hot and thick with toffee and dark raisin front to back. Lasting hot alcohol burn. Too hot.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2016
at 18:43
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours deep amber into a shaker. White head with good retention recedes to skim surface. Sweet yeast and resin aromas. Dry with sweet clove and yeast front to back. Lasting earthy finish.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2016
at 17:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours clear yellow into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet caramel aroma. Medium bodied with caramel and mild earthy hop finish.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2016
at 17:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz. bottle. Slightly hazy yellow color, thin soapy head. Aroma is mild yeast that gives traces of clove, banana and mild floral hints.
Flavor is weak clove and Belgian yeast that gives of the same banana and flower notes. Lighter body with a mild yeast ester finish. Easy to drink although I would call this a saison be any sense of the imagination. It’s a standard Belgian blond. But the brewer calls it a saison…. I’m not going to fight the labeling. Drying texture with a light body. Ok, OK, it’s borderline a saison. But not in a traditional sense.
Flavor is weak clove and Belgian yeast that gives of the same banana and flower notes. Lighter body with a mild yeast ester finish. Easy to drink although I would call this a saison be any sense of the imagination. It’s a standard Belgian blond. But the brewer calls it a saison…. I’m not going to fight the labeling. Drying texture with a light body. Ok, OK, it’s borderline a saison. But not in a traditional sense.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2016
at 15:20
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours deep mahogany into a tulip. Pancake head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Dark caramel and pine aromas. Medium bodied with dark caramel, pine and resin front to back. Lasting bitter earth finish.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2015
at 16:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity @ GBBF 2015. Pours a yellow golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity citrus hoppy grapefruit aroma. Fruity malty grapefruit hoppy bitter flavor. Has a fruity malty grapefruit hoppy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2015
at 04:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2015, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Ipswich Route 101 ].Clear medium yellow color with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, fruity, peach, pineapple, apricot. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, hoppy, fruity, peach. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20150811]
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Nov 2015
at 04:00
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Pours a dark brown. Heavy chocolate malts, a little smoky. Typical thin oatmeal stout. Okay beer.
Tried
on 13 Nov 2015
at 23:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz. bottle at Julio’s Liquor Brewfest. Hazy yellow color with thin head in a 3 oz sample glass. Aroma is a myriad of fruits, grapefruit zest, orange, maybe peach and light resin.
The fruit is the first thing that hits my tongue and after would a modest grain bill. The finish has some pine. The thing I always get from a session IPA is a light watered down mouthfeel. This does NOT feel watery; I really appreciate that because it’s not easy to make a session feel like a higher gravity ale. The hop profile also gives a larger flavor then what it is. Wow, a session IPA done correctly. Nice job here.
The fruit is the first thing that hits my tongue and after would a modest grain bill. The finish has some pine. The thing I always get from a session IPA is a light watered down mouthfeel. This does NOT feel watery; I really appreciate that because it’s not easy to make a session feel like a higher gravity ale. The hop profile also gives a larger flavor then what it is. Wow, a session IPA done correctly. Nice job here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2015
at 17:14