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Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company
- From:
- Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company
- Mississippi, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.53 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 14, 2021
- Added:
- Jan 29, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.53/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
2.53/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
16 fl oz pull-tab can purchased in New Orleans, Louisiana.
"Saison-style ale aged in Chardonnay barrels." 6.5% ABV. "Contains wheat."
Served cold into a stemless wine glass.
A: Pours a murky dull copper...appears unfiltered. Not much to look at. Head retention is poor...maybe 1 minute at best.
Sm: Doughy yeast.
T: Bread dough. Obvious chardonnay white wine flavour. No oak/woodsy flavour. Pear, peach...the fruit is all from the white wine. Biscuity Saccharomyces yeast. Lacks any esters that would indicate Belgian yeast was used. Wheat, 2-row.
Has no overt hop flavours (nor does it need any).
The barrel character dominates the beer to its detriment, and the base beer feels flimsy and weak anyway...this isn't a peppery, funky, barnyard-redolent, spicy/herbal, or otherwise interesting saison, and the white wine barrel aging can't fix a bad base beer.
Mf: Unrefreshing. Medium-bodied. Smooth, a biteen dry, well carbonated. Acidic.
O: Lacklustre even for an American attempt at the difficult style. Not up there with the Prairie Artisan Ales and Ommegang saison style ales, let alone traditional Belgian expressions of the style. You can't just barrel age a subpar base beer and expect it to turn out great (though Founders' Backwoods Bastard seems to indicate I may be wrong).
I do like the white wine flavours and they seem to have a handle on barrel aging, but it's the basics of brewing a good beer to start they seem to have written off.
Low C- (2.53) / BELOW AVERAGE
Feb 14, 2021"Saison-style ale aged in Chardonnay barrels." 6.5% ABV. "Contains wheat."
Served cold into a stemless wine glass.
A: Pours a murky dull copper...appears unfiltered. Not much to look at. Head retention is poor...maybe 1 minute at best.
Sm: Doughy yeast.
T: Bread dough. Obvious chardonnay white wine flavour. No oak/woodsy flavour. Pear, peach...the fruit is all from the white wine. Biscuity Saccharomyces yeast. Lacks any esters that would indicate Belgian yeast was used. Wheat, 2-row.
Has no overt hop flavours (nor does it need any).
The barrel character dominates the beer to its detriment, and the base beer feels flimsy and weak anyway...this isn't a peppery, funky, barnyard-redolent, spicy/herbal, or otherwise interesting saison, and the white wine barrel aging can't fix a bad base beer.
Mf: Unrefreshing. Medium-bodied. Smooth, a biteen dry, well carbonated. Acidic.
O: Lacklustre even for an American attempt at the difficult style. Not up there with the Prairie Artisan Ales and Ommegang saison style ales, let alone traditional Belgian expressions of the style. You can't just barrel age a subpar base beer and expect it to turn out great (though Founders' Backwoods Bastard seems to indicate I may be wrong).
I do like the white wine flavours and they seem to have a handle on barrel aging, but it's the basics of brewing a good beer to start they seem to have written off.
Low C- (2.53) / BELOW AVERAGE
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