Extra Loud
Stillwater Artisanal Ales

 

Murky yellow body with a white head. West Coast hops with rice smell, mild floral yeast in the background. Taste is the same with added notes of yuzu, orange and slight resin with a pale malt backbone, yeast is even more subdued than in nose. Feel reflects the resin hops the most, medium light bodied. Obviously a mix of styles, but the hops drive everything here for better or for worse

16 ounce can, canned on 06/10/21, thanks to Brutaltruth for this one! Served in a Teku glass, the beer pours a not quite clear and not quite hazy gold color with about an inch and a half off-white head. Head retention and lacing are both good. Aroma is nice, the brew smells like grapefruit, lemon peel, rice, bready/grainy malt, pine and pineapple. Taste is similar to the aroma but with more of a kick, and there's also some mango, white grape and herbal hop flavors noticeable too. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's a bit slick and creamy with a lot of soft carbonation. Thought this was a good overall brew, would like to try this one again fresher sometime but with that being said it's still tasty now.

An India Pale Saison is not something I've ever had before. Really curious to try this.

Pours golden wheat and hazy, a light white head.

Smell is really nice, a balanced mix of floral hops, grains, and some saison yeast pungency.

This is... delicious. Rich and lightly sweet up front, crisp and a bit acidic bitter in the back. Well balanced, complex, and just really tasty.

Feel is outstanding. Light and tingly, persistent.

I really like this beer. It's like a casserole, a well-balanced mix of saison and IPA that just works.

 

 

From the 16 oz can in a snifter. This solid little ale pours a cloudy golden yellow
with a nice billowy head of white foam that subsides to a thick ring and layer with
excellent lacing. Nose of pineapple, mango, and light pine with sweet honey malts
and yeasty white breaded notes. Flavors exceed the nose with light cracker, honey,
mango, pineapple, pine, and yeasty notes amongst herbal hits. Mouth feel is medium,
medium effervescent carbonation that is quite prickly, and a herbal hop fruited finish
that is lightly dry.

Overall, a nice little brew

Cheers

The can listed this beer as India Pale - Saison Ale but I thing the Beer Advocate classification as a Belgian Pale Ale is more accurate. This was a fairly enjoyable beer but nothing remarkable. Poured from a 16 oz can into a a tulip glass, this beer showed a hazy pale yellow color, lots of bubbles/carbnation and a bubbly white head that settled into a medium sized frothy cap. Head retention was good and there were thin bands of lacing on the glass. Aroma and flavor were fairly mild, malty, slightly sweet, some yeast presence but very little that would characterize it as a Saison. Mouthfeel was fairly good, nicely carbonated and smooth. Certainly a good summertime refreshment. OK but I have had better!!

Bought one 16 ounce can from The Beer Temple and I'm going back for more so I can give a proper review.

5/5/22 Appropriately poured a second can into my Hennepin tulip because, to me, this is a saison (albeit more hops than Hennepin.) Extra Loud's color Looks like an appetizing pale table ale, but I'd like a few more protein swirls. Smells are mostly fruit motivated by a sophisticated yeast (because a bill with rice in it is, at best, subtle and rarely turns ups this much fruit.) I'm expecting really hoppy Tastes; given the can's billing of "India Pale, saison ale," but its hop levels are modestly above the average of the classic saison. (Incidentally, I consider myself a Euro-Saison Head, a category I credit to StonedTrippin... the only other review on BA.) Extra Loud is a bit hoppy for a Feel that lets subtle food have their say in my mouth.

As for my 4.5 Overall rating... that is because I first drank Extra Loud with the full gamut of summer fare and it performed as well as the food... appetizers, then red sauce on pasta, then a burger with BBQ sauce, then a salad. Extra Loud passes.

For the second can and its meal, I chose an Indian dal. The hops didn't calm the mouth caused by the Indian spices, but Stillwater knows how to play with food. (Of their 6 brews, I have had 4 saisons good with food.)

All said (and lightly edited), I make no change in my rating and keep count over at UnTappd.

 

 

 

weird new one here from these guys, a style hybrid between an ipa and a saison, and its made with sake rice, an interesting ingredient. these guys have continued to hold my attention and stoke since day one, and i am glad they are still at it, even if their classic farmhouse stuff has turned a little new school. this one is pale yellow, bright and just a little bit hazy, with a big puffy white head on it close to two inches high in my glass. the aroma is amazing, southern hemisphere hops for sure, nelson, maybe even a sorachi ace element actually too, cantaloupe, white wine grapes, elderflower, wildly intriguing. the rice is earthy and starchy, the rest of the malt is low key and dry, and the yeast is relatively generic to me, more of the same from them, a french type strain, run warm, not my favorite, i want more rustic funk, but it fits with these hops pretty well, despite being a little sharp. the flavor is everything the nose is, the fruitiness of the hops is incredible, lime leaf, kiwi, white tea, white peach, rock candy, i wish i knew what varietals were in play here. the yeast is a little peppery which is cool, but these overly familiar vinous tones are somewhat of a distraction, and i wish the whole time this was bretty and rustic and wild, rather than what it is, this would be epic with a different ferment on it. the rice is slightly floral to me, a little behind everything else going on in the flavor, but the texture of this is amazing, pillow soft with a big expansive memory foam sort of feel, its creamy and rich but its also bone dry, i love its contribution to mouthfeel. effervescent carbonation too, just right for the style, and overall this was pretty impressive, especially as clean saisons go. not much bitterness from the hops but all kinds of flavor. this is globally inspired beer that almost moves beyond style limitations, wonderful execution.