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Sour Apple Saison
Epic Brewing Company


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- From:
- Epic Brewing Company
- Utah, United States
- Style:
- Saison
- ABV:
- 8.1%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 15.3%
- Reviews:
- 144
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 13, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 12, 2010
- Wants:
- 33
- Gots:
- 60
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good


Notes:
Sweet, yet dry and tart, apples spiced with coriander, grains of paradise, anise, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger. There is no wrong way to enjoy this Saison Belgian Style Farmhouse Ale!
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Reviewed by drdiesel9483 from Ohio
3.81/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Look - hazy yellow color with a lasting white head and skimming
Smell - sweet light spices and grains slight apple
Taste - slight apple but more than the scent, alot of the rest like the scent
Feel - medium full body and a medium carbonation
Overall - pretty good beer
Feb 24, 2019Smell - sweet light spices and grains slight apple
Taste - slight apple but more than the scent, alot of the rest like the scent
Feel - medium full body and a medium carbonation
Overall - pretty good beer
Reviewed by iguanodon from Utah
3.52/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.52/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
[Original rating 2012-07-28] Pours a clear gold with a thick white head. Aroma is apple, nutmeg and clove. Taste is sour apple with a bitter finish, some black pepper in the finish. This is very well done, the apple is noticeable but not over done, the belgian base comes through very nicely.
Oct 03, 2018Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
3.05/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.05/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Slightly foggy sparkling pale gold with a fizzy head that condenses to a persistent thin but fluffy film and creamy collar.
Smell is pear, cinnamon and pie crust with clove and licorice, bringing it to an almost potpourri-like aroma, in a bad way.
The "sour" part is more like grapey-lemon maybe, but it's not very present, as the spicy phenolic yeast takes hold. I find myself repeating myself yet again in an Epic "Saison" review--it's so spice-forward it's almost like cinnamon, and I guess that helps emulate an apple-like flavor with an apple pie-like notes, but it's also kind of pumpkin pie-like actually, which ultimately is too weird to fully enjoy.
A very frothy but also light effervescence disappears off the palate quickly to a thin body with a semi-wet, sparkling finish.
Sep 11, 2018Smell is pear, cinnamon and pie crust with clove and licorice, bringing it to an almost potpourri-like aroma, in a bad way.
The "sour" part is more like grapey-lemon maybe, but it's not very present, as the spicy phenolic yeast takes hold. I find myself repeating myself yet again in an Epic "Saison" review--it's so spice-forward it's almost like cinnamon, and I guess that helps emulate an apple-like flavor with an apple pie-like notes, but it's also kind of pumpkin pie-like actually, which ultimately is too weird to fully enjoy.
A very frothy but also light effervescence disappears off the palate quickly to a thin body with a semi-wet, sparkling finish.
Rated by micropale from Pennsylvania
3.74/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Too much cinnamon.
Apr 25, 2017Reviewed by DrDemento456 from Pennsylvania
4.18/5 rDev +18.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +18.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
This beer was a breath of fresh air very different smells and great flavor. Smells of a basic saison with heightened Apple cinnamon and some anise notes. Flavor started off with a pretty strong licorice but drinking it over time mended the funky and wet hey flavors from the style and the tart apple base with a lot of cinnamon flavor. The ginger really brings it all together. Body is pretty good drinks quite light for 8% with a nice smooth sweet finish. Overall quite worth it for $6 a pour with a 16 ounce pint
Mar 18, 2017Reviewed by KTCamm from New Jersey
4.18/5 rDev +18.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +18.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
8/22....pours thick hazy dirty gold, with foam that settles out completely. Buttery, apple rum, butterscotch nose. Quite pleasant. Taste opens with a tart apple and spills into a funky yeasty Belgian blend. Slight bitter buried in their too. Complex and wonderful.
Sep 11, 2016Reviewed by elNopalero from California
3.69/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Release #66
This pours a clouded golden color with thin foaming. There's a prominent green apple aroma, and for once it's not by accident. I get a hint of funky esters underneath, with a light hint of peach and wet hay. The flavor is surprisingly tart, perhaps due to the extra time I sat on the bottle, with a drying finish. Overall muddled, but subtract the green apple and I might have more kind things to say.
Jul 21, 2016This pours a clouded golden color with thin foaming. There's a prominent green apple aroma, and for once it's not by accident. I get a hint of funky esters underneath, with a light hint of peach and wet hay. The flavor is surprisingly tart, perhaps due to the extra time I sat on the bottle, with a drying finish. Overall muddled, but subtract the green apple and I might have more kind things to say.
Rated by adamdescott from Texas
2.42/5 rDev -31.4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.5
2.42/5 rDev -31.4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.5
Drain Pour.
Apr 16, 2016Reviewed by mvanaskie13 from Pennsylvania
3.8/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.8/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured into pint glass, color is gold, opaque, head is off white and presents thin then dissipates to a ring.
Smell is tart, then light off yeast, than it reminds me off a lighter spiced warm cider with cloves and ginger coming through prominently.
Taste is similar to the aroma with a big tart start, then some yeast dryness and a big finish of the spice mixture, anise, coriander, ginger, cloves are prominent.
Mouthfeel is a bit dry with a touch of sour pucker.
Overall, this is a unique brerw, something I could see pairing with dessert at thanksgiving as it has enough sweetness and spice to mingle well with those flavors.
Apr 14, 2016Smell is tart, then light off yeast, than it reminds me off a lighter spiced warm cider with cloves and ginger coming through prominently.
Taste is similar to the aroma with a big tart start, then some yeast dryness and a big finish of the spice mixture, anise, coriander, ginger, cloves are prominent.
Mouthfeel is a bit dry with a touch of sour pucker.
Overall, this is a unique brerw, something I could see pairing with dessert at thanksgiving as it has enough sweetness and spice to mingle well with those flavors.
Reviewed by Dols401 from Utah
3.52/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.52/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Release #71
Pours golden with a thick white head that dissipates quickly.Light Lacing. The yeast and malt are the main aromas. My wife could really pick out the apple but I felt they were over powered by the malt and yeast. The taste is very malt and yeast forward. You have to really let this one sit on your tongue to get that sour fruitiness. The longer a drank this beer the more it grew on me. It is a sipping beer, but a single glass would be good on a hot summers day if you had someone to share the 22 oz bottle with. Otherwise, this a dinner party or drinks with friends kinda beer IMO. If you are fan of sours, you'll enjoy this beer. I did.
I felt it was slightly too carbonated but my taste buds might be a touch sensitive because I have been drinking a lot of stouts and Imperial IPAs that are far less carbonated.
Feb 28, 2016Pours golden with a thick white head that dissipates quickly.Light Lacing. The yeast and malt are the main aromas. My wife could really pick out the apple but I felt they were over powered by the malt and yeast. The taste is very malt and yeast forward. You have to really let this one sit on your tongue to get that sour fruitiness. The longer a drank this beer the more it grew on me. It is a sipping beer, but a single glass would be good on a hot summers day if you had someone to share the 22 oz bottle with. Otherwise, this a dinner party or drinks with friends kinda beer IMO. If you are fan of sours, you'll enjoy this beer. I did.
I felt it was slightly too carbonated but my taste buds might be a touch sensitive because I have been drinking a lot of stouts and Imperial IPAs that are far less carbonated.
Reviewed by That_Turtle from New Jersey
3.55/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.55/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
White head quickly vanished to straw body. Fruity, strongly medicinal nose. Tart apple and subdued peppermint taste with pleasingly dry finish. Paired nicely with a star anise and grains of paradise heavy homemade potato and leek soup. I don't expect that I would have enjoyed it as much on its own.
Oct 24, 2015Reviewed by arizcards from North Carolina
3.41/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Picked up a bomber at the Tempe Bevmo in early August for $9.99. Release #57 bottled on 4/8/15.
Beer poured straw with a decent white head that is leaving some lacing behind.
Nose is slightly medicinal, with Christmas spices.
Taste is slightly medicinal as well, cinnamon, apple juice, slight nutmeg bitterness.
Feel is light to medium bodied with a classic saison feel.
Overall an OK beer, not sure if this is an off batch or bottle. The apple does not compliment the base beer which i have always liked.
Oct 18, 2015Beer poured straw with a decent white head that is leaving some lacing behind.
Nose is slightly medicinal, with Christmas spices.
Taste is slightly medicinal as well, cinnamon, apple juice, slight nutmeg bitterness.
Feel is light to medium bodied with a classic saison feel.
Overall an OK beer, not sure if this is an off batch or bottle. The apple does not compliment the base beer which i have always liked.
Sour Apple Saison from Epic Brewing Company
Beer rating:
80 out of
100 with
483 ratings
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