Shady Character
Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom
- From:
- Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 3.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 28, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 28, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, the current seasonal (winter, I'm presuming?) release from Wild Rose, which is a dark Saison. Ok, it's winter.
This beer pours a mildly hazy, dark orange-brick brown colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some layered snow line lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of lightly toasted wheat malt, subtle bittersweet cocoa powder notes, some muddled earthy spiciness, estery Belgian yeast, a laid-back black orchard fruitiness, and some weak leafy, weedy, and floral noble hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a less edgy wheatiness, some wet peppercorn spice, a growing tart fruity character, musty chocolate, some sedate yeastiness, and more understated leafy, earthy, and dead floral green hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly light for the style, what with its lackadaisical frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a bit of yeast getting stuck in one or more of my palates. It finishes off-dry, as the fruitiness, chocolate, and spiciness coalesce into a sense of undeserved balance.
Overall, this is an interesting and apt take on a Saison, the extra roasted essences doing well to evoke the powers of steeling oneself against a crazy-cold Alberta winter - which is usually the case. However, as I write this, it is dark outside, and still +5C, so maybe I should have held on to this one until late March, when the mercury should be below freezing again.
Jan 29, 2017This beer pours a mildly hazy, dark orange-brick brown colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some layered snow line lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of lightly toasted wheat malt, subtle bittersweet cocoa powder notes, some muddled earthy spiciness, estery Belgian yeast, a laid-back black orchard fruitiness, and some weak leafy, weedy, and floral noble hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a less edgy wheatiness, some wet peppercorn spice, a growing tart fruity character, musty chocolate, some sedate yeastiness, and more understated leafy, earthy, and dead floral green hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly light for the style, what with its lackadaisical frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a bit of yeast getting stuck in one or more of my palates. It finishes off-dry, as the fruitiness, chocolate, and spiciness coalesce into a sense of undeserved balance.
Overall, this is an interesting and apt take on a Saison, the extra roasted essences doing well to evoke the powers of steeling oneself against a crazy-cold Alberta winter - which is usually the case. However, as I write this, it is dark outside, and still +5C, so maybe I should have held on to this one until late March, when the mercury should be below freezing again.
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