Saison Japon
Thunder Road Brewing Company
- From:
- Thunder Road Brewing Company
- Australia
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.59 | pDev: 3.34%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 05, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 24, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
3.45/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.45/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Brewed for GABS in Melbourne, May 2014. Went in expecting basically a homebrew first saison-type beer.
Pours a very pale straw colour, mildest bit of haze in the body. Head is white, foamy and retaining pretty well. Looks pretty nice.
Smells very phenolic and spicy. Notes of barnyard, green pepper and mildly corporeal at the edges. Decent saison aroma.
Taste is more dry, a bit less of that phenolic character but decent organic saison notes. Barnyard, touch of horse and wet lucerne. Grassy on the back. Not bad.
Touch fizzy on the mouthfeel, possibly just the body is a bit thin which is a shame.
Decent to-style saison; I do expect very little from the Thunder Road boys and they're yet to let me down. Take that as a compliment or an insult as you like.
Jul 02, 2014Pours a very pale straw colour, mildest bit of haze in the body. Head is white, foamy and retaining pretty well. Looks pretty nice.
Smells very phenolic and spicy. Notes of barnyard, green pepper and mildly corporeal at the edges. Decent saison aroma.
Taste is more dry, a bit less of that phenolic character but decent organic saison notes. Barnyard, touch of horse and wet lucerne. Grassy on the back. Not bad.
Touch fizzy on the mouthfeel, possibly just the body is a bit thin which is a shame.
Decent to-style saison; I do expect very little from the Thunder Road boys and they're yet to let me down. Take that as a compliment or an insult as you like.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.58/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Tried on-tap at GABS 2014 in Melbourne. This was a collaboration between Thunder Road and Yoshi Kurasawa, a cocktail expert from Tokyo, and infused with Japanese botanicals.
Pours a very, very pale lemon colour with a tinge of green to it. Very clear and light in the body. Head is firm, forming a solid white crest above the beer that leaves a little streaky lace. Looks okay, but very, very light.
Initially, this had a big thunk of yeasty dankness, but once the botanicals get going there are things to enjoy in it. Sharp greenery and a suggestion of citrus. It grew on my after a while, but the initial impression wasn't good.
Light, clean entry on the palate lends itself to an almost lemonade sweetness through the centre. Brightness from the botanicals and the greenery lifts it so it doesn't get bogged down. Finish is zesty and dry, with a very clean, very light aftertaste. It's pretty decent by the end.
Eventually, I liked it, although there were a few wobbles along the way. While I had a couple of questions, I think eventually in answered them and we got a decent beer out of it. Not bad at all.
Jun 24, 2014Pours a very, very pale lemon colour with a tinge of green to it. Very clear and light in the body. Head is firm, forming a solid white crest above the beer that leaves a little streaky lace. Looks okay, but very, very light.
Initially, this had a big thunk of yeasty dankness, but once the botanicals get going there are things to enjoy in it. Sharp greenery and a suggestion of citrus. It grew on my after a while, but the initial impression wasn't good.
Light, clean entry on the palate lends itself to an almost lemonade sweetness through the centre. Brightness from the botanicals and the greenery lifts it so it doesn't get bogged down. Finish is zesty and dry, with a very clean, very light aftertaste. It's pretty decent by the end.
Eventually, I liked it, although there were a few wobbles along the way. While I had a couple of questions, I think eventually in answered them and we got a decent beer out of it. Not bad at all.
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