Classic Loaf
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

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From:
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
 
Virginia, United States
Style:
Belgian Saison
ABV:
4.9%
Score:
+6 ratings needed
Avg:
3.71 | pDev: 7.28%
Ratings:
4 | reviews: 2
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Apr 25, 2016
Added:
Dec 04, 2015
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 3.75 by stereosforgeeks from Virginia

Apr 25, 2016
 
Rated: 4.1 by Zach136 from Georgia

Dec 24, 2015
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Reviewed by 11-52_4hops from Virginia

3.65/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nice cloudy honey color. Carbonation to spare, but settled quickly. Nose is yeast, wheat, and (although I may have been influenced by the label) bread dough. Taste is wheat, some pleasant funk, a bit of sour. Subtle hoppy bitterness pretty much only on the very back of the tongue. Carbonation dominates the mouth feel -- maybe a bit too much. Overall, I think this is a solid beer. I have only had a few other Saisons so Hard for me to say how it fares in class. Pretty sure I would enjoy this even more outside in the Summer. Another great example where Hardywood picked an aptly descriptive name for one of their brews.
Dec 23, 2015
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Reviewed by KEEPonPOURING from Virginia

3.34/5  rDev -10%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a 750ml bottle into a snifter.

Pours a cloudy pale orange with a nice frothy white two inch head that settles down to a half inch in sixty seconds with minimal lacing.

There is some pleasant funk.

The taste is similar but with an underlying bite, something sharp I cant quite put my finger on it. Is it the spelt, wheat, and bread? Probably.

Highly carbonated with a bit of a lighter body than what I'm used to in a saison but Its really quite nice.

Hardywood has some work to do in this category. Its nice to see them branching out from their money makers (GBS & company). This isn't a very complex brew but, that being said, this is a refreshing and highly drinkable farmhouse style ale. One that I hope the good people over at Hardywood continue to work on.
Dec 04, 2015