ReplicAle 2015 - Illinois Saison
Tighthead Brewing Company
- From:
- Tighthead Brewing Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.13 | pDev: 4.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 19, 2015
- Added:
- Sep 04, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TMoney2591 from Illinois
3.27/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Served on-tap in a shaker pint glass at the brewery's tasting room.
Beginning a night of trivia title-defending with this year's ReplicAle, a saison, the brewery-decided variable being the addition of fruit, spice, or dry-hopping. Tighthead chose to dry-hop with Hull Melon and Mandarina Bavaria. Let's do this: It pours a mostly clear golden-straw topped by a finger of off-white foam. The nose comprises sourdough, light tangelo, mild perfume, a drop or two of honey, and a touch of grass. The taste brings in more of the same, though, for me, the yeast and the hops nearly cancel each other out, leaving a relatively clean pale ale with some grassy hop notes and a sourdough-tinged finish: No special dry-hop notes, no Belgian yeast notes to speak of. Weird. The body is a light medium, with a light moderate carbonation and a fluid feel. Overall, a nice enough beer, but one whose saison character and dry-hop character don't really show up to play very often. I still generally enjoy the beer, but find it almost frustratingly plain for what it is.
Sep 11, 2015Beginning a night of trivia title-defending with this year's ReplicAle, a saison, the brewery-decided variable being the addition of fruit, spice, or dry-hopping. Tighthead chose to dry-hop with Hull Melon and Mandarina Bavaria. Let's do this: It pours a mostly clear golden-straw topped by a finger of off-white foam. The nose comprises sourdough, light tangelo, mild perfume, a drop or two of honey, and a touch of grass. The taste brings in more of the same, though, for me, the yeast and the hops nearly cancel each other out, leaving a relatively clean pale ale with some grassy hop notes and a sourdough-tinged finish: No special dry-hop notes, no Belgian yeast notes to speak of. Weird. The body is a light medium, with a light moderate carbonation and a fluid feel. Overall, a nice enough beer, but one whose saison character and dry-hop character don't really show up to play very often. I still generally enjoy the beer, but find it almost frustratingly plain for what it is.
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