Hiatus
Category 12 Brewing
- From:
- Category 12 Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.12 | pDev: 30.13%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 12, 2019
- Added:
- Jun 21, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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A welcome break from the tedium of both work and weather, this beer evokes memories of Scandinavian farmhouse ales past with its dry, rustic, and earthy character.
Balanced by the refreshing brightness of fresh cucumber and lemon zest, you’ll find Hiatus is best enjoyed on a sunny day as you leave your obligations behind.
Balanced by the refreshing brightness of fresh cucumber and lemon zest, you’ll find Hiatus is best enjoyed on a sunny day as you leave your obligations behind.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.81/5 rDev +22.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +22.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473ml can - cucumbers and lemons, man, I could really go for a salad right now.
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some layered streaky lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates.
It smells of overripe cucumbers, an earthy yeastiness, cooked lemons, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a hint of black peppercorn, and some tame leafy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is cucumber peel, grainy and crackery pale malt, fading lemon zest, some ephemeral black pepper spiciness, a further dry yeasty thing, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of yeast intransigence messing with the ideal here, as such. It finishes trending dry, the cucumber still holding on in the face of the lingering malt.
Overall - well, one cannot argue that the promised goods were not brought in this case. Yep, there's bushels (?) of that green veggie flavour abounding, so much so that I feel like I don't even need to make a side salad for my pasta tonight. Good stuff.
Jul 01, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some layered streaky lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates.
It smells of overripe cucumbers, an earthy yeastiness, cooked lemons, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a hint of black peppercorn, and some tame leafy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is cucumber peel, grainy and crackery pale malt, fading lemon zest, some ephemeral black pepper spiciness, a further dry yeasty thing, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of yeast intransigence messing with the ideal here, as such. It finishes trending dry, the cucumber still holding on in the face of the lingering malt.
Overall - well, one cannot argue that the promised goods were not brought in this case. Yep, there's bushels (?) of that green veggie flavour abounding, so much so that I feel like I don't even need to make a side salad for my pasta tonight. Good stuff.
Reviewed by polloenfuego from Canada (NB)
3.04/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.04/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Look is straw gold with a bit of haze/cloudiness and a huge fluffy white head. Some lacing, but it is not great. The aroma is a cross between cucumber and wet hay. The taste is heavy on the cucumber, almost overpoweringly so. I did get some wet hay, a touch of coriander and perhaps a little lime as well, but the cucumber is too much. The feel is okay with medium carbonation and a light body.
I don't know where the hell this beer went sideways, but it did. I know that some folks like a bit of a cucumber taste to their beer occasionally, but this is over the top. Not good kids, not good.
Sep 23, 2017I don't know where the hell this beer went sideways, but it did. I know that some folks like a bit of a cucumber taste to their beer occasionally, but this is over the top. Not good kids, not good.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.79/5 rDev +21.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +21.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Category 12 Brewing 'Hiatus' @ 5.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear light gold in the glass with a small white head leaving a spotty lace along the goblet
S-hints of lemon
T-a lite saison with lemon and cucumber
MF-ok carbonation , light/medium body
Ov-mellow & lite cucumber saison
prost LampertLand
Jul 31, 2017A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear light gold in the glass with a small white head leaving a spotty lace along the goblet
S-hints of lemon
T-a lite saison with lemon and cucumber
MF-ok carbonation , light/medium body
Ov-mellow & lite cucumber saison
prost LampertLand
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