Saison
Last Stand Brewing Company
- From:
- Last Stand Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 6.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 14, 2020
- Added:
- Jul 06, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.45/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Reviewed from notes taken at Last Stand in March 2015.
"Saison." 5.3% ABV. Spring seasonal.
Served on-draught into a tulip at Last Stand. Cost was $5 for 10 oz pour.
HEAD: None. No lacing. Has an insignificant white floater ring on its rim.
BODY: Translucent vibrant copper colour. Nontransparent but also not hazy, making it seem oddly filtered for a saison.
No yeast/lees are visible, to its detriment given the style (visible yeast would give it a more lively appearance).
Looks decent for a saison. Nontraditional but generally appealing.
AROMA: Sweeter than you'd expect, with uncharacteristically clean Belgian pale malt aromatics and honey malts alongside 2-row barley. Hints of lime, herbla hop character, and cantaloupe fruit lend it an interesting albeit strangely hop-emphatic character.
Has zero rustic farmhouse character; there's no straw, hay, vitaminy saccharomyces yeast, or brettanomyces yeast funkiness at all. Smells more like a hoppy Belgian pale than a proper farmhouse ale/saison.
There's no fruity twang, white pepper, or other spice.
Very clean and clinical. Aromatic intensity is mild.
TASTE: Shockingly hop-forward, with notes of faint lime, cantaloupe, and tangerine. I find nothing in terms of herb or spice. Oddly sweet, with clean sterile Belgian pale malts and grains of paradise rounding out out alongside generic 2-row barley sweetness.
Not the rustic straw-and-hay redolent backbone you'd find in a traditional saison. Lacks funkiness and yeastiness.
Tastes more like a Belgian pale ale - albeit a pretty good one. Very well-balanced and nicely built. Complex for a Belgian pale and somewhat subtle as well. It's a trainwreck of an attempt as a saison, but I quite like it in general (disregarding those style conventions).
Gestalt and cohesive.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, refreshing, and aptly thick (for a Belgian pale ale). This texture complements the taste well but fails to elevate the beer as a whole. Slightly overcarbonated, but not boozy, oily, harsh, scratchy, astringent, or otherwise problematic.
A proper saison would be more dry and coarse than this.
OVERALL: When regarded as a Belgian pale instead of a saison (which it definitely isn't), it's highly drinkable and very enjoyable fare. I look forward to trying more Last Stand beers, but this would receive poor marks if submitted as a saison to a strictly-by-style beer judging competition.
High B- (3.45) / WORTHY
Jul 06, 2017"Saison." 5.3% ABV. Spring seasonal.
Served on-draught into a tulip at Last Stand. Cost was $5 for 10 oz pour.
HEAD: None. No lacing. Has an insignificant white floater ring on its rim.
BODY: Translucent vibrant copper colour. Nontransparent but also not hazy, making it seem oddly filtered for a saison.
No yeast/lees are visible, to its detriment given the style (visible yeast would give it a more lively appearance).
Looks decent for a saison. Nontraditional but generally appealing.
AROMA: Sweeter than you'd expect, with uncharacteristically clean Belgian pale malt aromatics and honey malts alongside 2-row barley. Hints of lime, herbla hop character, and cantaloupe fruit lend it an interesting albeit strangely hop-emphatic character.
Has zero rustic farmhouse character; there's no straw, hay, vitaminy saccharomyces yeast, or brettanomyces yeast funkiness at all. Smells more like a hoppy Belgian pale than a proper farmhouse ale/saison.
There's no fruity twang, white pepper, or other spice.
Very clean and clinical. Aromatic intensity is mild.
TASTE: Shockingly hop-forward, with notes of faint lime, cantaloupe, and tangerine. I find nothing in terms of herb or spice. Oddly sweet, with clean sterile Belgian pale malts and grains of paradise rounding out out alongside generic 2-row barley sweetness.
Not the rustic straw-and-hay redolent backbone you'd find in a traditional saison. Lacks funkiness and yeastiness.
Tastes more like a Belgian pale ale - albeit a pretty good one. Very well-balanced and nicely built. Complex for a Belgian pale and somewhat subtle as well. It's a trainwreck of an attempt as a saison, but I quite like it in general (disregarding those style conventions).
Gestalt and cohesive.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, refreshing, and aptly thick (for a Belgian pale ale). This texture complements the taste well but fails to elevate the beer as a whole. Slightly overcarbonated, but not boozy, oily, harsh, scratchy, astringent, or otherwise problematic.
A proper saison would be more dry and coarse than this.
OVERALL: When regarded as a Belgian pale instead of a saison (which it definitely isn't), it's highly drinkable and very enjoyable fare. I look forward to trying more Last Stand beers, but this would receive poor marks if submitted as a saison to a strictly-by-style beer judging competition.
High B- (3.45) / WORTHY
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