From Maine With Love #17
Allagash Brewing Company
- From:
- Allagash Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 7.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 04, 2023
- Added:
- Jun 29, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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Dry-hopped Saison Ale
Drinkable. Crisp. Downright tasty. To marry robust flavor with refreshment, we brewed this table beer and hopped it with El Dorado and Calypso. We then fermented it with a French saison yeast strain, creating a light, dry ale that pops with notes of passion fruit, pineapple and lemongrass.
Drinkable. Crisp. Downright tasty. To marry robust flavor with refreshment, we brewed this table beer and hopped it with El Dorado and Calypso. We then fermented it with a French saison yeast strain, creating a light, dry ale that pops with notes of passion fruit, pineapple and lemongrass.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by SLeffler27 from New York
3.73/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Pours pale greenish yellow with a foggy haze and fine random bubbles throughout. A fine froth briefly holds two inches before gradually settling to a thick blanket and leaving a webbing of patchy lace on a DDX X North Drinkware thick lines pint glass. Adding yeast late brings a milkiness that obscures the stylized mountain at the bottom of the glass.
The aroma opens with faint lemon grass and farmhouse funk. Yeasty bread dough follow with hay loft. Adding the yeast elevates the funkiness and brings out fermented orchard fruit.
This is very bitter, with light sweetness that builds after the initial sip. Lemon pith and pine resin fill the middle. The finish has a modest astringency similar to an IPA. The added yeast muddies and detracts from the flavors.
It is very dry with a high mineral content. The alcohol is absent, and the carbonation is light to modest. It has a cotton texture and light body.
As a dry, thirst-quenching Saison, this does work well. However, the aroma and flavors are below my expectation of the style. The hop additions overpower the potential for subtlety which may exist within. This said, I did enjoy it on a mild and sunny late October afternoon.
Mar 04, 2023The aroma opens with faint lemon grass and farmhouse funk. Yeasty bread dough follow with hay loft. Adding the yeast elevates the funkiness and brings out fermented orchard fruit.
This is very bitter, with light sweetness that builds after the initial sip. Lemon pith and pine resin fill the middle. The finish has a modest astringency similar to an IPA. The added yeast muddies and detracts from the flavors.
It is very dry with a high mineral content. The alcohol is absent, and the carbonation is light to modest. It has a cotton texture and light body.
As a dry, thirst-quenching Saison, this does work well. However, the aroma and flavors are below my expectation of the style. The hop additions overpower the potential for subtlety which may exist within. This said, I did enjoy it on a mild and sunny late October afternoon.
Reviewed by Alieniloquium from Florida
3.58/5 rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
16 oz. can. Very pale yellow. Smells of strong yeast esters, a little grape, and herbals. Taste is mostly yeast, light minerality, a bit of grape fruitiness, lightly herbal finish. Light, dry, well carbonated. Pleasant and simple.
Aug 20, 2022
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