Obsession
The Tin Whistle Brewing Company
- From:
- The Tin Whistle Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Saison
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 0%
- Reviews:
- 1
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 26, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 25, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.67/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - a 'Hibiscus Saison'. Now on to the obsessing part of the show.
This beer pours a clear, medium reddish amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly pale pink head, which leaves some boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of mixed red berry fruitiness, bready and doughy cereal malt, some estery dark florals, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and some very, very tame leafy, weedy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, wet wheat crackers, muddled dark fruity notes, crushed hibiscus flowers, mildly funky yeast, a hint of black pepper dust, and some still rather underwhelming earthy, musty, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is rather active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of dirty yeast maybe not playing nicely with the other children here. It finishes trending dry, the malt wavering, while the floral and yeasty essences keep it between the ditches.
Overall - this is an agreeable enough version of the style, with the hibiscus doing well to represent its cause, while not outstaying its welcome. Simple, and easy to put back, given that there is no sign of the extra point of ABV. Patio-worthy, IMHO.
Jun 26, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium reddish amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly pale pink head, which leaves some boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of mixed red berry fruitiness, bready and doughy cereal malt, some estery dark florals, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and some very, very tame leafy, weedy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, wet wheat crackers, muddled dark fruity notes, crushed hibiscus flowers, mildly funky yeast, a hint of black pepper dust, and some still rather underwhelming earthy, musty, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is rather active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of dirty yeast maybe not playing nicely with the other children here. It finishes trending dry, the malt wavering, while the floral and yeasty essences keep it between the ditches.
Overall - this is an agreeable enough version of the style, with the hibiscus doing well to represent its cause, while not outstaying its welcome. Simple, and easy to put back, given that there is no sign of the extra point of ABV. Patio-worthy, IMHO.
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