Ice Cold
The Veil Brewing Co. - Production Brewery

Expected way more. Slightly hazy, golden color with a big white head. Acidic smell with notes of grain, yeasts, and soices. Slightly tart, yeasty taste with noticeable residual sweetness.

i just recived this from tavour- the can is the same as"ice cold" with super across the label - looked at the reviews for "icecold" and they nothing what i had. this beer poured slightly hazy with small head. smell was was acidic. taste was very acidic. could only take 2 sips. says it is a wheat saison. but more like a sour seltzer . aftertaste burned the throat

16 ounce can - Hop City (West End) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Appearance: Pours a fairly clear, light golden-hued body with an initially lofty, white cap of foam.

Smell: Perfumy florals that quickly springs foward towards a tangy-scented, fresh fruitiness - tropical, citrusy and a little orchard fruit - all amidst a gently funky scent in the backdrop.

Taste: I know the can coldly professes to be 100% wheat, but it comes across as a crisp pils base, minutely grainy, with an initial pop of cereal sweetness. Bright fruitiness of lemon, lime, pear and vinous white grape. Deliciously tangy with an underlying, restrained funkiness akin to Brett-C. Amply carbonated, still with a fruity-funkiness on the semi-dry finish.

Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Moderate carbonation.

Overall: I rather liked it.

NO can date
Pours a huge foamy 3+ finger head with good retention reinforced with some streaming bubbles, soapy lacing, very clear golden blonde color

Nose grainy gristy cereal dough farmhousey malts, light floral spices and floral grassy notes, citrus esters with lemon, lemon cereal

Taste brings more cereal grain, a bit doughy, gristy, a bit bready and cracker, more grassy floral spice phenols, lemon and citrus, fruity esters, into spicy grassy hops with med bitterness, drier finish with more spicy hops and lemon zest

Mouth is med to lighter bod, high quite prickly carb

Overall lots of character, very spicy, lemony, good base malt, enjoyable saison

 

Straight pour from a 16oz can to a flared pilsner glass—AZ Wilderness’ Wilderpils glass. This has a canning date printed in black ink on the underside of the can which reads “07/05/18”, making this beer almost three months old.

Appearance (3.5): Two good fingers of crackly, bone-white foam rise eagerly off the pour, capping a slightly hazy, 24-ct. golden body before the head dies away, somewhat quickly at first before slowing down to leave a pock-marked cap and scattered, chunky clumps of lacing here and there around the glass. The lacing doesn’t last all that long, but it looks more or less like a classic saison with maybe average retention.

Smell (4.0): The nose is full of classic saison elements: dusty hay, an even mix of coriander and grains of paradise, softer notes of clove and white pepper, a bit of macerated d’anjou pear, and remnants of faded hops: grassy and yellow grapefruit zest notes mingle and blur into the spice rack. There’s some crackery, biscuit-crust-like malt, and but it’s light and crisp and just right. Nothing remarkable here, but everything is there and in its right place.

Taste (2.5): Here, it’s leaning quite a bit into the spiciness—particularly into grains of paradise—but it leaves quite a bit more in the way of medicinal, phenolic notes with a soapy aftertaste. It starts with a clean, herbal bitterness before a bright wave of coriander-white pepper spiciness, and then a fairly strong dose of crushed up acetaminophen, dissolving into a tiny drop of dish soap on the tongue. It lingers and rolls into a fading, soapy bitterness … it’s not a great effect. There’s a bit of toasted white boule crust stuffed in here, but generally speaking this is so dry and low-gravity that the phenolic character really dominates on the backside. As it warms up, it evens out a bit and feels a bit more like a classic saison, but it’s still heavy on the medicinal and soapy phenols.

Mouthfeel (3.5): Here, it’s a fairly classic, if somewhat lackluster, saison. The body is medium-weight, with light and effervescent carbonation that feels voluminous immediately upon entering, fizzling away at a quick pace and washing out with little fanfare. The body remains light, crisp, and dry as hell throughout. No sign of booze.

Overall (3.25): It’s fine. It’s pretty good, in some regards. I remember the hops standing out more when it was fresh (no surprise), but I don’t remember the phenolic edge standing out so much. Maybe best if drank fresh and without picking it apart so much.

Appearance - Pours clear golden color with decent white head that dissipates pretty quickly to a thin bubbly ring.

Aroma - Very light lemon, straw, funk, yeast.

Taste - Taste is pretty bland, not much body light lemon, very light funk, slight bitter aftertaste.

Feel - light bodied soft very easy drinking

Overall - Not really hitting all the notes I expect from a Saison, pretty bland with a bitter finish.