Swan City Slicker Saison
Grain Bin Brewing Company
- From:
- Grain Bin Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.75 | pDev: 0.8%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 26, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 18, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - nice play on the city of Grande Prairie's nickname, I gotta say.
This beer pours a mostly clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of random streaky lace around the glass as it evenly sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy wheat malt, further mixed cereal notes, a somewhat aggressive yeastiness, muddled pale fruit, a soft earthy peppercorn spiciness, and some rather tame musty, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, an equal to the task grainy wheatiness, edgy and slightly phenolic yeast, an almost banana chip-esque fruitiness, ethereal black and white pepper dust spice, and more well understated earthy, floral, and herbal green hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate lifting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the yeast kind of lurks about, looking to cause a ruckus, if you will. It finishes trending dry, the mixed grains and yeast parrying for lingering control.
Overall, this is a pleasant enough version of the style, with the usual suspects all accounted for, and no sign of the extra point of ABV. Easy to drink, especially if it's your thing, but for me, I don't really know why I bother - not a knock at this offering, more of a dose of self-criticism.
Sep 25, 2017This beer pours a mostly clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of random streaky lace around the glass as it evenly sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy wheat malt, further mixed cereal notes, a somewhat aggressive yeastiness, muddled pale fruit, a soft earthy peppercorn spiciness, and some rather tame musty, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, an equal to the task grainy wheatiness, edgy and slightly phenolic yeast, an almost banana chip-esque fruitiness, ethereal black and white pepper dust spice, and more well understated earthy, floral, and herbal green hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate lifting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the yeast kind of lurks about, looking to cause a ruckus, if you will. It finishes trending dry, the mixed grains and yeast parrying for lingering control.
Overall, this is a pleasant enough version of the style, with the usual suspects all accounted for, and no sign of the extra point of ABV. Easy to drink, especially if it's your thing, but for me, I don't really know why I bother - not a knock at this offering, more of a dose of self-criticism.
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