Mother Bear
Norway Brewing Company
- From:
- Norway Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 7.9%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 2.95%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 12, 2022
- Added:
- Feb 23, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by kalsarikannit from Massachusetts
3.84/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
500 ml bottle.
Appearance is a rich, dark mahogany color, deeper than a red ale. Thin, fine-bubbled head around the edge of the glass.
Smell is funky forward, with vanilla, oak, and blueberries.
Taste is very funky (a product of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast)? Vanilla forward, blueberries in the back, slight lemon aftertaste. Truth be told slightly medicinal, though not much different from many other farmhouse saisons.
Feel is a little thin, slightly astringent.
Overall not bad at all, though I was hoping for a little more blueberry and less funk.
UPDATE AND EDIT:
The beer is *much* better slightly warmer (actually less cool). The bottle recommends drinking at 40°. It’s now about 55°, and I like it MUCH better!
The funkiness is now subdued, and the slightly medicinal taste gone. It’s much more complex, richer but also livelier at the same time, with more blueberry notes forward (though not at all sweet, still definitely farmhouse saison; it’s complex, like a wine or cuvée). It now tastes exotic and special.
Ignore the ‘serve at 40°’. I change my assessment from ‘not bad at all’ to ‘excellent.’
What a difference a few degrees of temperature makes.
Aug 12, 2022Appearance is a rich, dark mahogany color, deeper than a red ale. Thin, fine-bubbled head around the edge of the glass.
Smell is funky forward, with vanilla, oak, and blueberries.
Taste is very funky (a product of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast)? Vanilla forward, blueberries in the back, slight lemon aftertaste. Truth be told slightly medicinal, though not much different from many other farmhouse saisons.
Feel is a little thin, slightly astringent.
Overall not bad at all, though I was hoping for a little more blueberry and less funk.
UPDATE AND EDIT:
The beer is *much* better slightly warmer (actually less cool). The bottle recommends drinking at 40°. It’s now about 55°, and I like it MUCH better!
The funkiness is now subdued, and the slightly medicinal taste gone. It’s much more complex, richer but also livelier at the same time, with more blueberry notes forward (though not at all sweet, still definitely farmhouse saison; it’s complex, like a wine or cuvée). It now tastes exotic and special.
Ignore the ‘serve at 40°’. I change my assessment from ‘not bad at all’ to ‘excellent.’
What a difference a few degrees of temperature makes.
Reviewed by ScaryEd from New Hampshire
3.62/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
500 ml bottle into a tulip glass.
Pours a deep mahogany color with a finger of pinkish off-white head. No lacing and minimal retention as expected. Such a cool color.
The aroma is extremely funky, like James Brown funky. Lots of fresh blueberries, lemon, hay, and vanilla.
The flavor brings lots of blueberry and vanilla, as well as some oak chips and yeast. Very funky and earthy.
The feel is medium bodied with good carbonation. Smooth and dry with some slight booziness.
Overall, a pretty good farmhouse ale. It's pretty much the same as Little Bear, with a bit more funk and vanilla sweetness.
Feb 23, 2021Pours a deep mahogany color with a finger of pinkish off-white head. No lacing and minimal retention as expected. Such a cool color.
The aroma is extremely funky, like James Brown funky. Lots of fresh blueberries, lemon, hay, and vanilla.
The flavor brings lots of blueberry and vanilla, as well as some oak chips and yeast. Very funky and earthy.
The feel is medium bodied with good carbonation. Smooth and dry with some slight booziness.
Overall, a pretty good farmhouse ale. It's pretty much the same as Little Bear, with a bit more funk and vanilla sweetness.
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