Uncommon Saison
Situation Brewing
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80
Good
80
Good
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store. A collaboration brew with The Common, a downtown Edmonton, beer-friendly 'gastro-lounge'.
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent cobweb lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a lesser biscuity wheatiness, muted lemon rind, a further muddled tropical fruitiness, faint estery yeast, and some plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready pale malt, wheaty breakfast cereal, watered-down lemon juice, underripe banana flesh, a gently spicy yeastiness, ethereal black peppercorns, and more understated earthy, musty, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the hops and yeast exact a minor tithe at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt and wan fruity notes keeping up lingering appearances.
Overall - this is indeed a 'hoppy Saison', but not to any large degree. Definitely hoppier than the norm for the style, and somewhat refreshing. Not something that I would soon return to, but it's made well enough that I'm sure it will have its share of hipster patio fans this coming summer.
Apr 19, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent cobweb lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a lesser biscuity wheatiness, muted lemon rind, a further muddled tropical fruitiness, faint estery yeast, and some plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready pale malt, wheaty breakfast cereal, watered-down lemon juice, underripe banana flesh, a gently spicy yeastiness, ethereal black peppercorns, and more understated earthy, musty, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the hops and yeast exact a minor tithe at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt and wan fruity notes keeping up lingering appearances.
Overall - this is indeed a 'hoppy Saison', but not to any large degree. Definitely hoppier than the norm for the style, and somewhat refreshing. Not something that I would soon return to, but it's made well enough that I'm sure it will have its share of hipster patio fans this coming summer.
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