Blood Orange Saison
Banded Peak Brewing Co.
- From:
- Banded Peak Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Specialty Saison
- ABV:
- 7.7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 04, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 04, 2018
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - it just sez 'BOS' on the receipt, which took a few turns in my mind before I remembered what this thing actually was. An 'Imperial Blood Orange Saison', apparently.
This beer pours a hazy, medium apricot amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy off-white head, which leaves some random splattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly sinks out of sight.
It smells of semi-sweet, exotic orange flesh, grainy and crackery cereal malt, a further edgy wheatiness, some mild black peppercorn notes, hints of estery yeastiness, and some very mild earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, wet Wheat Thins, muddled citrus pith, slightly phenolic yeast, some fading peppery spice, a suggestion of alcohol ingress, and more well-understated musty, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, but with that yeast, spice, and boozy troika meandering about, your mileage may indeed vary here. It finishes off-dry, the sexy tropical fruity essences (blood orange, maybe, but more like some of its typical friends) lingering, con brio.
Overall - this comes across as a generally well-rendered, fruited-up version of the base style; however, the elevated alcohol could use a few lessons in terms of its manners, as it were. Worth trying, but perhaps in a smaller serving size.
Jun 04, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium apricot amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy off-white head, which leaves some random splattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly sinks out of sight.
It smells of semi-sweet, exotic orange flesh, grainy and crackery cereal malt, a further edgy wheatiness, some mild black peppercorn notes, hints of estery yeastiness, and some very mild earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, wet Wheat Thins, muddled citrus pith, slightly phenolic yeast, some fading peppery spice, a suggestion of alcohol ingress, and more well-understated musty, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, but with that yeast, spice, and boozy troika meandering about, your mileage may indeed vary here. It finishes off-dry, the sexy tropical fruity essences (blood orange, maybe, but more like some of its typical friends) lingering, con brio.
Overall - this comes across as a generally well-rendered, fruited-up version of the base style; however, the elevated alcohol could use a few lessons in terms of its manners, as it were. Worth trying, but perhaps in a smaller serving size.
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