Saison de Non-Denomination
Is/Was Brewing
- From:
- Is/Was Brewing
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.24 | pDev: 4.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 23, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 02, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Saison de Non-Denomination is a collaboration with our friends at Beer on the Wall. It is a rye saison base that we spiced with some traditional Belgian holiday beer spices including clove, allspice, crystalized ginger, mace, cardamom, and cinnamon. The resulting beer is a beautifully complex beer with notes of ginger snaps, mulled cider, tanned leather, oranges adorned with cloves, and a dry but lingering finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by snaotheus from Washington
3.16/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.16/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
2023-01-08
375ml bottle served in a curvy Fremont glass. If there's a date, I don't see it. Sent to me by @FBarber.
Pours a mostly clear burnt orange / amber color with a fairly small soapy head, and a moderate to light amount of carbonation. Smell is SPICED. Nutmeg, maybe cinnamon, maybe allspice.
Taste is also spiced. Makes me think a lot of hot apple cider (maybe it was mulled? there's actually a specific example in my head, apple cider heated up in a crock pot with spices in it), in terms of the flavor profile. Mild sweetness, mild tartness (like a sour apple kind of tart). There's a mild bitterness.
Mouthfeel is thin and gritty, like the spice is a kind of sand in the beer. Overall...This is not a great beer, but it's not terrible. A bit of a puzzler. It's barely beery at all, it's dominated by the spice profile, which usually drives me nuts. But it has a reasonable approximation of mulled apple cider, and isn't terrible in that light.
I guess I'd consider this a novelty beer. I don't think I could imagine anyone loving it so much they'd want to buy it over and over again, but it's worth trying.
Jan 09, 2023375ml bottle served in a curvy Fremont glass. If there's a date, I don't see it. Sent to me by @FBarber.
Pours a mostly clear burnt orange / amber color with a fairly small soapy head, and a moderate to light amount of carbonation. Smell is SPICED. Nutmeg, maybe cinnamon, maybe allspice.
Taste is also spiced. Makes me think a lot of hot apple cider (maybe it was mulled? there's actually a specific example in my head, apple cider heated up in a crock pot with spices in it), in terms of the flavor profile. Mild sweetness, mild tartness (like a sour apple kind of tart). There's a mild bitterness.
Mouthfeel is thin and gritty, like the spice is a kind of sand in the beer. Overall...This is not a great beer, but it's not terrible. A bit of a puzzler. It's barely beery at all, it's dominated by the spice profile, which usually drives me nuts. But it has a reasonable approximation of mulled apple cider, and isn't terrible in that light.
I guess I'd consider this a novelty beer. I don't think I could imagine anyone loving it so much they'd want to buy it over and over again, but it's worth trying.
Reviewed by FBarber from Illinois
3.11/5 rDev -4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.11/5 rDev -4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Pours a cloudy, but not opaque burnished orange color. Thin, spritzy off-white head.
Aroma is dominated by spices - loads of ginger, allspice, clove, and cinnamon. The ginger is strong enough to lightly sting the nose.
Taste follows the nose with that ginger dominating the palate along with some allspice, clove, a touch of lemon, orange and general tart citrus. Finish is dry and spicy.
Feel is light to medium bodied. Sprightly carbonation. Dry finish.
Overall this a rare miss for me from Is/Was. I usually love their saison's but this one just goes way too hard with the ginger.
Jan 02, 2023Aroma is dominated by spices - loads of ginger, allspice, clove, and cinnamon. The ginger is strong enough to lightly sting the nose.
Taste follows the nose with that ginger dominating the palate along with some allspice, clove, a touch of lemon, orange and general tart citrus. Finish is dry and spicy.
Feel is light to medium bodied. Sprightly carbonation. Dry finish.
Overall this a rare miss for me from Is/Was. I usually love their saison's but this one just goes way too hard with the ginger.
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