Beers – 2014 to 31/12/2017
Boatrocker – Saison du Bateau Farmhouse Ale, 2017, 6.4ABV, 330ml bottle.
Drank on 15/12/2017, from I.B.S.
Appearance: 2.5 – Light amber, nice head on pour, light lacing.
Smell/Aroma: 2.5 – Slight bready, yeasty, dry, steely.
Taste: 2.5 – Bready malts, slightly sweet, white wine, good saison yeasty character, spice, slightly fruity.
Mouthfeel/Palate: 2 – Rounded, rather full, still a nice fizz.
Overall: 3 – This is a nice saison, on the easier end of saisons.
La Sirene – Saison. Nice very funky smell on opening, cloudy, theres a fair bit of yeast floating around in this, its bottle conditioned. Lemony on the first sip, then a yeasty spice typical of a Saison. Kinda dry finish, a little wine-like. The nice lemony taste grows. This is good.
Brasserie de Saint-Sylvestre – 3 Monts Bière de Flandre. Ok, this is a Bière de Garde (“beer for keeping”), its clear, looks like a lager, smells like a lager, its not a lager and its 8.5%. I have no idea about the age of this bottle or the condition its been kept in (was in a fridge when I purchased it) . There is a light malt flavour in there, a little woodyness (looks like this was fermented in wood barrels from online notes?) and some wine, though its rather obscured by the alcohol taste and the yeast until it warms up. This does need to warm up to show more than the alcohol/yeast. The yeast has a saison character, peppery etc. Its not a bad beer, but seems like a Saison with too much alcohol present and less carbonation and anything else is rather hidden, probably not kept well?. One glass is more than enough.
Oscar Blues – Ten Fidy. Imperial Stout. My god this is a dense and thick as hell head, it is dark brown as hell. 10.5% and malty, burnt, dark malt, burnt sugar, all kinds of dark, rich, thick, viscous. I dont get any coffee, or molasses, just malt. There is a hoppyness in there, you can kinda sense it, 98IBU. This is good. Damn good.
Boston Brewing – Nut Brown Ale. Ok, I drank this the other day, but didn’t review at the time and for some reason thought it was worth getting again to do so…must have been the next beer I’m about to drink, but this is good, this is not bad and no hate. This is a nut brown ale, simple and this does it. Its got good malt, a nice mineral character, the hops are subdued…its good. This is good, worth drinking again regardless.
Fox Hat Brewing – Phat Mongrel. A Oatmeal Stout. Ok as I said above/below I got a few beers I didnt review and maybe this was the one I wanted to. This is nice, its good, its almost viscous enough to say oatmeal, but yeah its also OK. roasty, very easy. Lovely malt smell, cant detect hops unless its in the aftertaste. This isnt bad, its good, but no stand out.
Mornington Peninsula Brewing – Dogs Bollocks Nitro English Special Bitter
Boatrocker Brewery – Saison du Bateau
4 Pines – Keller Door: Double Cascadian Dark Ale
Cheeky Monkey – Silver Back Russian Imperial Stout
All good beers, the standout was the Nitro carbonated ESB. Really, really great carbonation.
Feral Brewing Brewpub series – Ace of Base Imperial India Saison
Made with Sorachi hops, which I love – Their Golden Ace Belgian Pale Ale, which used Sorachi, was one of the first beers to really turn me on to Hops [ the others being Sierra Nevadas Torpedo and Little Creatures Pale Ale]
This is…Its definitely a Saison, just amped up a fair bit. Smells fruity-yeasty, peppery, crushed ants, a bit of citrus…Its a cloudy, light yellow colour, Big head on pouring and zero to minimal lacing. A light fizz for carbonation.
The taste, again peppery, strong saison yeast character, not much of the citrusy-lemony Sorachi I love, but its in there at a low level, and it definitely comes through in the hops bitterness.
This reminds me a lot of the first Saison I tried to make, looks like I didnt fuck up at all if this is a saleable beer 😛 haha.
Its NOT BAD, but I really wish it was closer to the classic Golden Ace, what a great beer that was. If you like Saisons, this will give you more Saison in one bottle than you may have ever wanted.
Thanks to the guys at International Beer Shop for keeping a 4 pack aside for me.
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Big Sky – Moose Drool
Colonial – Kolsch
Saison DuPont
Brouwerij De Ranke – Saison De Dottignies
New Belgium – Fat Tire Amber Ale
Gage Roads – Backyard Brew Saison
