Black Oak Summer Saison

Brewed by Black Oak Brewing
Style: Saison
Etobicoke, Canada

Pours cloudy orange with a creamy white head...aroma is wheat and yeast, hints of peach and orange. Mouthfeel is smooth and soft. Taste is, not surprisingly, wheaty and yeasty, again with peach and orange undertones. Aftertaste of orange peel and some spice. After-AFTER taste of peaches when I exhale - very nice! I’m unfamiliar with the Saison style, and the only thing I’ve had previously that remind me of this are Unibroue’s Blanche de Chambly and Ephemere. This is a very nice novelty beer, not something I could see having all too often, but still a very well made drink that goes great with hot weather! I’ve yet to be let down by this great brewer!

Delicious on Draught at VICTORY CAFE TORONTO - very soft & wheaty, fruity aroma, not too much funk or sting (easy drinking Saison), nicely assertive hop finish that is not brassy. If anything it could have less perfect balance and more aggressive character but it is a very accessible saison for those who would find the Dupont a bit overwhelmingly funky.

Partly cloudy golden body with a small white head. Perfumy aroma. Perfume makes it way to the taste too. Very perfumy indeed. Very floral too. An overall impression of drinking flowers juice. Feels like uncontrolled dry-hopping. Bready malts (white-bread dough) and faint orange skin flavour. Drinkable as a thirst quencher but as this attempt at a Belgian Saison as convincing as a Chuck Norris dramatic scene.

draft at bow and arrow. opaque orange with thin white head, it has yeasty aroma with a hint of orange. the flavor is typical of saison (vide orval), but it is quite sweet and has a stronger aftertaste of orange peel.

Fruity and spicy, coriander, light, amber. Funky taste. Pretty poor for a saison.

Cloudy gold/orange. Aroma is spices, yeast, and citrus. Flavor is spices, citrus, and some honey. Body is on the light side. A bit more alcohol would help this. Thanks to HogTownHarry for this bottle.

Pours a light orange color with a white head. Aroma is of corriander, spices, and citus. Flavor is corriander, spices and bitter orange peel.

[081-20061031] 341mL. Hoppy wheat and orange aroma. Cloudy, light brown-amber body with lots of bubbles throughout. Tastes like wheaty leaves, and something that must be coriander. Light-medium body, complex, astringent mouthfeel that’s not unpleasant. Reminiscent of Denison’s with an orange kick.