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cloudy off yellow grain color w/ a flufy white head & nice lacing. Avg but delicate palate. Aroma is pretty delicate some notes of hay and a yeasty bread like note, quite light. Flavor is bananna & bread dough some light spices lemon zest a fairly dry fininsh. Quite nice.

Pale yellow clear color (the result of a careful pour.) Aromas of citrus and hay. With the same citrus and crisp spiciness on the finish. Excellent.

a bit like opening a bottle of champaigne and just as bubbly. Tastes smooth and dry with little to no aftertaste. A much better Saison that the south hampton in my opinion.

Draught @ Den Tatoverede Enke, Copenhagen. Pours a hazy golden colour with a longlasting white head. Sweet malty yeasty aroma with some soicy hints and hints of citrus. Sweet malty yeasty and spicy flavor. Slightly bitter malty and yeasty finish with some citrus hints.

Draft: at Brouwers. Dec 30 ’06

Hazy straw amber with a modest white head and lovely lacing. This beer has a splendid aroma of lemon, barnyard dust, and a hint of vinegarly lambic. The flavor is stunning: lemon and lovely - nay, perfect - bitter hops, more barnyard, a hint of sunflower seed, and warm sweet malts through the middle. The mouthfeel is full and rich without either the heat or the thickness one might attribute to a 9.5% beer; as a result, this one is packed beyond compare with flavor but remains refreshing nonetheless and despite its high alcohol content.

After 600+ ratings, this is the best beer I’ve ever tasted. My new top-rated beer by two points.

Revisit on tap, Feb 18 ’07.

Indeed, after my encounter with the bottled version (described below) I began to wonder if the rating above resulted from one of those fortuitious moments where the beer and the mood and palate and the setting all align in perfect synchrony to raise a very good beer to beyond excellent in the moment.

So the next day, I tried this again on tap, again at Brouwers. The previous 4.7 was no fluke; that beyond-perfect mouthfeel was back, the beer was everything I had experienced the first time, and it was fully deserving of its position alone at the top of my list.

Bottle: 750 ml, 2006 bottling tasted Feb 17 ’07.

From the bottle, this is a somewhat different beer. It’s very good, still, but it doesn’t compare with the mind-blowingly good beer that I tasted on tap. Much of the loss is in the mouthfeel. The bottled version features a coarser head; it is harsher and lacks the smooth creamy fullness of the tap, substituting instead a more oily mouthfeel and more overt 9.5% alcohol. I probably would have rated this about a 4.2 if I was tasting it for the first time. The take-home lesson is that if you haven’t had this one on tap, you haven’t had the full experience of what it can be.

Bottle. Good malty aroma with yeast notes. Fruity. Thick monster frothy white head like whipped cream. Golden yellow color. Well carbonated but not overly dry. Creamy mouthfeel. Solid malt, hop, and yeast flavors. Very well balanced with a lightly bitter finish. A good stronger cousin of the Vieille Provision which is also very good.

draft - A rather nice saison. Well balanced and tasty. A nice rich golden color, and the bar even had proper glassware. Good

pours cloudy gold with a large fizzy white head. aromas of vanilla, marshmallows, and sweet creamed corn. flavor has a lot of the creamed corn notes with some sugar and honey. very nice.