Grumpy Troll Belgian Style Saison

Brewed by Grumpy Troll Brewery, Restaurant and Pizzeria
Style: Saison
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin USA

Growler courtey of pepsican. Pours gold with a thin white head. Smells of flowers, nutty, funky, grassy, hay. Tastes dry with some mellow tartness, subdued citrus, funky with a dry finish. enjoyable and pretty true to style.

On tap at the brewpub, pours clear with an unflattering aroma. Taste is expectedly sour, really tastes like a warm chardonnay. Sour grapes, but not oversly sour overall. Ok for a saison.

Draft at the brewpub. Poured a clear gold color with a thin, limp white head. Kind of sorry looking for a saison. Not much aroma other than a touch of hay and earth. Light bodied and tart with an off-putting metallic note. There was a distinct tart fruit flavor that closely resembled lemon and overwhelmed the the subdued cereal grain and clove flavors underneath. Dry and acidic at the end. This one didn’t really come together for me.

I’m pretty glad I tried this out, I almost didn’t. Pours a golden color with a small head. The aroma is just mildly funky and largely sweet with some floral notes. Flavor is really different for a Saison; there is certainly some funky tartness that pairs well alongside the citrus flavors. This has a real sweet & sour thing happening which is pretty nice and very refreshing.

Orange pour with a small white head. Lemon zest, orange peel, and honey aroma. More lemon goodness in the flavor with a nice combination of malty sweetness and some sourness to finish it out. Tart but sweet...like sweet tarts (imagine that) Yum.

On tap at Grumpy Troll. Poured apple juice golden with zero head even when agitated. The aroma picked up lighter fruity sweetness and caramel upfront with mild spicage and sour fruit skins around.. odd and not enticing. The flavor had sour lemon and light fruit skin sourness all over with pale and honey malt sweetness behind.. not good. Sour on the palate with low carbonation.. dry at the finish.. did not flow well. Something appeared to be terribly wrong here.

(Draught, labeled Sassion) Pours a hazy yellow body with small white head. Aroma of yeast, clove, lemon, and apple. Flavor of lemon, clove, ginger, and light grass.

G.A.B.F. 2008: (Labeled as Sassion) Hazy light golden pour. The aroma has some soft yeast notes, with apple crisp and soft citrus. Soft and fluffy on the palate. The flavor has some light sweet esters/yeasty, mildly tart lemon notes as well. Fairly clean finish with just a touch of yeast. Pretty nice.