Sierra Nevada Brown Saison

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: Saison
Chico, California USA

From tap at Breakwater. Pours dark brown, golden and with a small white head. Roasted malt and spiced saison yeasty aroma. Sweet and fruity flavoured. Spiced and yeasty finish.

On tap at Toronado, San Diego. Medium brown in color with no lasting head, the aroma was a bit more nutty than your typical all spice saison.

On tap at Beachwood BBQ. Clear brown pour. Aroma is sweet almost fruity caramel. Flavor is coriander and spice, hops, bready yeast.

On tap at Beachwood BBQ. Pours with a small, bone colored head over a hazed brown body. Good retention. Aroma of some alcohol, bread, spice, wheat, banana esters, light berries and nuts. Taste is dry with wheat, spice, light roast and candi sugar. Fizzy and dry mouthfeel.

(Draught) Pours a clear deep amber body with a medium creamy beige head. Aroma of caramel, banana, and herbs. Flavor of caramel, banana, caramel, raisins, light citrus, some candy, and spices.

Pour is a dark tea like brown with a big tan head. Aroma is has some sweet malts with a bit of the saison funk showing up. Flavor is a bit of fruit with some earthyness and more funk shows up at the end of the glass that it did at the begining. This is a decent offering and if i saw this in bottles i would deffinatly pick up a few 6 packs. I think the look of the beer may throw off a few ratings. It does not look like something that should taste like this.

Imperial draft served on tap at Binnys South Loop (Chicago, IL). Pours a brownish dark amber, almost mohagany, light haze, small offwhite head that dies to a film, clings. Aromas have faint belgian yeastiness that seems a bit muttled down, toffee and brown sugar come in a bit touch of dark fruits. Light barnyard funk underneath. Initial takes on a decent belgian feel that is muttled down, yeast and light barnyard, taken over by toffee, caramel, and vanilla with a touch of paint thinner shocker of boozines at the end. Creamy mouthfeel, touch bitter and a bit of a bland finish. It is almost as if the darker malts rob this beer of it’s personality, humping it into the mediocre bucket and letting it off easy at the end of the night. Creative, but not a great overall effort by SN. Not awful, but I had hoped for better.

On tap @ Maproom. Pours brown with a white head. Had the usual saison aroma. Spicy yeast in the flavor (and aroma) with some fruit in there as well. Decent brew though.