AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
adamjackson (274) – Canaan, USA – MAY 20, 2012
A – Holy moly. This beer is GORGEOUS! SRM of 12. Deep bright and clear golden orange. This beer is BEAUTIFUL. I had to take a photo. No head on the pour.
S – Honeysuckle, flowers, fresh cut grass and a huge orange presence. Very zesty and covers up the sorghum smell well.
T – Oranges is what you get first and there’s almost a cough syrup taste. LIke cherry cough syrup. mellow finish of sorghum and lemons.
M – 50/50 carbonation on the mouth swish. Light body and semi-dry finish.
O – This is an okay beer. The only other gluten beer I’ve head is DFH Tweasonale and this is certainly better but not fantastic. Glad I don’t have allergies that keep me from drinking other beers.
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I thought this one was awful. Tasted like Band-Aids ( a common descriptor for beer off flavors ). Did you get that at all?
I think the Band-Aid taste is a direct result of the sorghum that they have to use to make it Gluten-Free. I grew up a sorghum farmer so the smell and general presence of it is fine to me. I guess it did have that but, every Gluten-free beer I’ve had was that way. If this beer were judged alongside other regular Saisons, It wouldn’t have won the world beer cup award last year.