Score
7.18
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Bottle from Tanakaya. Dark brown colour, big bubbly golden head. Aroma is touch of soy sauce, herbs, booze, roasty malt, slight floral/perfumey smell. Taste is very nice. Bit of chocolate, some savoury elements, herbs, bit plummy. Sweet and delicious.
Poured into a teku showing pitch black and about three fingers of tanned latte foam despite a light pour. The nose shows a lot of neutral brettiness (think Orval). The palate is lightly carbonated and medium bodied. Moderate flavors of clean neutral brett show through out with a strange soy sauce like finish. Nothing special but nothing to brag about.
Bottle from Tanakaya. Poured into a Duvel glass. Aromas of roasted malt, funky saison yeast, rice, grass, prune, raison and some apricot. Full-bodied and a little too heavy, but good carbonation and mouthfeel. Taste is more of the same with the roasted dark fruit and roasted malt really standing out. Some earthiness and wet hay comes out as it warms. An earthy and funky saison that is roasted as well. Nice dry and lightly bitter finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Yama-Bushi 2 Saison Noir on 08 Jun 2015 at 08:38 - Score: 8
Bottle - Perfumy, flowery and a nice herbal. Jet black with a rich beige head. Light malts, plum, fig and flowery. An odd beer for sure.
75 cl bottle. Black with a slight orange tint and a high, fine, tan head. Dry aroma of coffee, raisins, caramel, spices and a bit of root beer. Spicy, fruity flavor with dark chocolate, licorice, cookies. Bitter and dry with really quite complex flavors. Can’t taste the rice (good thing!). Great balance. Excellent stuff: light and dry, not too sweet. A great interpretation of the “Saison Noir” concept. A bit hot still, though—could use a bit of aging.