Southern Tier Cherry Saison

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bomber pours opaque sandy – gold with copper hues and short lived white head. The aroma is the expected sweet cherry notes as well as some yeasty spices, grains, hay, a slight herbal note or two and some floral hops. The taste is pretty crisp starting with a brief sweet pulse of sweet cherries and sweet malts. Those notes are run over by a cherry skin like tannin tartness, spicy yeast, a touch of bubble gum and a sense of beat sugar. Mild tartness and cherry extract take this into the finish.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottled@Oliver Twist, Stockholm (Imperial Cherry Saison). Aroma is earthcellar, cherrypips and some hops and caramel. Flavour is mild cherries, some earth, barnyard and mild yeasty notes. Good Saison.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

this is one of those beers that i'd buy a lot more often if it wasnn't hard to get (in Reno/Cali) and cheaper. big woodsie slightly sour oak and cherry aroma. nice feel, with some spicy zest to the flavor, with more of a sweet cherry presence than sour. nothing artificial tasting at all. a nice beer, just not quite worth the premium price.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Oct. 2009 - Not as bad as some notice as the cherry flavor was somewhat subdued. The underlying saison was not horrible. The cherry flavoring, while not overwhelming, was kinda artificial in taste. Good, but no need to seek out, really.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Nice clear light amber pour with a fluffy white head and ample lacing. Great carbonation. Sweet, bready, Belgianesque aromas with a hint of the advertised cherries but not overwhelming. Taste is slightly tart and sweet with again just a hint of the cherries. Very earthy and bubbly. Refreshing.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Light golden color, crystal clear with a fluffy white head and thick lacing. Fruity aroma with some tart cherry notes and a touch of noble hops. Quenching and mildly tart, lighter in body. Nice warm weather drinker. Straw and dry wheat flavors coupled by some mild funk and fermented cherry. A touch woody and dry.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Southern Tier's beers are becoming quite popular in Canada. This one is no exception. A cloudy red beer with a thin head, the aroma is musky cherries and the flavour was fairly tart.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

April 23, 2009
Smokeless Joe’s (Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 125 John Street)
650ml bottle
8.00% ABV
Bottled On: Unknown
$27.95
The beer poured a clear golden-red colour with a thin white head, and some sediment floating around. The aroma was earthy, with some malt, and sour cherry to go along as well. The mouthfeel was medium bodied, with medium to high carbonation going on. The taste was earth, mud, some malt, and a little sour cherry. Not very good.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 5

This sounded good and looked good but that is where things went wrong The aroma was not of cherries but fruit and alcohol. too much of each. The taste was just bad. Not like the beer was bad but just a poor combonation of flavors that just didn't work well together. Unfortunatly this became a drain pour.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

22oz bottle, pour was amber, some haze, nice initial head, very good lacing. That's where the goodness ended. Aroma was straw, caramel, cherry, no spices noted. The flavor was a disaster, sickly malty caramel type flavors, not quite sticky or even overly sweet, but just overly malty, combing with the cherry "syrup" flavor (very artificial) to create a train wreck. Spicing if any was lost, a slight grassy off funk was there to represent somewhat of a farmhouse funk, but this was like bad cough syrup. I normally dig what ST does, but this one is down there as the worst I've had from them. Sorry, ST, a bombo, and I couldn't finish all 22oz by myself!