Jester King Mad Meg Farmhouse Provision Ale (Batch 1-9)
Mad Meg is simple in terms of ingredients with French pilsner malt, wheat, a touch of caramunich and acidulated malt, Czech Saaz hops and our farmhouse yeast. It is golden colored and quite strong at over 9% ABV. The palate intertwines delicate farmhouse esters with earthy, spicy hops and clean malt flavors.
3.6
227 reviews
Austin, United States
Community reviews
Serving: Bottle from State Line Liquors. Hazy dark yellow with a small white head. Yeast, coriander, a touch of white pepper, and a little funk in the nose. The tartness provides a nice balance to the light malt notes. Lemon pith, hay, and yeast flavors blend well ending with a slight spicy touch. Well made.
750, this one sat around for a while and now it was a brett bomb, it was ok just a super dry over the top brett monster, nothing else
750ml bottle from hops and pie Denver. Pours a golden yellow with an off white head. Slight citrus Belgian yeast and grass taste.
Poured from a bottle into tulip: Pours golden with a decent white head. Aroma is malty, peppery, slight citrus fruit, resin, and funk. Taste is very boozy, lots of funk, hops, and malt sweetness. There is a lot going on with this beer and the flavors aren’t playing well together. Beer gets boozier as it warms up. Medium body, medium carbonation, really harsh. Meeh.
Bottle (75 cl) from Systembolaget. Hazy golden, large white head. Earthy, peppery, boozy some faint tropical fruits. Medium bodied, medium carbonation. Dry with medium bitterness.
Bottle. Moderate malt aromas of grain and straw, lemon for the hops, barnyard for the yeast, with honey and coriander in the background. Head is average size, fizzy, white with fair lacing and is mostly diminshing. Color is muddy, light to medium amber. Flavor starts lightly sweet and moderately acidic, then finishes moderately acidic and moderately to heavily bitter. Palate is medium, watery, with a lively to fizzy carbonation and a dry finish. Nice Belgian Strong Ale with great flavor and feel.
sample @ home, thanks veliempojot!
Musty aroma with spices and soapy citrus. Flavour is rather spicy and somewhat odd with citrus and clove. Also some alcohol-like off-flavour and funky yeasty tones behind the spices. A bit too spicy to be enjoyable.
750ml bottle [batch #8]. Hazy golden colour with huge, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Mild peppery spicy, yeasty aroma, vaguely fruity background in apricot and peach direction. Taste is slightly fruity, apricot and peach again, mild peppery spicy, yeasty notes and some bitter hop are responsible for a minimally biting, otherwise soft palate with fine pored carbonation.
75 cl bottle. Batch #8.
Pours hazy pale golden color with a large head, very lively. Aroma of sourish fruits, yeast, spices, orange peel and toffee. Flavor of sweet fruits, herbs, orange, toffee, faint yeast notes and biscuits. Decent.
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750 ml bottle, batch #8. Pours a hazy golden colour with a small head. Aroma of grapefruit, grass and some herbs. Flavour of grapefruity bitterness, sweet apricot, malts and grass. Mild citrusy tartness.. Medium bodied and high-ish carbonation. Dry, citrusy, sweet finish. Good.
750ml bottle
Batch #8 MAR 2013 - Pours hazy yellow with a thick white head. Aroma of tart berries, funky yeast, grass, citrus and malts. Taste is tart, citrusy, funky yeast, grass and citrusy. Finish is smooth, slightly tart and sweetish with some notes of alcohol, funky yeast, grass and citrus. Okay, quite heavy farmyardy Belgian Strong Ale.
Bottle courtesy of Pedro. Pours a murky orange with medium white head and nice lace. Aroma is phenols, grass, citrus, hay. Medium body. There is a fairly sharp bitterness. Citrus, fruit, grass, light funk. Well carbonated.
750ml bottle thanks to Errl, pours hazy light yellow with big fluffy 3 finger head. Nose is rustic grainy spice, some funky fruit, peppery. Taste is soft funky fruit, peppery spice, fruity yeast, rustic hay. Finish is super dry spicy yeast, cereal, wheat and grain. Nice.
Reviewed from notes: pours a hazy reddish orange color with off-white head. Fruits, wheat, caramel, and some funk on the nose; follows onto the palate. Finishes funky, strong, and dry.
Bottle shared with Parksy. Brassy gold, very lively head that leaves a mess of lace. Sweet pale malts, overripe fruits, grassy, tangy hops. A bit too sweet and sticky for my tastes, so it was a lot to get through.
75 cl bottle from systembolaget. Wheaty aroma with fruity taste and sweet aftertaste.
Bottle 750 ml at home, into a tulip. Batch 8, March 2013, ABV 8.9%
Bright and sunny golden yellow colour on a light hazy body, with a tall and thick snow white head. Good retention, medium lacing left behind, nicely formed.
Aroma of clear malts and grassy hops, light wheat, floral notes.
Taste of grains, hops, nice fruity notes of peaches, pepper, flowers, quite bitter on the aftertaste. Very good, makes you reach for another sip rather quickly.
Medium thin body, good carbonation with a bite, mildly dry palate.
Overall very good, more like a saison in my book rather than Belgian ale.
Cloudy, yellow, very spicy, earthy, good malts up front on the nose. Well-rounded, lots of malt, restrained yeast character and some spice, really nice balance. Really nice beer.
Bottle - Batch 9 - Tropical fruit and grass, almost like a Tripel. Cloudy gold with a frothy white head. Fruity yeast, straw, grassy bitterness and a long finish. I can appreciate it but not my thing.
Bottle, extra in a recent trade. Shared at Jeff’s. Pours hazy gold with a medium fizzy head that fades away normally. Aroma has a lot of fruity esters and yeast with some mild berries, grass, and wood. Taste brings in some spicy noble hops to mix with wood, yeast, and fruit. Fairly sweet as well. Interesting beer to try but not something I would go back to very often.
Pours a hazy golden/light orange color with a two finger white head. Aroma has apple, yeast, malty, dry earth. Taste has a good level of bitterness, oranges, earthy malts, lemon, spicy, farmhouse funk. Well balanced and dry. Finishes malty, yeasty with a little booze. Not bad
From notes. Poured golden, with a small off-white foam. Mostly fruity nose. Orange peels, grapefruit, hay, raisins, hints of grass in the aroma. Slightly sour, almost salty. Medium, with a dry finish.
Pours a golden color with two fingers of fizzy foam. The nose is lots of rustic grain, yeasty esters and some earthy must. The palate follows the nose with lots of doughy heavy grain notes with underlying yeasty esters, traces of bitter citrus rind, grassy finish.
Bottle: Thanks, Jason! Pours an almost fully opaque orange & amber color with a slowly fading, off-white chunky head that leaves some sheety lacing behind. Aroma is full of peppery spice & phenols. Plenty of farmhouse yeast... very spicy. Some pear-like fruity esters buried deep with a bit of dirt & earthiness in the finish. Taste has a woodsy, tree-bark essence up front, followed up by heaps of dry farmhouse yeast & cotton blanket funk. Super yeast, spicy, & very woody. Like licking a barnyard wall... There’s also quite a bitter hop sting on the palate in the finish. Sharp, dry, medium carbonation. While not bad, it’s a little too over the top woodsy & spicy for my preferences overall. Still decent, but probably my least favorite Jester King beer to date.
Hefeweizen nose of banana, citrus, and clove. Cloudy straw color with a large, frothy head. Tastes sweet and bitter-spiced with a very dry finish. Flavors of bitter esters, black pepper, yellow grapefruit, and lemon. Pretty good. Very complex!
Bottle from Proof. Deep golden color pour with a rocky white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast phenols, earth, clove spices, touches of citrus acidity and dough malt. Palate is rich and slightly chewy with similar flavor as the nose. Smooth carbonation with no noticeable alcohol. Very nice.
Bottle. Hazy yellow color. The funk from the farmhouse yeast is the star here. It turned an okay beer into a great beer. I like what they’re doing at Jester King. Can’t wait for it to make it to Ohio.
(bottle - 750 ml) Cloudy gold pour with a thick white head. Lots of yeast and spice and dry funk in the aroma. Flavor is the standard saison sweetness but counterbalanced by a funky dry finish with some spicy yeast notes. Normally not a fan of this style but the funk won me over.
750ml Flasche. Ins Glas ergießt sich ein goldgelbes Bier mit sehr schöner großen Schaumkrone. Geruch malzig trocken fruchtig, würzig. Geschmack sehr malzig, intensiv würzig, belgische Hefe, leicht alkoholisch.
Syrlig og vild belgisk duft.
Uklar og meget lys.
Spicy belgisk gær og let syrlig og samtidig bitter. Kompleks.