Pretty Things Field Mouse's Farewell

Welcome to our Field Mouse’s Farewell. It’s a late spring seasonal beer: French, rustic, 7%, full of different grains: Rye, Oats, Wheat and Barley. Like what a mouse would eat. The hops are Strisselspalt from Alsace, and Bramling Cross from England, and we combined Belgian and English yeast strains. Oldy woldy worldy.

3.5

210 reviews

Cambridge, United States

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2.9 Pours copper orange with an off white head. The aroma caramel, French saison yeast, phenolic spice and light banana. It has a medium/light body with some roughness with frothy sharp carbonation. The taste is metallic, mineral heavy, mild sweetness, mild American saison and astringency. Finish is very astringent. Not really for me.

3.4 Pour is a hazy red with a large white head. Aroma is a nice mix of some berry fruity and spicy rye. I also get a bit of pepper and maybe a touch of honey. Flavor is again a berry with the rye malt showing up the most. Very heavy mouth feel for a saison. Finish is more like eating a baked pie crust without the pie filling. This beer was all over the place with the flavors which made for a unusual saison. The sum of all those parts worked though because this was still a flavorful beer.

2.9 Tried at the Festival. Amber appearance with medium sized off white head. Notes are predominantly plum sugar, bread, and other sweet malting. Didn’t get any hops in this one, mostly boring English stuff.

3.5 Aroma is caramel, liqueur, mild spices and a hint of sweetness. The flavor is caramel/caramel liqueur, Belgian yeast, mild fruit and and a malty/very slightly alcohol finish.

4.2 22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 8/2015. Pours slightly hazy orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lemon, orange, pear, apple, light banana, pepper, clove, wheat, toasted oats, spicy rye bread, wood, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and bready malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, pear, apple, light banana, pepper, clove, wheat, toasted oats, spicy rye bread, wood, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Moderate amount of earthy bitterness and yeast/rye spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, orange, pear, apple, light banana, pepper, clove, wheat, toasted oats, spicy rye bread, wood, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness/spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Moderate amount of dryness after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, fairly crisp/sticky, and lightly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is an awesome and unique saison style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, earthy hops, and bready malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A highly enjoyable offering.

3.6 Draft. Unclear deep amber. Sticky off white head. Banana. Bubblegum. Peppery. Dry. Mild earthy bitter. Different than the usual ’American saisons’ I’ve had lately. Solid beer but not quite my thing.

3.5 Bottle. Amber color. Aroma: slightly sweet, malty and bready. Taste: fruity, a mixture of malts, bread crust, a little spicy and herbal.

3.4 Bottle a golden yellow colored beer with a white head aroma malts spicy fruits citrus oranges yeast and hops flavor malts citrus oranges fruits spicy yeast and hops

3.2 Bottle. Pours in hazy copper body with almost no head. Aroma has belgian yeast character, floral, herbal. Light caramel sweetness. Taste has high malty sweetness, oily body texture, in the background high earthy bitteress. Yeasty after taste. Pine bitterness. Body is full, carbonation is pretty high.

4.1 Bottle. Pours redish amber. Aroma of strawberries and dark fruits. Quite heavy, taste of dark fruits, grapes and some wooden notes. medium bitterness

3.9 Bottle Pours Brown red with off withe head. Aroma of sweet fruits, caramel oat. Full body, rich taste, orange and red grapefruit Low carbonation.

3.4 Bottle, 650 ml from Svijet Piva, Zagreb. Shared with Miro and Kova. Pours cloudy yellow with white head. Yeasty, malty, spicy, light fruitiness. On the sweet side.

3.4 Pours cloudy yellowish brown with a brief white head. Aroma is of yeast, toffee and some citrus. Medium body with a fizzy carbonated bite. Taste is of oats, banana, citrus, honey and cloves. Finishes with a bitter rye taste. A creative composition of grains but not really my style.

3.3 Bottle. Poured a hazy golden color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate citrus, spice and yeast aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium sweet citrus flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectation where met.

3.0 22 oz. bottle shared by Tmoney99. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small off white head. The aroma and flavor have sweet malts, caramel, fruits, Belgian yeast, light spice, pretty one dimensional, for a saison this is missing the funky, grassy, character and is too sweet.

2.6 22oz bottle, thanks to tmoney99 for sharing. Kind of hazy orange color. Off-white bubble head, some decent bits of lace. Caramel malt up front, some orange citrus, mild spice. A touch of rye in there. More sweet taste, much sweeter than I’d like for a saison. Light to moderate bitter. Kind of zesty. Mild tanginess. A bit musty overall, slight metallic. Doesn’t taste fresh, maybe? But it’s bottled August 2014, not that old. Medium to bigger body. kind of slick. Light carbonation. I wanted to like this one, but I did not. Didn’t finish my sample. Would have hated to have been stuck with the whole bottle.

3.4 Bottle shared by Tmoney99 pour hazy dark orange with minimal white head. Nose light spice, some fruit, and light dank some sweet malt. Taste starts with sweet and saison but quickly transition to grainy malt. Minimal spice on the finish. Not as sweet or spicy as most saison.

3.2 Bottle at Au Trappiste, Bern Hazy golden color, small head. Sweet aroma, some vegetable soup too in it, celery. Good body strength, dry mouthfeel, the malt is not expressive, but it has enough spice character; strong bitterness; it still has traces of vegetables in the final. Not fully convincing.

3.1 from Au Trappiste - hazy blond-orange beer with a modest foam left; light funky aroma of oranges; a bit cheesy; full-bodied, subtle yet fair carbonation, quite sourish; light residual swetness; aftertaste of blood oranges and almost metallic (I should have trusted fiulin from the beginning on...)

3.8 Bottle. Pours murky amber with a small, creamy, off-white film head. Aroma has sweet malts,, light caramel, leaves, soft pepper. Medium carbonation, fine dry and light creamy mouthfeel. Flavour has fine malts, light doughy, grassy hops, caramel. Fine bitterness. Elegant.

3.6 Bottle from Mikkeller webshop. Fruity smell with some light malts. Sweet and fruity taste.

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3.4 Bottled 650ml. -from Svijet Piva Zagreb. Orange/golden coloured, small to medium sized white to off-white head, dusty fruity nose. Sweet malty, fruity (oranges dominates), yeasty and light alcoholic with notes of over ripe fruits. Mild spicy touch in the finish.

2.9 Bottle from Table & Vine. Hazy caramel color with ring and lace. Mild grainy grassy spicy aroma with only ints of citrus and yeast. Sweet caramel honey with some mildly tangy peach fruitiness and medium herbal bitterness with some lingering caramel and spice. Medium body. Saison is a wide-ranging category and this is an example of an interpretation that does nothing for me. Meh.

3.8 Draft at When Pigs Fly. Pours copper with an off white head. Aroma is fresh baked bread, fruity esters. Flavor follows nose, with some pepper and clove from the yeast and a little grassy hop bitter in the finish. Very nice balance.

3.6 Pours cloudy amber with low white head. Aroma of honey, wheat, citrus, light herbs. Taste is sweet, slightly peppery, herby finish with light citrus. Body is light and smooth with soft carbonation.

3.4 @Basunen 14-8-16: ganska enkel doft med tydliga saison-toner. Smaken är söt, lite honung, ganska frisk. Fin balans. ---- Soberness not garanteed!

3.3 Bottle, 7%. Hazy amberwith big white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, yeast, spices and banana. Flavour is malt, fruit. yeast, spices, wheat, little banana, little sweet, little dry and medium bitter.

3.2 65 cl bottle @ home. Pours cloudy golden with a little sediment and a white head that leaves some lacing. Aroma and flavour are Belgian yeast, spices, banana, and lemons - with a slightly dry finish.

3.3 Bottle. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma and flavour is apple, malt, hop, yeast, fruit, pine, tropical fruit. OK beer.