Smuttynose Hayseed
Hayseed is our new summer seasonal offering. It is a delicious sessionable farmhouse ale, also known as a grisette. Light-bodied, yet flavorful, Hayseed is like liquid sunshine: perfect after a hike, floating in the lake, or while playing fetch with your old brown dog.
3.3
153 reviews
Hampton, United States
Community reviews
Bottle pour, thanks Andrew for sharing this one. Lemon juice color pour, bite on the tongue, semisweet season tast little tart, nice beer.
12 oz bottle poured, picked up in St. Pete. Best by 10/1/2016. Fun, unique try here. Pours a light hazy golden color with a ton of foam head. Lemon, belgian like aroma. Flavor is a little more full than I expected from such a light saison. Cool and refreshing overhead, with some lemon, straw grain, easy spice, and a late fruity bite finish. Tasty session belgian ale for sure. This is a good beer to be drinking outside doing something cool.
Light lemon, pine scent with smooth floral smells. Hazy pale yellow color with three finger white head, great lacing. Lemon of the front of the flavor profile with grass and some floral taste at the end. Light body with super crisp carbonation. Great summer beer want to drink more of this. Bomb brew!
Bottle from Market Street Wine Shop, Uptown. Pours golden with a small white head. Aroma of lemongrass, lightly floral, with some poor-man’s-pepper in the end, though I suppose that could be coriander too. For some reason the aroma took me back to being in 6th grade and going on a nature hike and the ranger telling us about "poor man’s pepper," which I have just looked up and it’s officially called Lapidium virginicum. Anyway, rambling here. Taste is lemongrass, light herbs - I almost want to say basil but it’s not. Dry and really not bad - just not exciting.
12 ounce bottle - $2.29 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw,
Georgia.
Appearance: Scantly clouded, pale yellow body with a smallish, white head.
Smell: Frankly, a bit of an odd, floral, peppery aroma. Some underlying wheat, pilsner maltiness.
Taste: A blend of pils, wheat and white pepper, a touch of grandma’s floral soap, slightly grainy, slightly tart, with a hint of lemon candy. This just isn’t coming together for me at all. At all, Smutty.
Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium-high carbonation.
Overall: A bit off-putting, for me.
Bottle at Cafe Nero, january 26th 2016. Clear yellow body with a big white head. Aroma of wheat, cardboard and grain. Taste is malty with grass and biscuit with just a hint of citrus. Short dry aftertaste. Doesn’t resemble a saison or farmhouse in my opinion, as a beer itself it is allright though a bit boring.
Has a sweet malty grass aroma, taste is a nice spicy grass, good body. Nice beer.
Daytona Beach, Fl - Total Wine & More - 12 oz bottle. Slightly hazy, light golden pour, nice bubble action, light snow white head that sticks around a while. Aroma has some lemony accents, a touch of coriander. Refreshing flavor, some light bubble gum sweetness, a touch of coriander, some citrusy lemon notes, a touch of saffron spice, Nice, crisp refreshing mouthfeel. Good summer refresher.
Pours a nice gold from a bottle, yeasty barnyard aroma and flavor. Bit of sourness. Good beer.
Pour is a bright clear gold with a large white head. Aroma is a bit of citrus tartness with some floral yeast esters. Flavor is a bit light but that is to be expected. Some dry pils type malt with a bit of grassiness and wet hay. Not a real big ester or pepper you get in some saison’s. Made for summer drinking but this is another beer that maybe a bit too light all around.
4 oz pour on draft at Scion DC. Clear bright yellow with off-white head. Aromas of floral notes, malt, herbs. Tastes of citrus, floral notes, malt, herbs. Medium body with a dry finish.
Light tan color. Thing head. Easy drinking light bready taste. Very nice for the summer to session
Bottle, best by Sept. 7, 2016. Pale hazy blonde. Thin crown of scattered white foam. Soapy and gluey yeast aromas, with hints of lemongrass, wheat, uncured hay and lactic acid. Prickly carbonation. A soft lactic tartness yields to peppery phenols early on. A yeastiness films the palate while soapy notes overshadow the lemongrassy hops. Fairly doughy, as well. Depth contributed by the uncured hay maltiness is minuscule. Fairly husky malt hints at popcorn and wet straw. Semi-dry finish is muddled by a soapiness and paintlike yeast, as lemongrass lingers. This isn’t very clean or refined, but it’s not terrible. Would love to see more hop dynamism and a drier finish. The wait continues for an American brewery to knock a 4% saison out of the park.
Bottle to pilsner. Appropriately straw yellow in the glass. Lemon nose. Great barnyard funk, like a saison lite. Great summer beer.
August 12, 2015. Bottle at Akkurat, best before September 25, 2015.
Hazy pale yellow with a medium sized light creamy white head. Aroma is citrus, hay, grass, some spicy, yeasty pepper notes. Taste is light sweet with grain and orange, light bitter finish with hay, grassy and spicy notes. Light to medium bodied, average carbonation.
Very nice session beer.
Crystal clear yellow pour with a thin white head. Aroma is apicy with notes of straw and yeast. Flavor is entirely different than the aroma. Nice tart Saison, just a bit sour, lingering bitterness. Body is pretty good for such a low abv.
Bottle. Slightly hazy pale yellow color, massive white head. Aroma of dusty overripe lemons and white pepper. Taste is peppery hay, funky citrus. Tasty and refreshing summer beer. Love the reasonable abv, extra point for that.
Crisp golden coloured body with a very clear glow of honey and a very thin off-white head. Aroma of honey, light malt, some subdued spices and a touch of grass. Light-bodied; Strong malty flavours at first with a bit of grain, some light spices and herbs. Aftertaste shows more of the same with more of a grassy and herbal component, but not enough of the dry, spicey character you’d expect from the style. Overall, a decent Saison at best with only a little of the dryness and complexity that are typical with the style. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Gainesville, Virginia on 14-May-2016 for US$1,95 sampled in my hotel room in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 21-May-2016.
Pale yellow no head. Esther’s c pepper and papaya. A little bitter orange peel, again these beers all have the same malt grossness. The yeast or hops aren’t cleaning this up? Lemon juice, pepper and ginger.
On tap in a shaker. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of light malts, some spicy yeast, notes of light fruit, and light floral hops. Flavor the same. Average to lighter texture. Decent but not great.
Bottle. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, fruitiness, some bubblegum, yeast and herbs. Flavor is sweet and fruity with some herbal notes and yeast. Thin body, average carbonation.
Bottle 355ml @ Geokkjer
Pours clear yellow with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, yeast, wheat, hay and hint of grass. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter with a long slightly dry, citrus and yeasty finish. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is fizzy
Bottle. A clear one, pale golden in color and with a dense, finger-thick white head leaving some lacing. The aroma is lightly bready and pear-ish fruity, with some apples, pine cones and a faint yeasty, peppery touch. It’s medium to thin on the palate, with a nice carbonation. Dry. Pear, generic fruityness and some pine cones in the flavor, with a nice bitterness. Pale malts, some peppery yeast and a touch of white bread, leading to a piney, citrusy and peppery finish. Sure an easy drinkable one, but perhaps a bit yeasty. 160504
Pours a golden amber color with big fluffy head. Aromas of citrus, grass, yeast, and some dusty notes. Starts spicy effervescent, then to some grassy funky highlights...nice brett finish.
On tap at Brunzies (7/10/15). Dry grainy-musty nose, light herbal notes and carbonic gaseousness. Pale golden amber clear with light haze and no head. Medium body with medium-high carbonation. Dry start. Light flavors with mild coriander and other herbs or spices. Light sweet malt with dry light bitter finish and clean after.
From notes (July 2015). What a great idea on Smuttynose’s part -- a 3.8% grisette that is light, clean, and refreshing, but also manages to pack a big taste into a tiny ABV. This is really great stuff.
Wunderbar spritzig, Geruch kräutrig, fruchtig während des Trunks und das alles bei den niedrigen Prozenten. So werden wohl die klassischen Saison Biere in der Wallonie geschmeckt haben. Zu empfehlen. 355ml Flasche vom Craft Beer Store HH, 1,50 Euro, da abgelaufen.
Bottle from Utobeer, London - UK. Color: pale blond beer with small carbonation and small white foam. Smell: grassy and herbal, saison nose. White wine, with small malt and sourness finish. Taste: light body, good saison taste, sourness and fresh herbal taste. Good balance with sweet malt and amazing attenuation. Superb finish. Aftertaste: dry bitterness and really small sourness saison taste. Sweet.
bottle @ Party Town / Florence KY --- Aroma of malt and light spice. Hazy light straw color, white head, streaks of lace. Taste is malt that coasts easily through a medium fizzed swallow to a finish that features coriander, light spice, and light hops. A spritely, easy to drink, satisfying Saison, especially at 3.8%. Recommended.
Hayseed is our new summer seasonal offering. It is a delicious sessionable farmhouse ale, also known as a grisette. Light-bodied, yet flavorful, Hayseed is like liquid sunshine: perfect after a hike, floating in the lake, or while playing fetch with your old brown dog.