Stillwater Jaded
Dark chestnut colored ale with a nice steady off-white head. Aroma is all about finesse, loads of blossoms and spring flowers. The mouth-feel is refined, playful and complex with Saison-like peppery flavors. Soft nutty after taste with a bite."
3.6
239 reviews
Rochester, United States
Community reviews
Bottle. Listed on the label as 9.0% rather than 10.0%
Pours the cloudy brown of unfiltered cider with almost no head whatsoever. Sour wheaty nose, some perfume but I don’t get the complexity lauded in the commercial description. Given the aroma, the beer is remarkably sweet in taste, warm malts atop mulled plum wine (OK, I’m totally bs-ing there but it sounds good). Raisins and spice. Characteristic Stillwater metallic close. Full body, some alcohol heat late. Far from a drainpour, but I’m just not all that impressed with this one.
330 ml bottle at home - taken from notes (15/03/2011). Pours clear brown with a fluffy head, nose is full of toasty malts, Sweet body, malty flavours. mmm-okay.
33cl bottle at Bruce’s, thanks to Paul. It pours a deep caramel colour with a small beige head. Aroma is sweet with toffee, caramel and dried fruits. Some peachy hoppiness. Taste is mostly sweet with burnt caramel, figs and plums. Some alcohol is there. Medium bodied with good carbonation. Quite good
Bottle shared at Pre-Zwanze tasting. It pours hazy dark brown with a small beige head. The nose is wood, mellow roast, toast, brown sugar, mild oxidized notes, dried fruit and coconut. The taste is cola, raisin, date, prune, spice, toast, brown bread, caramel and light alcohol. Medium-full body and fine carbonation. Well-rounded and balanced. Nice stuff.
Bottle at the Pre-Zwanze Tasting - Bruce’s in London. Thanks to Paul. Pours lightly hazy brown with a creamy head. Rich bready malt nose, some brown sugar and caramel, hints of age. Big sweet flavor with sugary bread, caramel, hints of chocolate, doughy bread. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish, some aged dark malts, caramel, light alcohol, dates. Very nice. Has aged well. Interestingly, I get some quite different characteristics compared to when I tried this on draft a few months ago. (3.7)
Tap at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2013 - Day 2, Session 1. Pours clear, deep orange with a strong, creamy crown. Sugary wheat in the nose, candi sugar, lightly toasted dough. Big sweet flavor with sugary dough, further candi sugar, light alcohol, hints of herbs. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Lightly warming finish with sticky sugars. The sweetness is somewhat cloying at times. (3.5)
Herb würziger, wenig süßer Antrunk. Schokoladig, mild trocken alkoholisch. Würzig, herber werdend, Kräuternoten, schokoladig. Intensiver, gut. 11/910/9/9/8/9
Draft. Pours hazy gold thick white head, moderate lacing. Aroma is yeast, pepper, citrus. Taste is dry with pepper, pineapple, brett, white bread. Very crisp and easy drinking. Slight pleasant booze burn.
Pours a dark brown color with a very creamy, tan head. Aroma has a lot of caramel, yeasty esters -cherry, apple, red wine, light phenol finish. Flavor starts off with smooth caramel, toasted malt kick with notes of wheat later on. Lot of yeasty esters come through late with raisin, cherry and red wine flavors. Alcohol is pretty well hidden. Body is light, modest amount of carbonation. Overall a good brew with some unique character too it.
CBC - Red Session, Østerbro, Copenhagen, DK.
Tap, 050513.
Amber with white head. Aroma of yeast. Flavor with fruit, caramel and spices
Bottle. Rusted amber with a short tan head. Nose is rather boozy and flowery with earthy notes, straw, yeast and ripe fruits. Taste is flowery up front with light herbal notes, sweet malt, toasted grains, ripe fruits, booze and yeast. Body is medium with a light, bubbly carbonation and moderate warmth. Finishes with more earthy and flowery notes, soft spice, malt, ripe fruit, yeast, straw and booze.
Pours a reddish amber. It would be dark for Belgian golden, but it’s pretty light for a BSDA. They should just call this a Belgian ale and leave it at that. Small to medium off-white head. Fades to not much after a couple minutes. Just a bit of lacing. The aroma is raisins, pepper, caramel and some nutty, toasty malt. There’s also a light spice touch, almost like a woody cinnamon, possibly the flowers coming out in an odd way. The taste is pretty sweet with a bunch of toasty malt. It dries out some in the finish with a woody, floral aftertaste. Peppercorn spice throughout, pretty strong. Slight medicinal note - I’m not normally a fan but it works well, here. For the floral side, I wish there was a bit more rose and less jasmine, which I’m not a big fan of in beer. That said, the flowers are much more restrained than I expected. Stillwater does a very good job with not overdoing oddball ingredients in their beers. Little booze evident, just some warmth at the end. Decent bitterness towards the finish, sort of a leafy tobacco flavor. Mouthfeel is pretty light for the abv and initial sweetness. Overall, it’s a pretty good BSDA, but despite the complexity, I’m left a bit unsatisfied. The flavors just don’t quite play off each other well, for my palate anyway.
375 ml bottle bought in DC at a fairly steep $12 price tag. Slightly hazy chesnut brown covered by a mostly lasting light beige foam. Perfumey, very floral nose which has some elegance, but the floweriness hides most of the subtleties underneath. It’s not agressive, but very forward and too strong a perfume to give sidekicks like cereals any chance. In mouth, it’s easier to graps nuances such as toffee (albeit there is not much residual sugars in here), clovey, peppery and anisey intense phenols, burnt toast and hay. Pleasant and complex enough, though fairly alcoholic in mouth, it plays in the ground of sippers, yet has fresh and bright aromas. The contrast is unusual and the perfume is focused on flowers to the point where it may very well be a love or hate situation for many. I tend to lean toward the curious category myself, appreciating the particular challenge and typicity, but not finding here something I would want to drink with any regularity even if it were not for the steep price.
Pours murky brown amber with pretty much no head. Aroma of yeast, hay, barnyard, earth, butterscotch, light corinthians, Taste is lightly astringent bitter with a mellow balancing sweetness and tons of barrel and alcohol. Body is light to medium sticky with soft carbonation. Did I mention the alcohol? It’s all over the place!
Aroma is dark fruit, berries, malts, flowers, alcohol and slightly perfumed. The flavor is malts, dark fruit, slight sweetness notes and a tangy/mildly alcoholic finish.
February 2013. Tap at Max’s in Baltimore. Amber color with an off-white head. Floral aromas with malt and yeast. Spicy flavors with a bit of sweetness on the finish.
Sample at CBC 2013.
Amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma and flavour of caramel, fruit, alcohol and malt.
Newly released version that is not brewed at De Struise but rather at Dog Brewing in Maryland. Not sure why the price went up two dollars a bottle since the last release seeing as it was brewed much closer to home and the bottle size only increased by .8oz, but I digress. Pours a rich rusty ruby chestnut color with a finger of eggshell foam. The nose is very interesting with a big malty belgian candi sugar background, touch of kola nut, and some deep floral notes. The palate follows the nose nicely... spiced floral malts, cola, almond a touch thin but round at the same time. Lingering hay and stale grass with just a touch of molasses.
Tap @ CBC 2013. The pour’s medium amber with a small head. The nose is bright banana, saison yeast, light plum and dark fruits. The taste is more of the same. Jammy dark fruits with a countryside saison earthy sweetness. A touch of lemon. Pepper. Medium body. Overall, fine.
On tap @CBC13. Dark brown with beige head. Aroma is sweet, toffee, burnt sugar, some fruit and flowers. Taste is similar with mainly toffee and alcohol. Nice beer
Jet black with a large white hoad. Very thick feel. Roasted malt, chocolate, and caramel give it an almost stoutish feel.
Draught @ CBC. Pours deep golden with a offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, nuts, dark fruits, alcohol. Flavor is rich malts, caramel, nuts, sweetness, dark fruits, light hops, alcohol. Full body, soft carbonation, warming alcoholic finish. 040513
Sample from tap, CBC 2013. Hazy,almost muddy brown colour with a small off-white head. Sweet aroma with yeasts, dark, dried fruits, candid sugar, spices and rich caramel malts. Full body, sticky, soft carbonation. Finishes longlasting, lightly bitter with a rich sweet fruitiness lurking behind. A hint of alcohol. Interesting.
Bottle pours a light brown with orange hues, small fluffy white head, and no lacing. Aroma includes bubblegum, banana, and rose water. Taste begins with peppery and floral notes leading to hints of banana and burnt caramel. Crisp finish with slight booziness and flavors lingering.
Nose is caramel, ripe banana, toffee. Taste is caramel, dark soured fruits, figs, dates.
Draft. Dark unclear chestnut. With great lace. Aroma is light sweet white bread, a little funk, not ripe pears, and flowers. Similar flavors with a dusty and lightly spicy bitterness after a pear fruity sweet start. Nice slick mf. Great beer
Dried fruits, some fresh hops, candy. Dark red brown with small beige head. Dark ipa’ish hops, sweet raisin malts with some sour malts as well. Medium body. Bittersweet finish.
Bottle at Brasserie V. Unfiltered amber-brown body. Big off-white/beige head. Sweet raisin, dark fruit pungent aroma, quite intense, Quad-like. Brown sugar and dark fruit all the way. Pretty nice beer, maybe a little sugar forward. Funky burnt chocolate, sort of an Eastern European feel at times. Fruit and nut overload. Lacks subtlety, but makes up for it in quality and richness. Prune. Not as balanced and smooth as other Stillwater beers, but very Belgian. OK. Tastes like an Imperial Belgian Buckwheat ale.
Max’s Taphouse, Baltimore cask: I tried samples of this from tap and cask and opted for the cask, which I got poured into an imperial pint (oh my!). Pours a dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is molasses, fruits, spice, and a good bit of yeast. Alcohol is quite high, but is also quite well covered. That being said, there is certainly a bite in this. Some burnt flavor in there with the molasses. Loads of fruit. Hella lot of maltiness. I got a hangover a few hours later, but it was worth it. Good beer.
Cask. Pours hazy amber with thick, creamy white head; decent retention and lacing. aroma is lavender, bread and cereal malts, floral notes, grassy hops, light spice, and some Belgian yeast. flavor is bready malts forward with good supporting spicy and grassy hops, dry wood, and light yeast; dry finish. Medium body and low carbonation.
a new beer , not by , but with struise i had at home.
pours very dark red / brown , white foam ( very fine bubbles) . smell is complex, but not overwhelming. i get that earthy character, and some sourness like a FOB
taste is WAAW
reminds me at the old struise. look, struise is my favourite brewerie, still. but the last things all taste the same ( bourbon, sweet, strong) . this is again a waaw-feeling i had when i first drank pannepot and such . THIS IS GREAT
i get earthy, FOB- character, szeetness like the pannepot froml struise has, maybe a hint to much carbo , but thats also next to perfection. this is what i would think earthnun would taste like. i dont like this, i LOVE this !
but next to this all, this aint no struise brew its all stillwater, who i only know from outblack colab with struise, i did not like that one... maybe, just maybe, they’re kindof the opposite of what i thought they were. laybe, just maybe, stillwatter is a VERY nice brewerie! hands down, the biggest surprise in months !