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Quince saison. Will need to go back and top the glass up, lively. A lot different to the others. I like it, hard to detect the underlying saison though
Thanks @dave_77
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@Twostage was kind enough to share a bottle of his Abbot Ale ‘clone’, and while I’m lousy at giving tasting notes I will do my best.

It poured fairly smoothly with a big head as you can see which settle down into something a bit more modest (which then proceeded to stick around. Colour was a little darker than I expected but clear without haze.

Taste wise carbonation is fairly gentle a tad higher than a cask Abbot would be with a lot bit of bite from the CO2 but as is the way with any bottled beer. It has a nice almost creaminess to it, hops are clearly their but don’t overpower the flavour from the malt, which gives it a nice sweetness, I was drinking this while cooking and I think I enjoyed the second half more than the first as it had started to loose some of the ‘fizz’ which meant the flavour of the malt came through much better.

How close it is to Abbot is difficult to say for certain (Tesco online was out of Abbot or I would have purchased a bottle for direct comparison) but it’s certainly a nice beer which I wouldn’t send back if I received in a pub or restaurant. Thank you again to Twostage for sharing.

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