Smells hoppy and Belgian and something a bit like pine cleaner, and more or less tastes the same way. That is, mostly what you'd expect and then something just a bit off hits you in the face. My third eye describes this as "a bit like frying butter emerging from an evergreen forest."
I am usually a fan of IPAs...however, something about this beer just did not agree with my tastebuds. It smells good, unfortunately, the smell does not live up to the taste.
(Tasting of a 12/2012 bottle of this "bottle conditioned" beer) White pine chip smell-- like the big white bag you can find at feed stores. Sour effect on start/middle. Not very bitter, more sour. Drying effect on mouth after finish. Not a bad beer flavor in the fruity area of taste on the first sip, but the sourness keeps adding on and what was good is gone.
It smelled wonderful, and fresh, and fragrant, but the flavor just couldn't live up to it. This had everything I dislike about both saisons and IPAs (alcoholic flavor, lingering bitter finish) without very much in the other direction.