Double Saison (with Brett, Bottle Only)
Brasserie de la Senne in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: La Brasserie du Mont SalèveFarmhouse - Saison Special Out of Production
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Score
7.49
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Home @ Ortona
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 330 ml at Taverna Ai Mastri d'Arme, Trieste. Hazy orange, white head. Funk, fruit, yeasty, brett, some peach. Sweetish with bitterness in finish. Medium carbonation, soft texture. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle at Moeder Lambic Original. Can't initially feel the alcohol. Nice grainy and fruity aroma, berries but also some spice. Taste is good, strawberry and cream, some more tropical fruit, quite a hoppy finish. Maybe starting to feel the bite, but this is great. Score slightly down because I'm not a fan of strong saisons, but still this is great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle, slow gusher. Glowing hazy golden color with huge white head. Aroma is Orvaly bretts, pear, tropical fruits, white wine, hay, funky horseblankety/leathery flavours, tickles in the nose. Taste is tropical fruits, bubblegum, earthy, hay, leathery, white pepper and some phenolic booze in the back. Good chewiness, soft velvety mouthfeel with spritzy carbonation. Excellently made, lovely dry vineous Brett-Saison that has just a tad too much booze flavours in the aftertaste.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle dated Feb/2016 from Craft Brewed. Pours a glowing gold with a full 2 fingers of rocky foam that lingers. Lovely brett nose with hay, horseblanket, lemon, wheat husks, green pineapple and passion fruit as it warms. Starts to get more tropical as it warms up a bit. Dry on the palate, with hay, fresh lemon zest, mineral notes and a nice mild tropical note that comes off like dried apricot or dried pineapple. Bitter peppercorn and grassy notes on the finish. Great stuff. --- Beer merged from original tick of Double Saison on 07 Jan 2018 at 15:13 - Score: 8. Original review text: Brett nose, lemon, wheat husks, green pineapple and passion fruit as it warms. Bottled 23 months ago. Classic De la Senne dryness. Awesome!
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
The bottled version of this collab of Senne with Mont Salève, refermented with Brettanomyces and in that sense a different beer from the draught version I had at Gollem a few months ago. Very fierce gusher, there was no way I could reduce the loss of 1/4 of the bottle violently spouting out during even very careful opening - a huge disappointment especially because this is a Senne beer, which I tend to expect technical perfection from. Initially towering high, foamy head, settling to a thick, very irregular, 'papery' lacing, moussy, egg-white head over a completely cloudy, 'summery' pale peach blonde beer, yellow-ochre-ish and milky with sediment. Aroma is evidently very Bretty-estery, with hints of moldy grapefruit, fermenting apples, spoiled yellow plums, white grapes, sourdough, goat cheese, old socks, stale urine even, damp hay, very old abbey cheese, armpit sweat, parsnip, baker's yeast, moist white pepper, raw potato juice, horseradish, old moldy bread. Very fruity, vivid onset, lots of esteriness with sweetish notes of peach, pineapple and a soapy starfruit hint, surrounded by a soft sourishness (gooseberry, raw rhubarb), in a sharply carbonated environment; bit coarse mouthfeel with minerally 'stings' as a result. Bready malt middle with sharper grainy edges, still a bit 'fluffy' though, providing a mellow basis for the bone dry Brett effect stretching well into the finish, where the impressions of sweat, old cheese and fermenting stonefruit come to full glory, above a very earthy, deep, peppery, citrus peel- and wormwood-like, firmly bittering hoppiness, adding spiciness to a dry, yeasty, almost powdery, estery finish. Well-intended and this could have worked very well if the fermentation did not spin out of control - no infection or anything like that, just too much Brett, I'm afraid. The gushing (and overcarbonation) aside, this is however a very enjoyable beer, more a modern 'wild ale' than a true saison, but complex, rural, uncompromisingly bitter and dry - nothing wrong with the flavour as such if you're into this style of beer, and in fact very quenching and highly drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
0.33 l bottle from ’Dranken Geers’, bottled in February 2016. Slightly hazy, golden yellow with a large, a bit fluffy, stable, white head. Sweetish, very funky, slightly fruity-grassy and a bit floral aroma of lemon peel, lots of sweat, urine and some gooseberry. Slightly bitter, intensely funky, slightly fruity-grassy and a bit floral taste of lemon peel, pineapple, gooseberry, massive sweat and urine, followed by a medium long, moderately bitter, rather dry and quite grassy finish. Thin to medium body, very effervescent and a bit astringent mouthfeel, lively carbonation. Very nice, lots of brett funk, refreshing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Hazy pale yellow color, big white head with good retention and lacing. Lemon and white pepper aroma. Taste is lightly dusty citrus, dry finish with funk and pepper. Very tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12th January 2017
T42 Bottleshare. Thanks to Matteo. Hazy pale gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light, dry and has modest fine carbonation. Light dry pale malts. Lots of brett, getting bitterish. Trace of floral fruits. Light dry finish. Fine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared in London - thanks to Matteo. Pours unclear yellow with a big, foamy white head. The nose has aged wheat flakes, lemon peel, poop. Light sweet flavour, white dry, with more funk and poo, lemon peel. Light bodied with lively carbonation. Dry finish with some more lemon rind, pale bread, wheat. Novel.