Bottle from het Biermoment, dated 25-07-2015 BB 2 yrs after, large sample. Hazy golden color, big rocky head. Aroma is spicy, peppery, grassy hop, bit coriander, some mashed apples. Soft to medium bitterness, dry, cardamom, spicy, hint of citrussy tartness. Not bad.

33cl bottle. Pours amber in color with a thick white head, lacing. Farmhouse wibes, lemony, peppery notes. Dry, citrusy, floral notes. Mouthdrying finish. Nice.

very hazy dark orange colour, huge, dense, though not too stable slightly beige-ish off-white head; aroma of peach, grainy, floral and caramel notes, some earth and pepper; taste of bread, peach, some sourness, as well as bittery notes; good saison

Another ’new generation saison’, this time from one of the countless new craft breweries and interesting beer projects in the Netherlands. Quite strong gusher. Thickly ’papery’ lacing, off-white, dense head breaking here and there but otherwise retaining well, over a misty light orange golden beer, looks very ’sunny’. Not very strong but nevertheless pleasant aroma of orange zest, unripe peach, damp hay, blood orange, acacia honey, apple cake, white pepper, dried flowers, gooseberry, watermelon, red apple peel. Crisp, fruity onset, redcurrant and unripe stonefruit sourishness, subdued sweetishness, sparkling carbo as expected from the style, minerally, ’clear’ feeling based on a light bready malt base with subtle caramelly features, supporting a firm, drying hop character, firmly but gently bittering, appetizing and quenching as the saison paradigm prescribes, floral, a bit peppery and pink grapefruit-like retronasally. Only a thin trace of the bready malt sweetness peeps through and alcohol remains very much in the background to the point that I would never have estimated this to be 7% ABV. I have watched a lot of new saisons go by lately, Belgian, Dutch, Scandinavian or American, and most are perfectly decent, but miss the essence of this hard-to-define beer style; this one, however, does give me that crisp, drying, quenching, ’rural’ saison feeling. Well-balanced and nice example of the style.

Bottle shared. Pours cloudy orange with a medium off white head. Aroma of yeast, light peppery, citrus and light herbal notes. Flavour is light to light moderate sweet and light moderate bitter. Light to medium bodied with light carbonation.

On tap at Jopen Proeflokaal Waarderpolder. Hazy golden orange colour, no head. Aroma is sweet, malty, spicy and estery saison yeast. Flavour is likewise, quite spicy, sweet, fruity, light citrus, firm bitter finish, herbal bitterness underneath. Medium bodied, totally flat. With this yeast, it just tastes like a Belgian blond ale instead of a floral, dry saison. Love the Slayer reference though.

33cl bottle from Hendrie, Enscede. decent white head. Hazy blond pour. An easy drinking saison

25th September 2015
Borefts VII. Day 1. Bottle share thanks to ? Hazy gold beer, small white head. Palate is light, dry and fairly crisp. Light floralness. Some citric bite. Citric peel. Light finish. Okay.

[9/25/15] Bottle sample at Borefts Beer Festival 2015 in Bodegraven. Thanks everyone who shared bottles! Hazy golden. Aroma of yeast, spiciness, citric hops. Flavor of yeast, some spiciness, bitter citric hops. Medium-bodied, lively carbonation.

Bottle split at BBF 7, Bodegraven, 25/09/15. Hazed orange with a decent off white cap. Nose is light piss, citric tinged straw, lemon scrapes, farmy. Taste comprises farmyard, earthy, lemon, yeast, straw, light spice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Respectable enough saison.