6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Aroma of wheat, hay, floral notes, spicy yeast, peppery notes, citrus fruits. Flavour is light to moderate sweet. Subtle beer but it doesn’t leave me wanting more.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy yellow colored brew with an dry bitter taste with an excellent extra sour taste, good hints of lemon and white pepper.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Yellowish golden colour, mediumsized white foamy head. Aroma is some honey, green apples, mild bready and herbal tones. Flavour is green apples, some mild bready and honeyish tones. A bit citrus and funk to it too.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Botle. Blonde. Floral hops and muscat grapes in the aroma. Wheaty floral citric flavor. Dry. Muscat grapes. Nice and characterful.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

26 June 2018. Sample at 't Taphuys, Tilburg. Shared with Anke.
Clear pale golden with a small, foamy, white head; lots of lacing. Aroma of hay, flowers, soap, green apple & pear, apricot, yeast, sourdough. It tastes light fruity sour, notes of apple & hay, and light grassy bitter, a bit spicy; malty & bready back with basic wheaty sourness. Dryish, earthy hoppy finish, spicy & wheaty. Medium body, slick/soapy texture, soft carbonation. Quite 'organic', somewhat quenching; probably not one to revisit.

6

Leuk idee, maar nee

6.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Oersoep's take at the old saison style with wheat and oats added. Bottle from an Albert Heijn supermarket in the southern Netherlands. Thinnish, egg-white, moussy head, quickly dissipating in the middle and leaving behind a circular 'island' of flat foam whilst retaining thinly around the edge - yet disappearing altogether in the very end; lightly hazy, pure and warm golden blonde robe with vaguely olive greenish tinge. Aroma of cat pee initially (light struck in spite of the brown bottle) but fading away very quickly, after which more flattering impressions come to the foreground: green olives, cheese crackers (clear aging of the hops actually), dried out white bread, withering dill, almost rotten spinach leaves, yellow grapefruit peel, hay, fresh green seaweed, pineapple, wet cardboard, gum, pear, glue, old lemon juice, Granny Smith apples, cooked turnips, soap, camomile tea, hint of chicken soup. Crisp onset, some thin esters including unripe banana, pineapple, peach and apple, only restrainedly sweetish with sourish surroundings reinforced by quite vivid carbonation adding some minerally aspects - yet still not overcarbonated for the intended style. Smooth, very lightly oily mouthfeel with the velvety, almost buttery effect of the oats being quite noticeable, even pronounced. The sourishness continues underneath a rounded 'white' bready, bit cereally malty middle, quickly making contact with a floral, 'green herbal', dill- and cervil-like hoppiness which provides some late, mild but well-positioned bitterness against the malt sweetishnes. Ends herbal and 'khaki' green, with the creaminess of the oats lingering and probably enhanced by a dash of coriander seed; long-lasting, superficially earthy, green-herbal hop bitterness lies on top of that, but in all, remains very thin and does not penetrate the soapiness of the wheat and the soft breadiness of the barley enough to be of great significance. Hops are more important here in the nose than in the mouth, where this beer behaves almost as a modern Anglo-Saxon wheat ale. Apart from that 'green', withering herb- or lettuce-like 'roughness', I see very little in this beer that would make it qualify as a saison - but then, 'saison' is the go-to term these days for anything even remotely 'rural Belgian', it seems, even for beers which have absolutely nothing rural nor Belgian to them. This particular one is best regarded as a clean, sweetish, soapy, hoppy American style wheat ale rather than either a saison or a witbier I think, and then you probably will not be disappointed too much.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

From tap. Pours clear and golden yellow. Small white head. Aroma is estery, phenolic. Bubblegum and mild fruity. Medium dry. Estery. Slight fruity. Bitter and slight herbal hoppy finish.