6.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Saison spiced with Szechuan pepper and bergamot, apparently the first one in a series of collabs (called "Your place or mine?"), this time with Brewed by EDIT, an Italian craft brewer. Very extreme gusher: even in lifting the crown cap for about a millimetre, foam prayed out of the tiny opening, and kept doing so for minutes on end; even after letting the bottle stand aside like that for half an hour, I was unable to open it without further loss. Very foamy, egg-white, thickly plaster-like lacing, pillowy head on a misty pale orangey-peach blonde beer with refined but lively sparkling; murky and more ‘dirty’ brownish-orange with sediment. Aroma strongly characterized by both the added ingredients: perfumey, herbal, Earl Grey tea-like as well as spicy-peppery (Szechuan pepper) and orange or even grapefruit peel-coloured (bergamot), further accompanied by impressions of soggy rusk, red apple, ground peanuts, peach, soap, lavender blossoms, caramel but without the sweetness, autumn leaves, dry clay, sweat. Fizzy, crisp onset, very minerally carbonation effect (as befits anything labelled as ‘saison’), fruity with notes of peach, apricot and freshly cut red apple, but remaining fairly dryish and restrained in sweetness; a peanutty and rusk-like maltiness does bring in some sweetness in the middle, bready-yeasty at its edges and strongly aromatized by those pronounced ‘dry Asian spice’, dried orange peel and lavender tea-like effects from the bergamot and the Szechuan pepper. Spicy, herbal, soapy finish with a late, rooty and earthy bitterness, from hops but of course enhanced by the spicing, ending in a long, dry finish. The very violent gushing was really hard to manage here, but admittedly the eventual beer was not all bad, better than expected even, so I guess it was the sugar and yeast balance that caused the heavy gushing here rather than an infection induced by the added ingredients. I hope the others in this series are more manageable to open, but in any case this one was, in the end, quite enjoyable so I will not let it interfere with my rating too much.

3.5

@ 2018

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Huge foamy off white head stayed on an unclear light amber coloured still body. Spices, pepper & yeast aroma. Medium bodied, highly carbonated over the tongue with dry clean back. Yeast, herbaceous, vegetal, spies, chalk g earthy tastes with a long bitter finish. Reminds me of Alvinne beers.

7

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

Bottle. Nose is rye, chewy caramel, chocolate, oranges, vanilla. Hazy red-orange with a thick, low head. Malty orange flavor, spicy, but of veggies as it warmed. Full body.

6.8

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Feniks / EDIT Pimp Your Rye (by Brouwerij De Feniks):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

29/VIII/18 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared with KyotoLefty @ home - BB: XII/2019 (2018-1203)

Clear deep orange to amber beer, creamy irregular off-white head, unstable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, orange peel, caramel, bit malty, bit oxidized, sweetish, some vanilla. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit malty, bit dirty, sulphur, caramel, messy, slightly acidic, cabbages. Aftertaste: malty, grains, bit messy, sour touch, grains, rotting berries, slightly spicy.