75cl bottle (bottled 10/2018) from Rob the Gourmets’ Market in Brussels. F: big, creamy, egg-white, long lasting. C: gold, hazy. A: fruity, banana, floral, apples peels, bit spicy, herbal touch, bit yeasty. T: medium malty backbone, herbal, harmonic prominent long lasting bitterness, bit yeasty, fruity, bit spicy, grassy, bit saison like feeling, medium carbonation, bit caramel, good balanced for the style and enjoyed.

Bottle @ home. Hazy orange colour, white foam. Light sweet malty with bitter grassy finish. Typical De Ranke Profile. Some fruity notes also.

30 April 2019. At Dirk's First Home-made Beer Tasting. Cheers to all! Pours hazy golden with a lasting, small, unstable, frothy, white head. Aroma of grass, apple peel, young banana, herbs, pepper, pineapple, turnip, yellow bell pepper. Taste is light fruity sweet, restrained apple & pear, some banana but not too estery, medium hoppy bitter core of grass, spices, sourish undercurrent with a decent bready & yeasty character, leading to a dry, grassy hoppy finish with more yeast, spices & unripe fruit. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Feels very Belgian and yet modern at the same time, well done by Ranke.

Unclear, golden colored, medium white frothy head. Nice spicy belgian yeast mixed with De Ranke floral and herbal, spicy hoppiness, medium bitterness, some malty flavors. Medium bodied, soft+ carbonation, oily. Always a pleasure.

Last year's edition in this series, with Fuggles this time, 75 cl bottle from De Hopduvel in Ghent. Thick and frothy, foamy, egg-white, dense, membrane-lacing head, apricot blonde robe with dirty ochre-ish hue, enlivened with enthusiastic sparkling everywhere. Aroma of green banana, dry old 'herbes de Provençe', old bread crust, fried apple, rosewater, curcuma powder, dough, pear, dried wormwood leaf, cloves. Fruity onset, banana ester mixed with pear and apricot impressions, green apple touch, sweetish but not too sweet, medium carbonated with minerally effects, but not too harsh. Bready malt body, both 'crusty' and doughy, soft with a very light peanutty edge somehow, quickly turning more earthy and herbal, with a confident and nicely 'rippling' hop bitterness, yet remaining altogether fairly soft and mild, leaving the door open for the fruity esters to continue well into the finish. Earthy yeasty notes too, especially in the end. An earthy, quenching Belgian blonde like the others, free of off-flavours or other technical flaws, very highly drinkable and ticking all the boxes as far as classic Belgian saison is concerned (more so than many other beers called 'saison' for commercial reasons nowadays); does feel a tad less hoppy than earlier editions, though, probably because Fuggles is generally regarded as a rather 'shy' and low profile English noble hop variety - a message De Ranke amply conveys here, though perhaps unintentionally so. Solid enough, but I liked most of the earlier versions better.

7-3-7-3-14 Bottle, five months after bottling. Pours orange with sediments, with a finger thick creamy head. Aroma is yeasty notes of wood and herbal hops, as well as sweet malts with toffee. Creamy body, with average carbonation. Flavour is wooden yeast and bitter hops with pine, grapefruit and floral notes, as well as malts with toffee.

How: Bottle.
Where: Systembolaget.
Appearance: Hazy golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Fruit, malt, floral, hops, yeast.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Fruit, yeast, hops, spices.

Hazy golden with a lasting white head. Spicy and green herbal aroma with a faint fruity touch. Sweetish fruity and herbal flavour with a touch of pepper. Quite bitter and drying finish.