Cul de Chien Saison
Tall Poppy Brewing Company in Kontich, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Cervejaria LobosFarmhouse - Saison Regular Out of Production
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7.15
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled between ratebeer and Brewver, so no specific notes. Nice show of the fruits in a surprpsingly balanced saison. Relatively dry, recognizable as saison base, but expanding the style with this example. Would enjoy again.
Re-sampled (found one more bottle at a local shop) . pours relatively clear, amberblonde. Medium sized white head. Smell is typical saison phenols, nice bready malt aroma, bit of hay as well. mild citrussy, dry, herbal aspect. Taste is sharp, dry, phenolic. Too high carbonation though. Citrusy, almost orange like fruityness, but not overdone. Dry, as is the style, yet very tasty. Too bad for the too high carbonation. Very decent saison. Have enjoyed again ;)
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Les épices sont réellement bien présentes sur cette saison. Peut-être un peu trop. Elle aurait gagné à être plus nuancée. Mais c'est davantage son côté brouillon qui m'a gêné car le cocktail n'est pas désagréable. Visuellement nous sommes sur un blond orangé (EBC de 25), limpide avec une mousse blanc cassé d'un cm. Le nez est sur la pomme, la poire, le poivre, le gingembre et la citronnelle. À noter que cette saison intègre combava, nèfle et poivre dans sa recette. L'attaque, acidulée, présente une effervescence trop marquée. On retrouve les arômes présents au nez avec un poivre relevant bien l'ensemble et une base plus douce tout juste décelable en rétro sur le miel et la pêche. Pas d'évolution aromatique en seconde bouche mais une saison qui devient plus brouillonne et qui se perd en arrière-bouche. L'amertume, avec un IBU de 30 se ressent davantage sur un final quelque peu racé et d'une bonne longueur. L'alcool à 6,3 % est passable tout comme la corpulence. Cette saison est en fait représentative de la tentation de nombreux brasseurs d'ajouter des ingrédients aromatisant leurs bières (imperial stout compris), alors qu'on leur demande en premier de maîtriser leur brassage (en fait sur ce dernier point j'ai bien peur que le grand public soit avant tout friand d'exotisme).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Saison with spices and medlar – an ‘old-fashioned’ fruit noteworthy for being consumed in overripe condition and one I haven’t eaten anymore since I was a child, never seen it in a beer before either. Thanks to Johan of Biersalon. Very thick, foamy, egg-white, lacing, mousy head towering over a lightly hazy orangey-tinged peach blonde beer with fierce sparkling throughout. Aroma of ripe banana, very pronounced coriander seed, dried thyme and wormwood leaves, pear, pineapple, ripe peach, white pepper, ‘herbes de Provençe’. Fruity, crisp onset, some restrained sweetishness hinting at dried apricot and banana with again that sweet pear-like aspect, very subtle but – when you really concentrate on it – coming from actual fruit rather than esters, so no doubt this is the medlar element, which I am sure is so subtly applied that no one will be able to detect it without the knowledge that it is in here; spritzy carbonation, dryish cereally malt sweetish body with drier and sharper grainy edges, indeed ending spicy with coriander seed featuring most prominently, alongside impressions of thyme, dried grapefruit peel and dried bayleaf, supporting and complementing the wormwood- and citrus peel underside-like hop bitterness, which establishes a long, dry, spicy finish in which the fruity aspects keep shining through as well. Dry, spicy, quenching and spritzy enough to indeed qualify as a ‘real’ saison – contrary to many other simple Belgian blondes that tend to be called ‘saison’ these days just because it is trendy; the medlar is very subtle, but does peep through here and there in a very ‘masked’ kind of way. Interesting and tasty beer, like most of Tall Poppy’s output.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Tall Poppy Cul de Chien Saison (by Tall Poppy Brewing Company):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
30/VI/19 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ Abeel's place, BB: II/2021, bottled: 17/II/19 - (2019-913)
Clear orange beer, big solid creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy, coriander, bit sourish, malty touch. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: lots and lots of coriander, spicy, some orange peel, pretty bitter, herbal, soapy. Aftertaste: spicy, more soapy, some alcohol, orange peel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
On tap at Dr. Beer, Antwerpen. Cloudy golden, small lasting off-white head. Aromatic, yeasty, fruity, stone fruit, ripe pome fruit, phenols are delicate peppery with a touch of plastic. Lots of peach and apricot once it settles down. Dusty, yeasty, peppery. Light carbonation bite. Light bitterness. Sophisticated. Light to medium body, medium to high carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
I Draught /I Huge, dense & firm head over faintly hazy orange-golden beer. Spicy nose, rootspices and faintly pine needles, far chiew powder. Very bitter, hops that absolutely don't taste USA, again some dry spices, ground root and other grains. Unripe berries, medlar paste. Bit wry, on the verge of astrigent. Not bad. I really couldn't find Citra in the flavour, and if I hadn't had homemade medlar paste, I wouldn't have found that neither.