Bottle. Malt Attacks, Brussels. Hazed, deep gold. Thick, foamy, lasting, lacing, white head. Nose has bready yeast. Pine needle. Gingery spice. Bit of a baked apple thing. Taste is sweet and spicy. Piny bitterness. Medium body. Foamy carbonation. A little sticky. Piny and sweet finish.

Bouteille 33cl de Malt Attacks, BB03/07/2019. Léger orangé, col épais crémeux fin blanc-cassé. Arôme sur un effet un peu fruité rappelant les baies rouges avec un accompagnement fin de grains concassés. Nez finement fleuri voire forestier de sapin sous un effet seigle nettement plus au devant. Palais est sec sur un malté plus présent et indiquant de fines notes de caramel voire de biscuité sur un côté fruité rouge. Retrouve un fini typique de DLS dans une fine sécheresse de levure et sur un accompagnement houblonné fin tirant sur du noble citronné. Le tout est finement houblonné rappelant le seigle. Seigle semble être plus apparent, DLS indique un deuxième ingrédient typique de Suède : bourgeon de sapin? Sur la fin pointe finement sucrée.

Huge, faintly cream-coloured head over fully hazy orange beer. Aromatic nose with malts, partly coloured, partly pale, and then something reminding me of... Badedas...? Sweetish, sweet resin, if that makes any sense. Something reminding of royal jelly without the honeysweetness. In all, very demure flavours. A bit viscous from the resins. Good carbonation. I think the spruce ought to have been upper (quite) a bit, really.

New Senne saison in collaboration with Stockholm Brewing, brewed with rye and spiced with spruce shoots as befits a nordic themed craft beer. Bottle from Fermenthings. Medium thick, pale yellowish egg-white, creamy, moussy, relatively dense head only slowly showing small gaps after a while, atop an immediately cloudy, warm orange blonde beer with peachy hue. Aroma of old soggy 'grey' rye bread, sourdough, apricot, armpit sweat, withering leeks, light piney spruce shoots but more subtle than expected, hogweed leaves, banana peel, old wrinkled apples, thyme, old dried grapefruit peel. Fruity-estery onset, old apples mixed with impressions of peach, banana peel and light pineapple, sweetish with a well-developing sourish edge reinforced by minerally carbonation; soft, fluffy mouthfeel, notably bready body, soggy rye bread indeed, bread crust, cereals. Phenolic spicy notes typifying Senne's house style especially in combination with a confident, lingering, bit oily and weedy hop bitterness, the weediness of it accentuated by a dash of resinous 'pine-ness' from the spruce shoots but again, the latter remaining subordinate to not only the hops, but also the malts and phenols. Ends dry but juicy (as in 'soggy bread juicy'), somewhat resinous, quenching, bitter and spicy, with a pleasant yeast-bitter breadiness to it; a withering leek- and overripe onion-like, sweaty note of 'old hops' is undeniable retronasally. Rye is clear enough if you know how to find it, the spruce component remains understated in comparison with what one expects after reading the label - but not being the biggest fan of actual spruce or fir tree elements in beer to begin with, this is hardly a disappointment for me. Feels like a typical, bready, cleverly phenolic and hoppy Senne ale or, indeed, saison to me. Nice, but I was expecting something less, well, 'common'.

330 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar. Hazy orange, creamy white head. Nose is quite BE without typical DLS yeast, Be esters, low soapy, dark bread, rye,… Taste is very perfume heavy, grain, rye bread, bread, fruity, quite low fruit,… Lively, touch thin bodied. Touch fizzy. Good but not stellar as expected from DLS, less expressive than hoped, less pine etc. Good but not great as hoped.