Michelada Saison
Brasserie du Brabant in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Sour Saison Special Out of Production|
Score
6.11
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nathanvc (6881) reviewed Michelada Saison from Brasserie du Brabant 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
28 April 2019. At Zythos Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, 77ships & tderoeck! Hazy orange, no head; glass covered in a herbal mix by the brewer. Aroma of celery, salty tomato, pepper, salt, cold soup, vegetable stock, Tabasco. Taste is light to medium spicy bitter, pepper, chili, herbs & yeast, subtle sweetish notes of fruits underneath, gazpacho- & vegetable-like saltiness building up, vague sourish edge, leading to a dry, slightly grassy hoppy finish, vegetable lingering & a chili burn in the throat, retronasal bready effect. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Experimental indeed; aroma is weird (for a beer) but not that bad, just takes a while getting used to it. Can't say, however, that I found it tasty. Interesting to say the least, but hard to give it high marks as a beer.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Michelada Saison from Brasserie du Brabant 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Experimental 'saison' presented by Brabant at ZBF '19, cheers Fred! Some loose, off-white bubbles right initially but gone completely in instants, leaving behind a headless, hazy amber-tinged orange blonde beer. Non-beery but - to me - delicious aroma of lime juice, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, celery salt, chili peppers, basic notes of white bread and green pear. Some apple and pineapple notes in the onset but low in sweetness, dry and low in carbonation, soft bready and very lightly nutty malt base quickly superseded by the intended effects of tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, lemon (or rather lime) and celery salt with a noticeable, yet not overpowering chili heat in the end - a combination of flavours that will make you think you just took a sip of a Bloody Mary rather than any kind of beer if tasted blind. Citric, heating and brimming with lovely vegetable umami flavours, this hit a sensitive spot with me: I love tomatoes and all things chili, so even without dipping the rim of the glass in chili flakes like Fred did at ZBF, this is entirely my cup of tea and unlike any beer I had before - and I had quite a few, including very weird ones, not least by Brabant itself. Utterly experimental, there is little left of the saison premise in this one, Fred himself described it as a 'cocktail' and indeed this is the most cocktail-like beer I ever had so far. Doubtlessly one to drink as fresh as possible but lay off this bizarre concoction if you are after 'true', beery beer - I never thought it would be possible to evoke Bloody Mary in a beer as genuinely as is the case here, I even doubt if this has ever been attempted before, but Fred pulls it off. Whether you like this or not, there is no denying that this beer achieves its own goal with brio - this is a work of conceptual art. Brabant at is weirdest perhaps, but at its most creative as well. There is, however, no doubt in my mind that this brew will divide opinions as sharply as day and night - and if you don't like the set of ingredients presented here, you will definitely hate this one. Love it or hate it, but you can't ignore the skills required to pull off this kind of 'mimicry'. Extremely hard to judge, this creation truly left me stunned, after a few dozens of other beers this was exactly what I needed to reset my palate - completely.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Michelada Saison from Brasserie du Brabant 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Du Brabant Michelada Saison (by Brasserie du Brabant):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 1/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 3/20, MyTotalScore: 1.4/5
28/IV/19 - on tap, shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2019 (Leuven), BB: n/a - (2019-588) Thanks to nathanvc, 77ships & Anke for sharing today's beers!
Cloudy orange beer, no head. Aroma: celery, spicy, funky, stock cubes, dirty and utterly weird. MF: no carbon, medium body. Taste: wow, that's dirty, horse manure, sourish, weird spices, some chillies, what is this stuff? I got no problem with some experimental ingredients, but the outcome in this case is a hot mess. :p