Saison de Bruxelles
L'Annexe - Brasserie Fermenterie de Bruxelles in Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.93
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Staff recommendation at Brasserie de L'Union. Bottle. Hazy golden color fluffy white head. Aroma of peppery dusty hay. Taste is black pepper and straw. Nice body. Cheers Bjern and Arnaud!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
First beer from a new Brussels micro brewery, apparently a resurrection of a former saison style ale. Strongly developing, thick, very moussy, frothy, quickly thinning but fairly stable, egg-white lacing in 'streaks', hazy peach blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge, deeper orange-hued as more of the sediment goes in. Aroma of raw pineapple, peach, freshly cut grass, margarine (diacetyl, no doubt), unripe melon, green apples, soggy white bread, camomile tea, melting powder sugar, ketchup or tomato-flavoured potato chips, soap, coriander seed, white pepper, gherkins. Sweetish onset, peachy esters, bits of banana, apple-like acetaldehyde, initially extremely sharp, even painfully numbing carbonation calming down a bit after a while, giving more room to a diacetyl-ridden butteriness - perhaps not very relevant in a saison, but actually quite pleasant to me personally at least (vaguely reminiscent of an English bitter even, if it weren't for the thoroughly Belgian-yeasty nose). Bready maltiness, lingering honeyish sweetishness but altogether dry and crisp, with lots of fitting minerally aspects on the sides; grassy, rather phenolic-spicy finish but perfectly acceptable for a saison, confidently hop-bittering and drying, with spicy-peppery notes lingering alongside residual malt sweetness; carbonation, even in weakened form, remains agressive till the end. Overcarbonated at first even for this usually highly carbonated style, and I guess the diacetyl could be something of an issue to some, as it does leave behind a margarine-like flavour and feel; yet I personally find this newby very drinkable and pleasant, a bit different and sufficiently qualifying as a saison indeed, contrary to whole strings of ordinary Belgian blondes re-labelled as saisons these days just because the term is hip in our postmodern craft beer era.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as L'Annexe Saison de Bruxelles (by L'Annexe):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
19/XII/17 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared with Lee Barrass @ home - BB: 7/VII/20, bottled: 7/VII/17 (2017-2212)
Little cloudy orange beer, bit creamy white head, little stable, pretty adhesive. Aroma: very spicy, coriander, yeast, some banana peel, grassy touch, dusty, dry impression. MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: quite some banana, pretty bitter, slightly sourish, spicy. Aftertaste: yeasty, some banana peel, soft bitterness, dry, very decent beer, not sure if this would qualify as a true saison, bit too much of banana yeast profile.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
30/10/2017 @home - 33cl bottle from Fermenthings, Jette. Clear golden with huge rocky head. Nose is malts, spices. Taste is malts, spices, bit peppery some hops, bit sweet in the end. Too heavy carbonated.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thank you! 330 ml. bottle sampled. I love how it says brewed in Brussels despite being brewed at Millevertus which is no way anywhere near brussels, sigh. Clear golden, disappearing white head. Nose is very soapy plastic, BE esters, fizzy, low chemical. Far too carbonated. Fizzy banana, chemical, esters, soap, esters,…. Very Belgian indeed but not for me but definitely still excusable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Opens with a big relief of pressure. The pour is unclear, darker blonde. Head is pretty big, but I anticipated for worse. Scent is bit dry, peppery notes form the saison yeast. mild intensity. Some hay. taste is full, pretty intense. Hay, mild residual sweetness. Some of the saison yeastyness. Big maltyness towards the ending. too high carbo for me. Pretty decent saison.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy amber body. Fizzy white head. Aroma of oranges, vanilla, honey. Moderately bitter, moderately sweet flavour. Distinct millevertus touch. Great!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl Bottle from Beer Mania. Slightly hazy golden orange colour, pillowy white head. Aroma is spicy, medium sweet, caraway, fennel, light lemon, malts. Flavour is light to medium sweet, spicy, malty, hay, hint of oranges, bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. A bit on the sweet side, but tasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: huge, white, long lasting. C: deep gold, hazy. A: malty, orange peels, spicy, yeasty, cheese. T: malty, earthy, orange peels, spicy, cheese, yeasty, basement, medium body, high carbonation, not bad, 33cl bottle from BelgoMarkt in Brussels.