Draft @ BxlBeerFest 2019 - day 2. Sous le nom de Borinage Rayon de Soleil. Dorée, col fin blanc. Arôme au nez de grains pils, qcq éléments de levure avec un effet un peu lactique en rétro. Pointe d'amertume. Palais sur une base levure belge, malt pils, impression fine rustique avec un houblonné noble léger. Petite douceur de fin de bouche avec une composante rappelant le mielleux. Sec et poussiéreux sur la fin.

Straw blond colour with light haze. Aroma has some yeasty notes and a little funk. Nicely dry mouthfeel. Flavour has woody notes, grapes, straw. Complex.

Rye saison from this young Walloon microbrewery, with sober but informative label. Thick and regularly shaped, egg-white, moussy, membranous-lacing head, lightly hazy peach blonde robe with 'old gold' hue and some strings of sparkling. Aroma of ripe apricots, plum jam even, sweetbread, fig compote, old bread crust, ripe pear, honey, cooked sweet potatoes, cloves, raw parsnip. Sweetish onset (though less sweet than expected based on the nose), estery peach, pear and light banana impressions, fizzy and bit minerally carbonation, slick and rounded, bready and slightly caramelly malt sweetish base with a dim spicy note from the rye, but very subtly so. Floral, bit spicy hop bitterness in the finish, a tad wormwoody and dried citrus peel-like, lingering along with residual and estery sweetness. I see earlier ratings here talking about rather harsh hop bitterness but that does not apply to my bottle, perhaps the hop dosage has been tuned down a bit meanwhile? In fact, I find this rather sweet for a saison, could use more hop bitterness really… Other than that, a fine Belgian style blonde without any noticeable flaws.

Bottle 660ml. @ [ Hackney post-Pig's Ear Tasting ] - The Leighton House, Hackney, London. [ As Ça Brasse Pour Moi Rayon de Soleil ].Unclear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, frutiy malt, moderate yeasty, saison yeast, minerals, fruity yeast. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20171205] 6-3-7-3-13

Tap. Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma is fresh yeast, flowery, hops, dough. Taste is dough, flowery, some hops, bananas. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Ok!

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A slightly golden beer. Aroma of belgian yeast, yellow fruits, some straw. Taste of mild fruity hops, yellow fruits, yeast, some apples.

Lightly hazy yellow body. Creamy white head. Citric unbalanced aroma. Moderately bitter flavour, also relatively unbalanced.