Bottle at home. Slight hazy golden with big very fluffy white head. Lots of fresh hops up front, quite grassy but also light resinous and with some peach and lychee. Light sweet grains and a bit of vanilla cake, soft herbs and a bit of cloves/nutmeg/yeast. Medium sweet and under medium bitter. Medium bodied with fizzy carbonation. Quite nice beer but I think I prefer the regular version.

Bottle at home. Hazy golden with fluffy white head. Yeast and spices in the nose. Sweet malts, spices, grassy hops, citrus peel fruitiness, yeast, young wood. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium body, soft carbonation. Semi dry feel and grassy fruity bitter finish.

Bottle at home. Clear pale golden with a tall white head and visible carbonation. Notes of honey, hay, mouldy cellar, mineral water, unripe apples, grassy hops. Medium to light body, high carbonation and a herbal bitter finish.

Sample, hazy golden, small head. Aroma is yeast, citrus. Taste is the same with some peppery notes. ok beer.

A hazed golden ale with a thin lacing creamy white head. In aroma, beautiful mix of banana esters, cloves, fragrant hop, curacao, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with light banana esters, cloves, resinous hops, light mineral notes, very nice and complex. On tap at Tap Ale Project.. In hong Kong of all places.

Top Hops, NYC tap: pours pale gold with a white head. Aroma is spicy, yeasty, farmhouse funk, light hops. Taste is a dry spiciness. Light bitterness. Easy drinking. Quite good.

Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small long-lasting white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty weak grassy hoppy aroma. Fruity malty spicy grainy grassy hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty grassy hoppy spicy yeasty finish.

The 2016 edition in this series, Dupont’s famed saison dry-hopped with - in this case - Brewers Gold, a classic double purpose hop also still cultivated in Belgium, but developed in Kent almost a century ago. The 37.5 cl green (’geuze’) bottle opens with a loud bang and releases ’mist’ but there is no gushing. Thick, frothy, heavily ’paper’ lacing, egg-white head with good retention, lightly hazy straw blonde robe with ’old gold’ hue and fierce sparkling, turning a fully cloudy peach blonde with sediment. Aroma is initially dominated by the dreaded lightstruck effect (’skunked’), but this fades away after a few minutes, unveiling more flattering impressions of green banana, unripe apricot, red apple peel, sweetbread, chamomile, dried grass, hints of black peppercorns, chicory or even raw ’witloof’, turnip, gooseberry, faint vanilla, grape peel, raw potato, old cloves, old dried ginger. Fruity, estery onset, lots of green banana and some banana peel, gooseberry abounding, green plums, pear, sourish and sweetish, well-carbonated with a spritzy, minerally effect to it; these fruity impressions go along a bready and lightly grainy malt middle in which the bitterness of the Brewers Gold becomes apparent at an early stage, becoming more forceful in the finish, where it ensures a dry, spicy, leafy, peppery bitterness with some floral and hayish aromas retronasally; a pleasant spiciness lingers in the throat as a result, while clove- and ginger-like phenols and fruity esters add complexity without becoming too obnoxious. Dupon’s phenolic and green banana-like yeastiness is omnipresent but, as far as I am concerned, works well with the peppercorn- and even slightly dried berry-like characteristics of the Brewers Gold. Too bad for the initial lightstruck effect (that off-putting ammonia-like stench impairing my points for aroma here) but as usual, this largely fades within minutes, allowing the ’true’ qualities of the beer underneath to come to full development, resulting in an utterly quenching saison with certain English bitter-like traits due to the dry-hopping with Brewers Gold. Doubtlessly a beer with great gastronomic possibilities too, as were the previous versions.

Bottle bought @ Systembolaget. Pours hazy golden with a small frothy white head that leaves some sparse spotty trace in the glass while dissipating. Smell is spicy, yeasty and floral with sourdough crackers, hay, dried yellow flowers, minerals, pear skins and lemon peal. Taste is bitter, yeasty, floral and spicy. Mouthfeel is dry, tiny sparkling, tiny astringent, very tiny boozy and medium bodied. Finish is bitter with light estery fruits, hay, minerals, pepper corns and lemon peal. Tasty with food but having a hard time to stand on its own which surprised me. Perhaps just not the right beer for this day.