Saison
Brouwerij De Vlier in Holsbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.93
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gist: Hoge gist, ongefilterd en hergisting in de fles
hop: Lublin- en Styriehop
mout: Pils- en tarwemout, havervlokken, koriander, curaçao en zoetstof
temp 4-6°C
Vol. % alc: 5,5
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Leighton (34941) reviewed Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle at home in Hackney - sourced from online. Pours clear, bright yellow-gold with a billowing, frothy, pure white head. Lightly effervescent. Aside from the attractive appearance, this beer is not good. Overly sweet, with a bracing butyric acid infection. So, note of vomit, bile, baby puke, cheese. Also some ripe citrus fruits, orange and tangerine, doughy wheat bread. Medium bodied with lively carbonation and slick texture. Sweet, borderline sugary finish, more puke, ripe and sweet citrus fruits, flabby wheat bread. Poor.
Tinus (5080) reviewed Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy golden colour, white head. Malty aroma, coriander and spices. Malty flavour, yeast, light funk, banana. Finish banana, yeast, cloves and malts.
(from 75cL bottle @ Leuven Innovation ’15)
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
From a 75 cl bottle bought at Belgiuminabox. Quite strong gushing, but manageable. Loosely structured, coarse, off-white head only retaining on the edge of the glass (apart from a wafer-thin ’island’ in the middle) but vanishing after several minutes; initially clear golden blonde robe with lively fizz, turning a hazy peach blonde as more of the bottle is added. Aroma of canned apricot, candied banana, white pepper, lemon, wet hay, powder sugar, sweet white wine, coriander seed, orange peel, strong ripe gooseberry, sourdough, soapy wheat, cider, mojito, chalk, overripe kiwi, some urine. Estery onset, very sweet apple- and even strongly cider-like with further flavours of gooseberry, sweet white grape, pineapple and some banana, clearly overcarbonated even for the style, honeyish and caramelly malt sweetness in the middle with an additional, tiring white candi sugar sweetness on top and unmistakable wheat ’soapiness’ below, lean and on the thin side; the sweetness, though not too cloying, remains in the end, as the hops department is restricted to a certain grassy and floral quality lacking in bittering power but leaving some bittering grape peel accents; tingling carbo even hits the back of the mouth, impairing drinkability. A chalky powder sugar sweetness remains, together with curaçao sourishness, adding a welcome refreshing effect; a bittersweet coating of coriander ’soapiness’ is there too, but not too obnoxious. Weird beer: I will respect ’brewer’s intent’ here, but if this is to be judged as a saison, I have many objections: too sweet, too wheaty, not hoppy or refreshing enough. In fact, this seems much closer to a witbier (i.e. the sweeter side of the style’s range) than to what I expect from a saison - mind the spices used too in this context! Overcarbonation combined with an unstable head - even in terms of appearance, it is clear something went wrong here. Looks and even smells like fermented and spiced green apple juice in the end... Hard to pour down, too sweet, overcarbonated, poor from a technical point of view and certainly not a saison no matter how this ’style’ is defined, this is not a great success, that much is clear.
Joren Monnens (3486) ticked Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 10 years ago
Benzai (24515) reviewed Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Sampled from bottle @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Slightly hazy pale yellow color, small white head. Smell and taste overripe fruits and vomit. Tastes about the same: vomit and weird sweetness. Not good at all. Yuk.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle sample @ Leuven Beer Innovation 2015, shared with the RB Belgian crew. Dorée tirant sur un orangé trouble, col blanc. Arôme rappelant les grains fermentés et un rétro fruité rappelant vraiment une pomme, cidre, rien s’apparentant à une saison hennuyère. Ce dernier me rappelant le vomi de bébé. Palais est épais, trop effervescente et surtout pétillante en bouche. Rappel d’un mixe avec du jus de pomme et jus de concentré qui donne un aspect trop sucré mais qui déteint avec le fini légèrement aigrelet.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Small white head, over pale yellow beer, fully hazy. Nose of... I’m sorry - vomit. Spices? Some pale malts, for sure; Sweet - dull - rootspices. Petit Beurre cookies. Slick, gristslickness. Light to medium bodied. That nose!!
77ships (14506) reviewed Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Thanks for sharing! Sampled 750 ml. bottle @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Murky hazy orange. Nose is rotting fruits, oddly sweet esp. for the style, candy, sugar, light lactic sourness & faint stomach acid. Taste is weirdly & hugely sweet, lots of candy, sugar, artificial vanilla, straight up butter, something off lactic,… Thick sugar & touch butter body. I don’t understand Kraddel’s rave review of this beer. Complex? Maybe. Good? Nope, this is pretty bad as far as I can tell.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Saison from Brouwerij De Vlier 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Trübes goldenes Bier mit einer geringen weißen schaumkrone. Geruch fruchtig, süß bananig, trocken hefig. Geschmack hefig, süß bananig, gering citrusfrüchte, gut.