Ben's Belgian Saison
Delhaize in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!Farmhouse - Saison Series
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Score
6.62
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bier4der (3358) ticked Ben's Belgian Saison from Delhaize 5 years ago
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Ben's Belgian Saison from Delhaize 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: huge, snow-white, good retention. C: pale yellow, light hazy. A: bit malty, grassy, touch of funky, bit spicy, bit grapefruit, herbal, citrus, floral, young cheese, yeasty. T: light citrus, dry grassy, peppery, leaf, herbal, bit funky, orange peels, medium body, higher carbonation, nice one, enjoyed, but this commercial drive series (like “Delhaize Ben's”) are not my thing, 0,75l bottle from Prik&Tik/Quali-drinks/ in Brussels.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Ben's Belgian Saison from Delhaize 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Delhaize Ben's Belgian Saison (Ben Vinken) (by Delhaize):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
23/VII/15 - 75cl bottle from Delhaize (Gent) @ Claudia's BBQ - BB: 13/III/17 (2015-963)
Little hazy blond beer, big aery white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, citrus, grapefruit, bit grassy, floral, soapy touch. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter start, citrus, floral, soapy, some grapefruit. Aftertaste: fruity, citrus, more grapefruit, pretty bitter, grassy, little spicy touch. By no means a saison, but it's a nice tasty beer, I have to admit. Too bad, cause I would've loved to crack down on this... :p
Kraddel (15872) reviewed Ben's Belgian Saison from Delhaize 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours hazy yellow. good white head. Smell is fresh , saison yeast. Taste is lightly bitter. Very fresh. Nice
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Ben's Belgian Saison from Delhaize 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dry-hopped saison, the first one in the new 2015 series of beers ’developed’ by self-proclaimed beer sommelier Ben Vinken, the man to whom we owe the Beerpassion magazine and dito weekends in Antwerp. From a 75 cl bottle purchased at Delhaize. Thick, irregular, frothy, off-white head consisting of coarse bubbles and leaving a thick lacing on the edges; colour misty yellow blonde with narrow columns of sparkling here and there. Aroma of lime peel, mango, wet hay, the white underside of an orange peel, pine resin or even eucalyptus, chamomille and acacia honey, thyme, rosemary, green apple peel, sourdough, freshly cut nettles and other field plants, pear, young cheese, jute, sage. Taste begins crisp and restrainedly fruity, dried berries, apple peel and unripe plums, fairly strong carbo, minerally, leading to a sourish grainy character, bit astringent, softly bready and sweetish somewhere in the background; yeasty tones come up and gain strength towards the finish, where they are aided by quite a strong, earthy, leafy, lightly peppery but at the same time aromatic and floral hop bitterness, which lasts for some time, but also allows some bready malt sweetness to creep through, as it should be, certainly in this style. Is this a good saison? Being old school when it comes to Belgian traditions and still regarding Saison Dupont, Saison de Pipaix and even Saison d’Epéautre as the archetypes of the style, I’d argue this lacks some of the fruity sweetness as well as ’funky’ tartness of the grandfathers of the style plus I don’t think a saison has to be dry-hopped with American hops (au contraire!), as the label claims; still, in its overall aroma and flavour, this brew still manages to behave quite saison-like, in that it is very crisp and refreshing, yeasty and ’weedy’, even a bit ’barnyard’-like in some respects, and in that sense I reluctantly admit this is quite accomplished for its style. That being said, any peach blonde beer with a big head and even the slightest trace of ’barnyard’ aroma seems to be called a ’saison’ nowadays, and I have the feeling this style - or rather, loose historical ’group’ of beers - has difficulties to cristallize (provided that is what we want it to do; I’m even inclined to raise the question if Belgium is ready to have one of its ancient beer traditions being defined and ’dictated’ by American craft beer culture, which is exactly what seems to be happening nowadays; this is turning beer history upside down for me, but I probably should move to the forums for this). Anyway, I will keep track of the three other 2015 Delhaize Ben’s beers, but I’d be surprised if this series manages to maintain the same interest with a witbier, a Belgian amber and an oak aged version of that Ben’s Strong Dark... The latter not even belonging to an ’authentic’ Belgian tradition, in my opinion. Anyway: I expected way less from this one, that is for sure.
77ships (14509) reviewed Ben's Belgian Saison from Delhaize 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750 ml. bottle @ home. Purchased @ Delhaize. A lot of Belgian brewers have recently resealed saison’s, soon one will be capable of speaking of a real explosion. No doubt that this is a late result from the American beer revolution. Pretty much all of these beers weren’t really a saison should be in my opinion & many were bad. I do not have high expectations for this one. I tried 3 beers from this series so far, one was acceptable but totally missed the style & 2 were just awful. I poured it into my Beer Sommelier glass – points for proper glassware. Hazy pale lemon appearance, big tad chemical looking egg-white head. Nose is quite big on Sulphur, white sugar sweet, white bread yeast, light milky yeast & maybe very faint hop. Taste is chalky & milky tad bitter, white sugar, surprisingly sulfuric, faint chemical lemon peel, light pepper, touch coriander, silky & milky feel… Rather chemical & faintly medicinal tasting, chemical & silky body. I find it to be rather bland, it is almost like it just isn’t there. Carbonation is a touch high. Okay but it doesn’t make me feel anything. JorisPPattyn below me calls it a good saison so who am I to say otherwise? Joris knows infinitely more about saison’s than I do.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Ben's Belgian Saison from Delhaize 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Towering, very fine & dense light yellow head, slowly receding over finely carbonated pale metallic yellow beer. Spicy, herbal nose. Some citrus, and I seem to get some coriander- and chamomille aromas. Again quite spicy, even peppery flavour; very dry. Slightly pharmaceutical retronasal. Very light acidity, hoppy surrounding bitterishness. Good carbonation, quite slick, light body. Good saison, unmistakably.