Lauwendries Saison
Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal in Tildonk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.55
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Tom (2085) ticked Lauwendries Saison from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Geers. Cloudy blond colour, white foam. Lots and lots of carbonation, it overpowers everything. After pouring it in and out the glass for several times, it was much better. Notes of hay, pepper and sweet herbal notes. All in all a very enjoyable beer, but it's a pity its overcarbonated.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Smell- weak malt, some faint yeast, caramel maybe. Foam- thin, sour, hops, yeast, citrus and some odd aftertaste. Head is small, white color. Appearance- brewer bottle cap, the rest is quite simple. Medium carbonation, clear orange, yellow amber with a bit of sediment. From - snifter Taste - malty, sour, hoppy thing. The first sip is mostly malty and it turns into sour-bitterness in the aftertaste. There are some yeast and caramel somewhere, some citrus and maybe even fault Belgian yeast notes, but sour stray kills it for me. Not my type.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
30/III/20 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: big ink blob (2020-288)
Clear gold blond beer, big creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, cow fodder, some ripe banana, bit spicy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice bitter start, fruity, some banana, spicy, bit peppery, hint of citrus. Aftertaste: yeasty, some banana, bit sweet, chemical, medicinal bitterness, dry finish. Just a little off, but otherwise a nice saison!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Beer Mania beer store in Brussels. F: big, white, creamy, long lasting. C: milky hazy, gold. A: sweet malty, caramel, floral, honey, herbal, bit spicy. T: medium malty base, herbal, bit mineral, honey touch, dry on the palate, spicy, yeasty, medium carbonation, not bad, enjoyed.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Has all the nice funky saison flavors, but it is incredibly cloudy, wheaty, and a bit muddled. Online etre bier
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. I've had a lot of gushers on previous Hof ten Dormaal beers, so was prepared for another one, but no gusher at all this time. Color: Hazy, rather pale golden, white head with light brown yeast from the bottom of the bottle. Aroma: Dry, yeast, peppery. Taste: Yeasty, herbal and banana notes. Dry. Grain and wheat malt. Hints of white sugar. Moderate to medium sweet and bitter. Bittery palate at finish. Medium body, below average carbonation. Pretty smooth mouthfeel. Overall ok but on the sweet side, bit sticky and not very complex and exciting.
sjogro (11801) reviewed Lauwendries Saison from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at home, thanks Maakun. Unclear golden with white head. Dry malts, peppery and plasticcy dead yeasts. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. Bit soft cardboard and a little algae in there.
Maakun (16597) reviewed Lauwendries Saison from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 6 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared. Almost clear golden with white head. Wheat, cloves, quite some spicy yeast with white pepper and allspice. Creamy dough, bitter spices, light dusty, grain husks. Almost medium sweet and over medium bitter. Medium bodied. Lots of estery yeast notes. OK.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
New strong(ish) saison by Hof ten Dormaal, basically a stronger version of their regular Saison; brewed with barley, wheat and spelt (and sugar). Medium thick, off-white, regularly edged, gradually opening head, (immediately) misty apricot-hued straw blonde robe, turning more milky-cloudy with sediment added (and with the head all but gone by then, looking like home made pear juice, in all). Aroma of ripe banana and chewing gum (isoamylacetate), fried and sugared apples, soggy sandwiches, dried apricot, straw bales, cold French fries, green pear, spoiling lettuce, very old dusty 'herbes de Provençe', background hints of dried orange peel, cold leek soup, cooked turnip, 'dirty' dusty earth, cooked carrot, wet baker's yeast, clay. Fruity onset, classic Belgian ester profile with pronounced ripe banana, peach, red apple and ripe pear notes, sweetish but not too much so, light sourish undertone, medium to softish carbonation (too soft for the intended style even), fluffy but smooth, lightly powdery mouthfeel. Deeply bready middle, bread crumbs and dough, dryish, with the unmistakable wheat sourishness continuing and a spicy-grainy spelt effect showing up, while the fruity esters linger along - all moving towards a very yeasty finish, with an earthy and hayish hop bitter note that continues for a while. Spicy phenols play around in the tail as well, but fruity-estery and, more than anything, dusty and bready yeastiness does get the last word. The overall flavour profile in this one indeed qualifies as a (strong) saison, I guess, with clear parallels with e.g. Dupont's classic Moinette Blonde, but somehow Dormaal managed to mess it up just a little bit, delivering a rather 'dirty', undercarbonated, very yeasty beer with no head retention worth mentioning. Drinkable, sure, but not really looking nice and remaining very classically yeasty-Belgian overall, almost like some 'dirty' homebrewed blonde or tripel. I know that this family means well and every now and then, they have come up with interesting beers in their years of existence now, but generally even the most inspired of their beers remain stuck in overt yeastiness and earthiness that do not really flatter them. Even if the intention here was to create a Moinette-like saison at higher strength than the regular saison, the end result should not be a dirty 'soup' with insufficient carbonation (for this style, I hasten to add) and head retention, something Dupont has mastered to perfection. And even if Moinette was not the preset example here, then still these flaws ought not to have been present at all. This is exactly why I often let Dormaal beers pass by, even if this brewery could potentially increase my number of ticks significantly. Some exceptions aside, this generally beloved brewery has so far failed to convince me somehow, but maybe I am too critically inclined...