Saison de la Senne
Brasserie de la Senne in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Special Out of Production|
Score
7.78
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First batch - 2008.
Second batch - August 2021.
Directly inspired by traditional saisons of the 19th century, beers meant to quench the thirsts of farm workers at harvest time, the Saison de la Senne is a beer of mixed fermentation. It is both bitter and aromatic thanks to particularly generous hopping, while at the same time developing a vinous and tangy character thanks to a blending with old lambic from the Cantillon brewery. Ripened in oak barrels for 9 months and listed at 4.3% abv.
Second batch - August 2021.
Directly inspired by traditional saisons of the 19th century, beers meant to quench the thirsts of farm workers at harvest time, the Saison de la Senne is a beer of mixed fermentation. It is both bitter and aromatic thanks to particularly generous hopping, while at the same time developing a vinous and tangy character thanks to a blending with old lambic from the Cantillon brewery. Ripened in oak barrels for 9 months and listed at 4.3% abv.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Moeder Lambic. Pours a cloudy yellow with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is oak, citrus, floral, yeast. Medium body, oak, lemon zest, floral, light finish, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2021
at 21:31
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
330 ml bottle from Etre Gourmet, bottled 26 Mar 21. Orange, medium hazy body, with a big, frothy, lacing, white head.
Smells beautiful of the typical Cantillon funk, white grapes, lemon candy, apricot, some apple, moderate wood, some dough. Tastes also amazing, quite similar, a bit more tannic and wooden.
Medium, a bit creamy mouthfeel, with a quite lively carbonation. Finishes perfect, smooth, complex, tannic, wooden, vinous, quite dry, funky, citric, with grapes, stone fruits, apple.
I love this! This is the perfect blend of two of my favorite breweries, the Cantillon lambic providing the characteristic, rustic funk notes, while it has the perfect balance and crispness I love DLS for. The barrel aging is so well integrated, leading to beautiful, moderate wooden notes. Overall this is so smooth and drinkable that you could easily overlook how complex this is at the same time. Addictive! Score: 9 / 4 / 9 / 5 / 17
Smells beautiful of the typical Cantillon funk, white grapes, lemon candy, apricot, some apple, moderate wood, some dough. Tastes also amazing, quite similar, a bit more tannic and wooden.
Medium, a bit creamy mouthfeel, with a quite lively carbonation. Finishes perfect, smooth, complex, tannic, wooden, vinous, quite dry, funky, citric, with grapes, stone fruits, apple.
I love this! This is the perfect blend of two of my favorite breweries, the Cantillon lambic providing the characteristic, rustic funk notes, while it has the perfect balance and crispness I love DLS for. The barrel aging is so well integrated, leading to beautiful, moderate wooden notes. Overall this is so smooth and drinkable that you could easily overlook how complex this is at the same time. Addictive! Score: 9 / 4 / 9 / 5 / 17
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2021
at 19:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Akkurat. Hazy, golden liquid with medium white head. Aroma of white pepper, funk, lemon, bubble gum, apples and wheat. Taste is dry and light bitter with notes of lemon and white pepper. Medium bodied with light to medium carbonation. Nice and drinkable, still complex though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2012
at 09:54
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of pepper, lemons, and yeast. The flavor is sweet and acidic with notes of yeast, brettanomyces, lemons, and pepper, leading to a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2012
at 12:39
10/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
Received a glass of this by accident @ Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas: we ordered “Zwarte Piet” and received the same unmarked bottle with Zwarte Piet written with a marker on it as we did when we did get the “correct” beer but to the waitresses surprise when she poured the beer she got a bright, slightly cloudy golden/yellow beer instead of the regular near black – she left us the glass & went to get the correct and to investigate what we got, which led to the conclusion that we just got “Saison de la Senne” – we split the glass between us three, declaring it unanimously a fantastic beer, supper happy that we got a free glass of this by accident – slightly cloudy with a white head, smell is Cantillon-y (first wrongly guessed 3F because I expected a Cantillon blend to be rounded, I figured this was Cantillon or 3F, after getting the “correct” nswer, I felt like an idiot & I should); lots of barnyard, quite fruity & funky, hay, zest (almost near to acidic), almost sweet touch in the back, honey-ish, taste-wise, I have no idea how this was fresh but at this point the lambic dominates so much (granted it tastes incredible) that this should be called a lambic instead of a saison, funky, sour, barnyard, hay, touch acid, touch funky basement, nicely blended sour beer, slight yeast, fruity, hint of white pepper, hint of honey, leading into a touch bitter finish which is like “aged hops” bitterness, refreshing, light, dry, crisp, citric, at this point this is basically just an incredible Cantillon (which is very, very, very far from a bad thing in my book), probably 2008 vintage
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2012
at 00:41
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
75 cL bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is barnyard fruity, citrusy and orange fruity. Smooth fruity, orange fruity and smooth barnyardy. Smooth and fruity finish. Crisp citric and barnyardy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2012
at 14:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
750ml bottle pours a lightly hazy, bright yellow with one ring of white head. Nose of perfume, honey, floral, light spice, a little estery. Flavor is sweet, herbal, candy cugar, lightly acidic, honey, grass. Medium bodied, acidic finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2011
at 12:55
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Bright golden color, small white head. Aroma of straw, hay, lemon peel. Taste has barnyard, lemon, hay. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2011
at 05:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very good dense white head, lace; hazy yellow beer with a green shine. Again lambic Cantillon nose, wry, with unripe grapes, lunaria and other green fruit. Little spicy bitterness, helping to relieve the expected acidity. Root vegetables and health spices, with again such a bitter-vegetable aftertaste, not unlike artichokes. Quite some astringency, wry, medium bodied, bit spritzy. Very special, but the balance is not always ship-shape. And I have grave doubts about a Saison, containing real lambic - old-style Saisons had their own spontaneous infections.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2010
at 12:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Akkurat, July 2010. Hazy orange with a small white head. Tasty and interesting tart Saison with elements of wood, citrus, green apples and some grass. Dry with a bitter finish. Good stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2010
at 22:44