Side Project Brewing Oude du Blé

Oude du Blé

 

Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸

  Farmhouse - Sour Saison Rotating
Score
7.95
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 28
Oude du Blé is a Chardonnay barrel-fermented and -aged expression of Saison du Blé, our Missouri Wheat Saison. Our mixed fermentation of local microflora and a classic yeast strain with extended aging in French Oak produced an exceptional Saison with deep layers of complexity and soft, rounded oak nuances. This farmhouse ale was aged for more than a year before its release.
 

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8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750ml bottle. Clear gold. Spitty white head. Lemony, green grapes, neutral oak. Good minerality. Nice. 7 8 8.5 8 8

Tried from Bottle on 06 Oct 2025 at 14:23


7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours unclear blonde. No real head. Scent is fruity (yellow fruits), funk, overripe citrus. Taste is full , tart, very refined. Higher acidity (far more than the 2020 I had besides) More complex fruityness as well. Less specific on the citrus though. Bit high on acidity.

Tried on 11 Apr 2025 at 16:45


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Pours clear blonde. Scent is sharp, grainy, saison style. Taste is sharp, honey-like funk, citrus, tart. But very, very mellow. Medium carbo. Sharper MF. Great summerdrink.

Tried on 11 Apr 2025 at 16:39


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750mL bottle. Pours murky blonde with white head. Aroma has tons of rustic saison yeast, dry barrels, some tannic wine character. Flavour has rustic saison yeast, bugs, some acetic acid, lots of buttery oak barrel and white wine character. This is excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2024 at 04:45


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750mL bottle, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma is very complex, with lots of wild bugs, buttery chardonnay, and oak. Flavour is light-to-moderately acidic, with some buttery chardonnay, oak, and rustic saison yeast. Tons of buttery chardonnay, rustic notes, and oak, with just a touch too much acetic character on the finish. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2024 at 04:45


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pale and a bit of haze. The head died down fairly quickly. On the palate, it's tart, bretty, with a decent amount of acidity. The chardonnay lends some fruitiness, especially in the finish. Lemony, decent, but it might be a bit on the simple side.

Tried on 17 Oct 2024 at 04:43


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

750ml (thx, Brent D.!) @ Matt's house. Vintage 2019. Appearance: a bit hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: funky, some oak, slight notes of manure, quite sophisticated. Taste: along the same lines, bready, malty, funky, some noticeable tartness here that's observed mostly in STL saisons. Overall: good, but was overpriced as everything close to be good from SP.

Tried on 17 Oct 2024 at 04:37


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Poured from 750mL bottle. Hazy blonde gold with small white head. Oak, soft saison yeast, light tartness, underlying chardonnay quality. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2024 at 04:37


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Taster from 0,75l bottle in Sint-Truiden. Yellow hazy color, small white head. Smells funky, earthy, light peaches, stone fruits. Nice to very nice smell. Full body, soft carbonation. Tastes stone fruits, hay, grassy, peaches. Finishes lightly dry and light to lightly sour with notes of stone fruits, earthy and grassy notes. Very nice one, very mellow, not your typical side project sour

8, 7.5, 8, 8, 8

Tried from Bottle on 02 Sep 2023 at 18:27


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Pours hazy blonde, almost white head. Scent is buttery, acidic, fine, american style, yet very refined, SA. Taste is full, funky, very oaky. Buttery, fairly intense and complex, all whilst being particularly refined. Great work !

Tried on 04 Jun 2023 at 20:39