La Petite Balade

750ml bottle. Heavily carbonated, ripeish fruity and yeasty with some hints of apricot, banana, lemon and spices. Decent, a bit stuffy saison.

11 September 2021. At Summer Belgian Beer Geek Gathering. Many thanks, Klaas & Liesbeth, cheers to the whole crew!

Hazy orange, big, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of orange, apricot, pineapple, cheese, honey, bread crust, apple, bit funky. Taste has sweet orange & apricot over a honey-malty base, bit sugary, bit grassy. Grassy & floral hoppy finish, lingering yellow fruit, pure malt & honey. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Quenching Saison but that's about it for me.

Bottle @ Belgian Summer Gathering Sept' 21, Evergem. Merci Dylan.
BB 01/2022.
Dorée pâle sur col blanc.
Arôme sur un bouquet belge classique entre blonde et saison, rustique en rétro-nasal. Houblon semble avoir déjà pris du recul, le nez reste centré sur les malts mais un léger fleuri noble du houblon alsacien Triskel perce en rétro-nasal.
Palais reste très classique belge, ici une version quasi à l'identique de la Petite Balade Ensoleillée - plus un houblon. Garde une approche rustique dans la lignée de Nectar Bohème - fleuri avec un fruité subtil en retrait.

In fine, cher payé pour une bouteille à quasi 15€ d'un pack spécial.

11/IX/21 - 75cl bottle @ BBGG Summer Edition (Klaas & Liesbeth's place), BB: VI/2022, lot: PBB01/2020 (2021-1013) Thanks to kraddel+1 for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy orange blond beer, big creamy off-white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, spicy, banana, banana peel, herbal notes, bit malty, some cow fodder. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, yeasty, banana, more banana, bit sweet, alcohol. Aftertaste: spicy, banana, malty, yeasty, soft bitterness, herbal, more yeast, banana.

75cl bottle. A hazy golden beer with a white head. Aroma of belgian yeast, herbal malt, wheat and yeast. Taste of herbal wheat malt, banana, yeast, hints of brett.

Erhöhte Karbonisierung. Herb-getreidigern angenehm hopfiger Beginn. Süffig, die Herbe steigt leicht an, spritzig. Mild würziger Mittelteil, trocken hefig, mittellanger Abgang. 10/9/8/9/8/9

Pours mildly unclear, orangeamber over blond. Medium big to big white, stable head. Scent is BE yeast, some orange, malty, fresh undertone, notes of honey. Taste is full, very, very carbonated. Bit phenolic, bit metallic (mildly, but still) . Mild spicy hops. Severely overcarbonated, which kinda ruins it. Still, it's decent overall.

Saison from this young and small Walloon microbrewery, a one-off created for the BXL Beerfest 2020, which never took place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Huge, inches thick, foamy, audibly crackling, egg-white, thickly cobweb-lacing head, slowly diminishing over a misty straw blonde beer with warm golden hue and lots of fierce sparkling. Aroma – after the sting of carbon dioxide has faded – of freshly cut green Granny Smith apples, dry hay, Conference pear, dry white bread, raw parsnip, old dry lemon zest, unripe banana, dried thyme, gypsum, dry earth, hint of soap. Crisp, very fizzy onset, green banana, green apple and green pear notes with subdued sweetness and lots of minerality from the carbonation; supple, soft mouthfeel, dryish, nice white bread crumb-like malt character with slight soapy edges as well as ongoing minerality. Spicy effects in the finish, thyme, lemon zest, lemonbalm, chamomile – alongside of and intertwined with a drying, grassy hop bitterness, spicing up a soft bready yeastiness and maltiness. Crisp, quenching, technically flawless but ‘traditionally made’ saison and in that sense perhaps the least surprising beer from the six bottles BXL Beerfest pack, but at the same time very correctly made and very well balanced, focused on its own character (saison in this case) more than other Nectar Bohème beers I had; at the same time a typical Nectar Bohème brew and perhaps one of their best so far. Enjoyed it.