Hirond’Ale #3.0
Brasserie Dupont in Tourpes, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.03
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It's brewed from 3 types of malt (barley, spelt and buckwheat) and Brewers' Gold hops, all produced in Belgium. This seasonal beer is very thirst-quenching, rich in fruit aromas (lemon, pineapple, ...), typical phenolic aromas and offers a light floral taste.The hops used give it a sustained and balanced bitterness and post-bitterness. The result is a beer with a rich and deep taste.
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Svesse (15611) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
(Bottle) Hazy golden yellow colour with frothy, white head. Spicy, malty nose with notes of apricots, white bread, wheat, clove, honey and citrus. Spicy, malty taste with apricots, white bread, clove, honey, citrus peel, banana and a fairly low spicy bitterness. Medium body, quite dry. Well balanced saison, leaning slightly in the Belgian blonde direction. Nice one.
Jybi (2410) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 3 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
J'ai toujours deux sentiments en ouvrant une Dupont maintenant. Vais-je retrouver l'esprit d'une Bons Vœux ou Moinette Blonde que j'affectionne tant ou une bière nettement moins aboutie comme ils en ont sorti tant d'autres. Cette Hirond'Ale 3ème version est entre les deux. On y retrouve le caractère des Dupont mais avec quelques imprécisions sur la structure et avec un final un peu trop tranquille. Le visuel est sur un blond doré légèrement voilé avec une fine effervescence et une mousse blanche de 1 cm. Le nez est typique d'une Dupont sur la banane, la pomme, de légères herbes, du girofle, un soupçon de citron et des céréales. L'attaque est acidulée, mais cela convient bien à l'ensemble. Le citron et les épices ressortent davantage qu'au nez avec l'alcool qui de son côté s'affirme davantage en arrière-bouche. La deuxième est plus intéressante à la fois sur une bonne intensité et sur un bon caractère. L’arrière-bouche est un peu trop acide mais sur corpulence honnête. Le final est très tranquille avec un manque de puissance. Dupont a du mal tout de même à nous refaire entièrement rêver.
MiP (20341) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 6%. Citric, lemony and perhaps Bretty aroma. Hazy bright golden colour. Stable white head. The flavour starts off malty with a mild note of Belgian yeast. Slightly citric and lemony flavour with a note of Nelson Sauvin or some other vanilla thing. Citric and papery finish.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
19/IV/22 (??? No idea when I actually drank this, just found my notes on a loose paper, undated, laying around...) - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: I/2023, lot: 15:05:10 (2022-388)
Clear blond beer, big aery crackling soapy white head, a little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, lots of banana, a bit spicy, coriander, more overripe banana, 4VG. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: gentle bitterness, a bit herbal, yeast, some coriander, a bit soapy. Aftertaste: more soapy, bitter, a bit spicy, yeast, somewhat metallic, banana, meh.
TomHendriksen (8095) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Fles thuis geprobeerd. Het is een helder goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een frisse en gistachtige geur. De smaak is fris, citrusachtige en bitter.
hawthorne00 (9694) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Amber. Almost clear with a cm of white head that lasts fairly well. Mildly funky and earthy aroma with grainy underbaked bread, spices, some orange. Perhaps even more familiar taste with a balance of fruit, doughy funk and purposeful spicy bitterness. Moody, deeply refreshing, deeper than first appears.
thejackpacker (3383) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Systembolaget. A very nice farmhouse style ale that I would have happily had more of. Ticked all the boxes it style suggests it should.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Apparently Dupont is planning to continue Hirond'Ale with slight alterations each year, and being a Dupont fan myself, this third edition is one beer I just had to taste. Very thick, pillowy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing, very stable and dense head sustained by fierce sparkling rushing through a misty golden blonde beer with apricot tinge, turning into a cloudy ochre with sediment. Aroma of dried lemon zest, freshly cut grass, tulips, lemonbalm, sweetclover, red apple slices, straw, homemade lemon bread, halfripe banana, moist white pepper, raw parsnip. Crisp onset, lots of fizzy carbonation with strong minerality accompanying it, somewhat covering up the underlying fruitiness of green pear, red apple and a dash of banana, dryish from the start though, with a slender bready malt core with cereally edges under ongoing green fruit and upcoming phenolic spiciness (clove, even very vague aniseed) but mostly coloured by a vivid, zesty hoppiness, providing long, drying bitterness matching well with the breadiness of the malts and yeast, as well as retronasal effects of dried lemongrass, field flowers and old dried lime zest. I can swear I can feel a hint of warming alcohol going down too, accentuating the bitterness, which is weird for a beer of only 6% ABV, but it does not at all disturb me. Another Dupont saison variation - more of the same, someone of bad faith could argue, but it is a delight every time to bask in Dupont's ancient yeast strain features and their mastery of this ancient style. More zesty and 'brightly' hopped than the regular Saison Dupont too - and the original Hirond'Ale as well, this beer does offer a new shade in Dupont's saison range, and it is as solid as one would expect from this accomplished and experienced brewery. Fit for an early summer evening.
blackisle (5658) reviewed Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
@home poured into a shaker. Slightly hazy medium golden colour, tall frothy white head, good retention, heavy lacing. Aroma light sweet malts, saison yeast, lemon, grassy hops. Smooth taste, medium sweet and bitter, faint acidic untertone, malty, yeast, lemon, grassy hops. Medium body, oily texture, dry sweetbitter aftertaste, some yeast, peppery notes, tasty, very good.
Lilja (4693) ticked Hirond’Ale #3.0 from Brasserie Dupont 4 years ago