Saison
De Meester in Lendelede, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
5.76
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tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Saison from De Meester 3 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is malt and some peppery yeast, grass, grain. Light to moderate bitter, low sweetness. Medium body. Okay but as a Saison it falls short.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Saison from De Meester 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
De Meester's take at the - now - overexposed saison genre, on the market for six-odd years now but I am not this brewery's greatest fan so I have not bothered about this one so far. Bottle from De Picker in Zele. Opens with a hiss but no gushing. Medium thick, slightly irregular, membrane-lacing, egg-white, partially breaking but generally quite stable head on an initially clear, warm 'old-golden' blonde robe with vague khaki tinge and thin strings of visual sparkling. Aroma of a piece of white hand soap and even Aloë vera-scented body lotion (oddly), chewing gum, halfripe banana, sandwiches, touch grass, sweetclover, jade plant or mother-in-law's tongue juice, bee wax, matcha, pumice, bath sponge, touch apricot (still hard), brook water. Fizzy onset, sharp carbonation with stingy minerally effects, sweetish fruitiness reminiscent of banana, apricot and pear all in equal proportions, slick mouthfeel roughened by this ongoing sharp carbonation; white-bready maltiness, cereally, with phenolic spiciness on top (clove) as well as this houseplant-like 'waxiness' - think Aloë again, but now it is fortunately the plant itself rather than body lotion flavoured with some synhetic extract imitating it. That said, the effect remains weird, especially when an almost 'out of place' tonic water-like bitterness suddenly sets in, like a thunderbolt out of the blue; it stretches out over the finish in a rooty, inedible plant leaf-like way and at the same time fails to neutralise that initial ripe stonefruit and banana sweetness. I can see what this brewery was trying to achieve here - fruitiness at first, hop bitterness in the end, but this construction feels wrong somehow, lacking the natural saison yeastiness to guide these flavours in smoother ways that feel less 'forced'. I think this brewery better sticks to their strong beers - and even there, they have a huge amount of finetuning to do, if you ask me, but that is another story. I never liked De Meester's beers to begin with and this unbalanced, unnatural-feeling, odd and wry saison attempt certainly does not help to change my mind, on the contrary...
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Saison from De Meester 10 months ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 3.5
Süffiger, hefig-getreidiger Beginn. Minimale Bitterkeit, wenig kräutrig, kurzer Abgang. Naja... 6/6/5/5/9/5
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Saison from De Meester 10 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A clear deep golden beer with a big off white head. Aroma of herbal pale malt, straw, yeast. Taste of herbal and spicy malt, belgian yeast, moderate bitterness.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Saison from De Meester 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Struise Beershop Woesten e-shop. F: big, white, good retention. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, citrus, hazy, spicy, red apples, bit caramel. T: medium malty base, hay, citrus, bready, red apples, spicy, nice balanced bitterness, medium carbonation, not really for the style bit more like Belgian ale yet ok beer, enjoyed.
Fmungenast (3177) ticked Saison from De Meester 2 years ago
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Saison from De Meester 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled (From De Biertonne). Hazy yellowish golden colour, mediumsized foamy white head. Aroma is fruity, spicy, some herbal and mild farmyardy tones. Flavour is fruity, floral, herbal, grassy and mild farmyardy notes.
TBone (30139) reviewed Saison from De Meester 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled 330ml (AIH147)
Golden colour, small steady white head. Light nose has Saison spiceyness and banana. Light-bodied, active carbonation. Pale malts, Saison spiceyness, light fruityness. Easy and simple.
77ships (14506) reviewed Saison from De Meester 6 years ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bierfestival Brugge 2019. Golden sparkling with soapy white head. Nose is cereal, cow fodder, grainy perfume. Taste is fizzy unpleasant rotting chemical floral, medicinal with way too much carbonation, really bad.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Saison from De Meester 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
2 February 2019. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to tderoeck, 77ships, Jerre, Kevin & Anke! Clear golden with a lasting, small, foamy, white head; lots of lacing. Aroma of grass, jenever, young cheese, hay, white bread, white pepper, 'wet' grain. Taste is light fruity sweet, a bit banana estery, more prominent notes of apple peel, apricot & cheese, supported by a 'white' bready malty base; light to medium spicy bitter middle has white pepper, grass & yeasty touch, some sourish wheat too. Dry, grassy hoppy finish, lingering yeast, bread, faintest touch of grain jenever. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Bit messy overall, has slight potential though.