Saison
Brasserie Vandekelder in Jette, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: BeerSelectFarmhouse - Saison Regular
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Score
6.43
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Bamsen78 (8658) reviewed Saison from Brasserie Vandekelder 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours nearly clear amber with stable off-white head. Clear aroma of flowers and malt, with estery and hoppy touches. Bitter, hoppy flavour with floral and fruity notes, and touches of malt and yeast. Spicy and hoppy aftertaste with floral and salty notes and touches of yeast. Decent.
MiP (20341) reviewed Saison from Brasserie Vandekelder 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, 7.3%. Farty aroma. Hazy golden colour. Stable white head. The flavour is yeasty and caramelly. Slightly spicy. Ok bitterness. Farty finish.
jefverstraete (7493) reviewed Saison from Brasserie Vandekelder 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark hazy amber colour, white foam. Dry, light bitter fruitiness, grapefruit, some spices.
mike_77 (15884) reviewed Saison from Brasserie Vandekelder 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark blond colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a good degree of malt sweetness. This is set against a mix of dusty and spicy elements from the yeast. Muted hints of funk and barnyard are there in the background but not quite prominent enough. Unusually bitter aftertaste.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Saison from Brasserie Vandekelder 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Very thick-set yellowish head over veiled orange-golden beer. Van 't putteke , rather surprising for a saison. Toast, 'hot' malts. Lightly toasted breadcrust, half-baked potatoes. Bitterish hoppy-vegetable streak; sweetness, but held in check. There is still a strange, if mild off-flavour as from something left lying too long. Vegetable, thankfully. Light to medium bodied; medium carbonation. Not really enjoyable in full.
omhper (44378) reviewed Saison from Brasserie Vandekelder 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
--Keg at Waza, Stockholm. -- Clear amber, mid sized coarse head. Bun dough, hay. Gingersnaps. Muddled. Mid bitter finish.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Saison from Brasserie Vandekelder 4 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
25/I/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: VI/2022 (2021-84)
Clear amber orange beer, big creamy bit irregular yellowish head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, some caramel, yeast character, lots of CO2, overripe fruits, some banana, phenols, banana peel, bit medicinal. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit malty first, some caramel, little sweet, then pretty bitter, a bit chemical, banana peel, spicy touch. Aftertaste: dry and bitter, yeasty, some banana, more chemical bitterness, bit of a hop burn, or is it the alcohol? Spicy, yeast, barn yard, some hay, not great, not bad.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Saison from Brasserie Vandekelder 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Brussels saison - for now - physically brewed in Ghent, not far from where I live; simple diamond-shaped label, like the other Vandekelder beers. Frothy, foamy, very thick, cobweb-lacing, eggshell-white, stable head on an initially clear orange peach blonde beer, turning cloudy and deeper amberish with sediment. Aroma of cooked cotton cloth, damp straw, old potatoes, soggy old bread, coriander powder, carrot soup, raw beetroot, considerable DMS (overcooked Brussels sprouts), apple peel, minerals, clove, 'cooked soup meat' (probably just the old 4-vinyl-guaiacol). Estery onset, sweetish fruitiness of ripe apricot, red apple and a light hint at banana, lively and minerally carbonation - a bit stingy even; supple body, reminiscent of soaking wet Betterfood cookies, soggy old sandwiches and raw cereals, leading to a more herbal finish bringing thyme and clove aspects, while the unavoidable DMS returns retronasally; a grassy hop bitter note does appear, but the clove-like phenolic effects are equally strong and the whole gets bogged down in overt yeastiness (a bit 'dirty' even), 'soupy' vegetable effects and dull malty breadiness. An unexpectedly long, leafy and very earthy hop bitterness does extend things beyond that, but needs more elegance to fully flourish - this whole beer feels 'dirty' and soupy, which in my book is not a good thing at all. This is not a successful saison for me, not even in the original, traditional Walloon sense of the word - sorry guys!