S58 Sour Saison
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Sour Saison Spring|
Score
7.09
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed S58 Sour Saison from Brouwbar 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
30 May 2021. At Brouwbar; cheers to Anke & Ama Deke! Clear dark golden, stable, foamy, white head. Aroma of dill, rosemary, thyme perhaps, 'bouquet garni' in a way, lemon zest, kiwi, lime, unripe orange. Taste has sweetish apple, pear and vague peach, sour kiwi next to lemon & lime, pairing well with a sourdough-like maltiness, bit clove-like spicy. Grassy hoppy & zesty finish, more spices, wheat and sour fruit. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Rounded beer yet remaining subtle, decent.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed S58 Sour Saison from Brouwbar 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
15/IV/21 - 33cl bottle form the brewery, shared @ home, BB: 10/IX/21 (2021-289)
Clear amber orange beer, big irregular aery head, unstable, falls down quickly, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very funky, sourish impression, fruity notes, bit lemony. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit malty, gentle acidity, quite fruity, some apricots and unripe peaches, juicy touch, nice acidity, very refreshing character, soft bitterness, some tannins maybe? Aftertaste: dry yet fruity finish, good bitterness, grapes, bit spicy, yeasty touch.
Paired nicely with a big pan of shakshuka!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed S58 Sour Saison from Brouwbar 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5
One of several new Brouwbar beers, a sour saison. Off-white, thick but uneven-bubbled and slowly breaking head on a cloudy peach blonde beer with somewhat bronze-ish tinge. Aroma of overripe pineapple, pear juice, dried flowers, soggy rusk, apple peel, dust, a whiff of strawberry, yoghurt, clove, bread crust, violets. Sweetish fruity onset but in a clean and slender way, hints of pear, pineapple and strawberry with a distant hint at guava, and indeed a refreshing, light and elegant sourish streak running throughout, gently lactic, reminiscent of sour berries but remaining subtle and mild, always subordinate to a sweeter main flavour; supple, medium carbonated mouthfeel – carbonation actually being on the soft side for a farmhouse ale. Soggy rusk- and bread-like malt body, graced by phenolic spicy accents towards the end (clove) and a soft, floral, slightly tropical-fruity hoppiness which provides only very light end bitterness; the sourish element as well as some breadiness linger in the end. Light-footed, almost ‘feminine’ summery little beer, graceful and easygoing, with all the parameters remaining light and ‘soft’: softly carbonated, softly sour and softly hop bitter, perhaps a bit too softly so in all those three aspects. I do get the general idea of creating a simple yet elegant quencher, though, and in that sense this brew qualifies.