Can at Zum Franziskaner. Hazy golden with a white head. Yeast, sme spices, grass, citrus and grain. Dry finish.

33cl can from Rob the Gourmets’ Market in Brussels. F: medium, white, quick gone. C: straw, blonde, hazy. A: malty, hay, floral, bit citrus, dusty, bit bready, spicy, honey touch. T: medium malty base, green banana, dusty, mineral touch, bready, quite dry on the palate, long lasting bitterness, bit orange, nice balanced beer if not typical for the style, enjoyed for sure.

0,33l from can. BB 15.07.2022. Yellow hazy color, small white head. Smells bready, grassy, citric, Belgian yeasty. Very nice smell. Medium to full body, soft carbonation. Tastes bready, grassy, citric, Belgian yeasty, leathery, peppery. Finishes medium bitter with notes of grass, citrus and some leathery notes.

8,4,7, 3,16

Another one from this brand new (2020) microbrewery in Schaerbeek (Brussels), Brasserie de la Mule, primarily dedicated to introducing German style beers to the Belgian market - but in this case deviating from that premise and offering a good old saison. Towering high, foamy, egg-white, busily cobweb-lacing, very frothy and stable head on an initially clear, pale straw blonde beer with deeper golden tinge and almost champagne-like, fierce sparkling throughout; misty with sediment. Aroma of halfripe banana, unsugared chewing gum, white bread, fresh chamomile and sweetclover blossoming, Conference pear, honey, white soap (the wheat talking), cooked parsnip, hints of moist cinnamon powder, lilies and plaster. Very crisp onset, sharply carbonated, stinging and distracting from the flavour a bit with lots of minerality; underneath sits a restrainedly sweetish fruitiness of green banana and unripe pear but not the array of esters one would expect from a saison. Supple, smooth body, pale malt sweetishness, quite grainy but with a softening white-bready core, dry and well-attenuated, with this unripe fruitiness on top alongside some phenolic spiciness and subtly sourish wheatiness below; a chalky and soapy note lingers in the finish, overruled by a very confident, leafy, quinine-like hop bitterness offering retronasal floral and grassy effects too - and accentuating the already dry character of this beer. Basically a very dry blonde, lacking a bit in Belgian yeast fruitiness and spiciness to truly qualify as a saison, but in any case very quenching and technically well executed. If this kind of sleekness and 'minimalism' reaches the Kölsch, the Alt and the Helles this brewery has planned for their next creations, then I'm in.