Imported from my RateBeer account as Leste Saison (by Brouwerij Leste):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

10/XII/17 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: I/2020 (2017-2190) Thanks to Jerre for the bottle!

Clear orange beer, big creamy white head, very stable, bit adhesive, lots of foam. Aroma: very yeasty, orange peel, spicy, dusty, coriander. MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: spicy start, dusty, quite some banana, lots of coriander, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: bit spicy, bitter, malty touch, some caramel, banana, sweet touch.

28/07/2017 @home - 33cl bottle shared by jerre. Light yellow with soapy foam. Nose is spicy, malts, bitter touch. Taste is malts, spices, stiscky sweet honey touch, light bitter. Too sweet for a saison but not a bad beer.

Bottle bought at Kevin Devos’ beer shop near Antwerp. Tightly membranous lacing, off-white, stable, medium thick head showing some gaps minutes after pouring but retaining very well, over a more or less clear ’old gold’-coloured beer with slightly khaki tinge. Expressive, sweet and, frankly, fascinating but very un-saison-like aroma of canned peach slices, melting powder sugar, marmelade, lots of pear, honey and even a ton of mead, fresh camomile flowers, overripe pineapple, pancakes, marzipan, white bread dough, subtler hints of raw cauliflower (not DMS), vanilla ice cream, mangosteen flesh, chalk and old orange juice. Crisp, fruity onset, pear- and pineapple-like esteriness but low in banana isoamylacetate, green plum-like sourishness surrounding it and bringing perfect balance, fizzy and somewhat harsh carbonation, minerally and numbing at first, too much so even for this quenching-intended style, souring too much and distracting from the actual flavours; sufficiently ’filling’ mouthfeel with a very, very subtle metallic note somewhere. Cereally, very lightly bready pale malt sweetishness ensues with slightly phenolic side notes, leading to a refreshing finish of ongoing juicy malts superseded by floral, slightly peppery and even somewhat citrus peel-like hop bitterness which dries the tail to a sufficient extent; malt and ’fruity ester’ juiciness underlie this and the hop bitterness, in all, remains fairly limited and soft even for a saison. Alcohol remains as good as perfectly hidden. Weird little beer, this, aspiring to become a true saison one day I reckon, but missing the point there: I suspect adding the fancy farmhouse word ’saison’ to your label is an attempt at drawing commercial attention even within Belgium, but this is as much a saison as Rochefort 10 is a barley wine: only qualifying if you ignore the specific technical requirements of the style and want to capture its ’spirit’ in an abstract way. This saison spirit has not really been captured here in my opinion, this beer lacks the quenching dryness, elegantly rural character and subtly ’earthy’ and floral aspects I tend to associate with the style, leaving us with the conclusion that this is a typical Belgian blonde, aimed at the sweet-toothed larger audience. In that respect, however, this does stand out a bit, because of its unexpected ripe peach-, orange- and pineapple-like aromatic qualities, suggesting more sweetness in the mouth than is actually the case. In more than one respect, this is a beer that will put you on a wrong track, but in a clever kind of way. Just do not expect a traditional saison.

Bottle. Pours clear blonde. Big foam and rather much visible carbonation. Smell is dry, fresh bitter touch. Taste is sharp, bit bitter. Most of the taste is lost due to extreme overcarbonation. a mild citrussy touch, some yeastyness. mild bitter finish.