6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle 330ml. @ home. [ As Caulier 28 Saison ].Unclear - hazy medium to light yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, white head. Aroma is light malty, wheat, moderate yeasty, witbier yeast, citrus - lemon, light spicy. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, fruity yeast, witbier yeast, citrus - lemon, spicy - coriander, refreshing. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180329] 6-3-6-3-12

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at the 11th Brugge beer Festival, Brugge, Belgium. A hazy golden coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Orange, lemon, yeasty, spice aroma. Tastes very Belgian, lemon, yeasty, spice. Decent Saison.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ Pre-Pils-Festival, Odense. Pours Hazy yellow with a White head. Spicy yeast, Esters. Orange. Quite sweet with a dry bitter finish. Warming

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Dunkbar Pilsnerfestival Pre-tasting. Hazy pale golden with a lasting white head. Fruity aroma of peach and pineapple with a spicy touch of black pepper. Sweetish fruity and spicy flavour

8

Tropisch fruit zoals papaya is goed aanwezig. Verrassend lekker. Laag alcoholgehalte maar stevige indruk.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from the big Delhaize supermarket in Waasland Shopping Center in Sint-Niklaas. Tightly 'membranously' lacing, snow white, medium thick head, a moussy rim with a pattern of wafer-thin islands in the middle, residing over a lightly hazy yellow-straw blonde beer with somewhat olive greenish hue. Aroma of both ripe and green bananas, sweetbread, green apple, pear, freshly cut grass, gypsum, unripe pineapple, something faintly stale urine-like, feta cheese, white bread dough, phenolic hint of anise, perhaps even very vague peppermint leaves, freshly cut raw white cabbage, sweetclover, hints of yellow grapefruit zest, unpickled gherkins, raw sweet white onions, bath soap, celery, raw parsnip. Spritzy, fruity yet dry onset, some banana ester, hints of unripe pineapple and green pear, subtle in its sweetness, light sourish edge, minerally carbonation, supple mouthfeel. Cereally malt body with 'white' bready accent and quite a lot of 'wheat soapiness', but still on the dry and sharpish side, with ongoing restrained fruitiness and some phenolic hints here and there; minerally notes are strong here and stick to the palate all the way through but the soapiness prevails. Ends juicy, quenching and relatively clean for the intended style; grassy hop bitterishness is there, but fairly mildly so, with a (too) subtle dash of zestiness thrown in for good measure. Quite refreshing, with that subtle parsnip-like earthiness and unripe pineapple-like sweetishness continuing well into the throat, with a vaguely chalky accent somewhere. Altogether a fairly 'different' beer, not just your ordinary sweet, banana ester-ridden, coriandered Belgian blonde, but spicy in a mild and accessible way, very supple and fairly dry in its general profile - though this dryness would certainly benefit from a 'deeper', more earthy or more exuberantly floral hop bitterness, especially in view of the fact that the aim was 'saison' here - whatever that may mean these days now that Belgian brewers with above average ambitions are basically collectively replacing their 'blondes' with 'saisons' while making essentially the same thing. By itself nothing spectacular, a bit too clean for what it wants to be, finishing a bit thin and short, but not a bad effort. And as for that 'saison' moniker: needs more old European noble hopping and more rural, yeasty earthiness. At least that is what I have come to understand from 'saison' after having been familiar with the term for fifteen-odd years (nobody ever heard of it in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium back then).

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

At the Caulier 28 bar Brussels Central station. Hazy gold colour lasting white head. A little soapy saison. Herb lemon. Soap settles down to a herby element. Its fairly drinkable. Thick in mouth. Some lemon acidity which is attractive. Odd but fine nice herb and some bitterness on the finish.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

F: big, snow-white, good retention. C: yellow blonde, hazy. A: malt, citrus, lemon grass, hint of spicy, floral, yeast. T: malt, spicy, lemon, floral, light soapy, yeast, grassy, peppery, good but not as great one, medium body, medium carbonation, 33cl bottle from Spar supermarket in Oostende.

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Degustation at the source. Hazy pale yellow color. Peppery straw aroma. Taste is dusty lemon.