Kerel Yuzu Saison - BDay Edition
VBDCK Brewery in Tielrode, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Special|
Score
6.84
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Saison with honey and yuzu
5 years ago, we started a family adventure. Now, we’re still here - and here to stay. But we’re not sitting still. We just released the 3rd organic beer of the KEREL family: Yuzu Saison.
Cheers to 5 years!
5 years ago, we started a family adventure. Now, we’re still here - and here to stay. But we’re not sitting still. We just released the 3rd organic beer of the KEREL family: Yuzu Saison.
Cheers to 5 years!
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7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
The third organic Kerel beer, a saison with honey and yuzu, the Japanese citrus fruit one encounters more often in craft beer than as real fruit in these parts of the world; created to celebrate the five years of existence of the VBDCK brewery. From the familiar stubby bottle, now with spring green label. Thick and foamy, egg-white, regular, pillowy, dense head, sustained by a true 'storm' of champagne-like sparkling raging through a metallic golden blonde beer with 'old golden' hue, crystal clear at first but misty and a tad apricot-tinged further on still with a whirlwind of sparkling - in any case looking quite festive with its champenoise bubbles. Aroma of dry white bread, Graham crackers, grapefruit zest and orange pith which I assume represents the yuzu, dried green apple slices, jute rope, old cotton cloth, dried field flowers from a herbarium, cava, straw, grass, pumice and something faintly metallic (iron). Crisp onset, spritzy with very minerally carbonation (calcium-like), restrained fruitiness with hints at green pear and unripe banana, only very vaguely sweetish; supple, slick body, sweetish cereally and white-bready malts with a slight metallic touch and grainy edges, subtly enlivened by a light touch of bitterish citrus zest and pleasant floral hops (field flowers and meadow grass), ending with lingering sweetish breadiness from the yeast and accompanying, persisting hop bitterness, creating dryness. The yuzu element remains very subdued here - I was expecting a bright wave of crisp citrus but got only a vague ripple; the basis is pleasant enough, though, a dry and bready saison with floral and quenching character. Not nearly as remarkable and colourful as it could have been (and, perhaps, should have been for a celebration beer), but technically correct and easily drinkable.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2022
at 09:50