Saison de Lente
(has 2 batches)

Bottle, 6.5%. Mild brett aroma. Cloudy yellow colour. Big stable white head. The flavour starts off with a good bitterness. Then comes a nice brett note, and then more bitterness. Nice and well-balanced.

750 ml. A pleasant surprise in its balance of brett, malts and bitterness. Hazy gold body with a huge, white, frothy head, slowly diminishing. The aroma is brettanomyces funk (barnyard and dust) and lacquer along with orange peel and lemon, toasted grain, flowers and soap. The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter and slightly tart. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet, moderately bitter and moderately tart. Medium body, creamy texture (a brett milkshake with fizz) and lively carbonation. Not as dry in the finish as it shoud be. The flavors start with lacquer and funkiness, along with some fruit that soon surrenders to a bitterness that lasts — a finish that lots of American saisons lack. Very tasty.

Bottle: Poured a hazy bright beige color ale with a medium foamy head with good retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of dry European hops with some light fruity ester. Taste is also dominated by some dry hops with a typical Belgian malt bill and some very subtle fruity ester. Body is quite full with good carbonation and no alcohol is apparent. Not too bad but additional complexity through ester or even more hops would have benefited this one.

750 ml bottle from Hollingshead Deli. Nose of corriander, nutmeg, light fruitiness, and a hint of brett. Murky yellow with a big, very pale yellow, lightly lacing head. Flavor is cloves and corriander, yeasty bread, and a tiny bit of funk and bitterness.

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of JohnC. Pours an almost clear golden with a dense and firm shaving foam style off-white head leaving laces. Spicy nose, fruit, yeast and some leathery Brett accents. Medium body, astringent and dry Brett notes with a vague underlying sweet fruitiness. Finishes dry. Quite fresh. 100709

Brown bottle, 75 cl, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savoured on August 1 2009; eye: golden, lightly hazy, slight effervescence, voluminous white head, lots of lacing; nose: yeast, wheat, coriander, light fruity, light Brettanomyces; mouth: yeast, wheat, coriander, light fruity, light Brettanomyces, finale in coriander with presence of wheat, medium body, quite carbonated, slick, fizzy; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 75 cl, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 1 août 2009; œil : dorée, légèrement voilée, très légère effervescence, mousse blanche abondante, beaucoup de dentelle; nez : levure, froment, coriandre, léger fruité, léger Brettanomyces; bouche : levure, froment, coriandre, léger fruité, léger Brettanomyces, finale en coriandre avec présence de froment, corps moyen, très carbonatée, coulante, pétillante; en résumé : bien

Courtesy of sebletitje. Pours gold with a bit of haze and nice fluffy white head to go along with lingering clingy lacing. The aroma is punchy with mild tart notes moving into some sour and some vague fruitiness in the background. The taste is much the same with mild tartness then sour berry fruitiness. It ends dry and refreshing with lingering floral and spice hops, yeasty spice, tart berry skin and fading sourness.

Pours a very clear gold with a large and lively white head. The classic barnyard aroma is there. Full mouth. Balanced, very slightly dry but no sourness. Hint of background spice and licorice finish. Nice.