Millie Strong Saison
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Imperial Saison Special Out of Production|
Score
7.03
|
|
Sign up to add a tick or review
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Millie Strong Saison from Brouwbar 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Brouwbar - many thanks, Benjamin & Jolien! About time we opened this one, as it's already been a while since the spot closed and we miss it to this day. Hazy dark amber-brown, stable, frothy, tan head. Aroma of ripe red grape, red apple, pink grapefruit peel, orange zest, tea leaves, gin, blood orange, rusk, dry biscuit. Taste has sweetish unripe orange, peach & apricot in a bready, biscuity, bit rusk-like malt body; bitter pink grapefruit, herbal tea notes and spices in the middle. Bitter & dry, peppery & grapefruity hops in the finish, lingering orange zest, herbal tea and warming gin-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Expressive and - apart from any style discussion - quite tasty; happy to have another bottle for later consumption. Congratulations again for Millie and forever cheers to Brouwbar!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Millie Strong Saison from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
1/IV/23 - on tap @ Brouwbar, BB: n/a (2023-283)
Pretty cloudy beige brown beer, creamy dense off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: rather hoppy, tropical fruits, a bit spicy, funky, a little floral. MF: lively carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very hoppy, very bitter from the start, quite some alcohol, a bit spicy, some banana, fruity touch. Aftertaste: very bitter, hoppy, a bit resinous, grassy, malty touch, a bit piny, decent, alcohol, is pretty hidden, some floral notes, a little soapy in the finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Millie Strong Saison from Brouwbar 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
New strong saison by Brouwbar celebrating the birth of Millie, the brewing couple’s first daughter and a new companion to Remi, to whom a barleywine has already been dedicated in 2019. I guess like that beer, the intention here too is to keep samples aside for many years to come – at least until Millie has reached an age at which she can legally drink alcohol. Too bad that at that time, she will never know what it tasted like when fresh, so I will do my best to describe it as detailed as possible here… Irregularly edged, eggshell-white, moussy, stable head, hazy peach blonde robe with deep beige-ish tinge. Aroma of dried orange peel, white bread dough, almond, red apple slices, moist white pepper, gin, almond, unripe peach, dry earth, hints of milk, grass, white rum and petrichor. Fizzy onset with minerally effects, pleasantly elegant fruity notes of green melon, unripe banana, some peach and a touch pineapple; sourish orange peel-like touch too, all continuing restrainedly through a smooth white-bready malt core, some slight diacetyl (buttermilk) here and there but not disturbing (to me) at all. Quite hoppy in the finish, with zesty orange peel notes and returning melon and even apricot aromas; the bitterness is however gentle and lingers silently, floating on a glow of wodka-ish alcohol. Ends perhaps just a tad too boozy, but at this strength, this is nothing to be surprised about and some ageing will definitely shave that off too; apart from some spicy and earthy elements from the saison yeast, it is harder to taste a strong saison in this one than it is in e.g. Moinette or Bons Voeux, but then those two are made by the brewery most inherently associated with the style (Dupont) and I guess it will always be a challenge to match that if one does not simply want to imitate. Difficult to classify, in all, something tripel-ish with light double IPA-like aspects may perhaps describe the content better than ‘strong saison’; a tasty sipping beer, in any case, which will be very interesting to see evolving over the coming years. Big cheers to Millie, in any case!