Saison de Mai
Brasserie Saint-Monon in Ambly, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Imperial Saison Special|
Score
6.89
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Murky orange brown with a hazy waves near the off white head. The aroma is a sweet spice, fruit, and yeast. Taste is sweet caramel with a bite of spice and vegginess. Finish is gritty on the tongue but dry and pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2008
at 13:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle 33 cl) Hazy, amber golden with a dense, off-white head leaving some lacework. Very spicy aroma - basil? Quite a full body with sweetish, fruity notes, caramel and spices with a subdued hop bitterness. Quite interesting. 180907
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2007
at 12:22
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a white head. Yeasty nose, slight bitter hops aroma. Flavour is caramel sweet with a slight yeast flavour and some spice note. Dry spiced finish with a persisting yeast flavour, presumably so dominant because the bottle has been slight stirred.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2007
at 15:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cloudy golden color; creamy head. Soma aroma of malt, candi sugar, sweet caramel, butter, some alcohol. Good body structure, with good malt flavor, sweet, and a clear fudge touch too; distinctive and very good Strong Belgian Ale.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2007
at 11:42
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle Murky orange-amber body. Ecru-yellow, creamy head. Very nice and quite intense aroma of smoke, flowers, hops, citrus, american hops, caramel malts, ... great! Moderately bitter, lightly sweet initial flavour. A little bit sweeter in the end. Flavour of caramel, fruits, flowers and some spices. Very nicely well balanced flavour with a decent complexity. Although maybe somewhat too strong for a saison, it is very lovely. I really like this one. Maybe not the greatest or most complex one, but it’s great in balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2007
at 17:23
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Cloudy orange, big creamy eggshell head. Sunbaked clay, peaches and fresh herbs. Light yet chewy body. Fruity base, bready, sweet - the woodruff shines through now and then. Hides strength very well - drinkable like soda. Bready aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2006
at 13:55
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Hazy nut brown colour, small off white head. Aroma of barnyard, some alcohol, hops and yeast. Flavour is alcohol, sweet fruity malts, hops and some notes of yeast. Not that much barnyard in flavour in this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2006
at 10:37
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled (BB 12/2007)
Hazy nut, amber brown, lively carbonation. Huge creamy head. Fruity, yeasty - typical saison nose. Medium-bodied, crisp. Flavor is mainly fruity (grapes, figs) with alcoholic punch and chocolaty notes. (7/4/7/3/14 3.5)
Re-rated, bottled (BB 05/2007)
Hazy orangy - dark brown color, a creamy white head. A bit barnyardish, fruity aroma. Medium-bodied. Sweetish, some toffee, woody notes, alcohol picks up in the finish. Quite sweet, not very typical saison. (5/3/6/3/12 2.9)
Hazy nut, amber brown, lively carbonation. Huge creamy head. Fruity, yeasty - typical saison nose. Medium-bodied, crisp. Flavor is mainly fruity (grapes, figs) with alcoholic punch and chocolaty notes. (7/4/7/3/14 3.5)
Re-rated, bottled (BB 05/2007)
Hazy orangy - dark brown color, a creamy white head. A bit barnyardish, fruity aroma. Medium-bodied. Sweetish, some toffee, woody notes, alcohol picks up in the finish. Quite sweet, not very typical saison. (5/3/6/3/12 2.9)
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2005
at 09:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Amber, totally clear; huge, yellowish head. Citrus, slight caramel, faint herbal nose. Taste is caramel, toffee, and 'rather' sweet. Retronasal alcohol and faint herbs. Rather well-bodied. Far too sweet IMO. Saison is becoming a name that sells. God knows what a farm Saison brewer would think of this.
Tried
on 04 Mar 2004
at 14:21