Siphon Brewing Blinker

Blinker

 

Siphon Brewing in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Farmhouse - Saison Regular
Score
6.56
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 38
To defy the Dutch blockade of the waterways here after Belgian independence, the locals of Damme dug the Leopold Canal, known locally as ‘the Blinker’.

Blinker is a dry and thirst-quenching beer made with barley and wheat malts and hopped with the earthy hop varieties, Goldings and Challenger. The lemon symbol adorning the label references not only the citrus aromas and flavours derived from our characterful yeast, but the colour of the sun and the taste of a season.

Water: Damme. Malt: pils, munich, dark wheat. Hops: Golding, Challenger. Yeast: Saison.
 

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
bottle at home ... golden .. big white foam head ... dry lemon herbal ..big lemon peel nose ...dry bitter lemon .. over fizzy dry lemon fruits .. long salty bitter lemon
Tried from Bottle on 30 Jul 2017 at 07:00

6/10
Tried from Draft at Brussels Beer Project - Dansaert on 27 Apr 2017 at 19:12

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is estery and phenolic. Slight fruity. Medium dry, estery and slight fruity. Bitter and dry estery finish.
Tried from Draft on 24 Apr 2017 at 18:28

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
At Zythos 2017 & bottle from kraddel in December 2017, many thanks! Hazy orange color with white head. Aroma is straw, some peppery yeasts, citrusy, dough. Taste is straw, bitter, grassy, earthy, dough, peppery finish. Medium carbonation. Quite nice.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Apr 2017 at 06:44

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2017. Leicht trübes goldenes Bier. Geruch trocken hopfig, hefig, helle Früchte. Geschmack ist hefig, reife Früchte, Heu. Langweilig.
Tried on 23 Apr 2017 at 04:05

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Pale blond colour. Aroma and flavour are floral and malty. Soft texture. Subtle.
Tried on 22 Apr 2017 at 16:26

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Hazy blond. Creamy perfect white head. Faint aroma, little bit of oranges. Lightly bitter flavour with floral hop touches. Well balanced. Quite OK.
Tried on 22 Apr 2017 at 13:16

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
At Zythos 2017. Pours almost clear golden. Aroma is yeasty, dirty malts, lightly herbal. Body is light, low sweetness and bitterness, lively carbonation, little flavours. a bit earthy and dirty. Okay.
Tried on 22 Apr 2017 at 12:23

4.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Hefiger Geruch. Mild hefig bananiger Antrunk. Leicht bitter, trocken, langweilig. Getreidig zum Ende. 10/8/7/7//7
Tried on 22 Apr 2017 at 09:22

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
330 ml. bottle. Bottled 06.01.2017. Much love again for nothing the bottling date. Hazy golden, creamy white head. Nose is very soapy BE yeast, lemon esters, white pepper & chemical, dishwashing liquid fizzy BE. Very fizzy ester body. Taste is big esters, chemical soap, sugar, overly BE, soap, yellow paprika raw, bit green, green paprika bitter esters,... It is a very BE ester bright fizzy brew. Bit much for me, going over into soapy but it is apply made for me. It is very highly carbonated, very big on BE stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2017 at 12:10