Very good & dense, light-yellowish head, quite stable over hazy dark-yellow beer. Spicy nose, garden herbs, creamy; grassy pale malts. Quite bitter, EU hops (over)load, spicy & herbal. 22 IBU seems low for this, even for a blonde. Finish is pretty peppery. In the end, the bitterness lessens. Creamy, velvety (oats!) MF despite good carbonation. Gristslickness. Decent blonde, not really special. I assume the Strikes have a meaning, but I haven't caught on yet. Blonde shower??? Yikes! 6/4/7/313

Bottle at home. Almost clear light golden with white head. Quite grainy with pils malts, light bread, hazelnuts. Soft spicy yeast, light fruity hops with some grass, tangerine oil, grapefruit. There’s some weird bitter dusty herbs and even veggies towards the finish. Just medium sweet and over medium bitter. Medium bodied with quite some carbonation. Not too bad, though not even beginning to come close to the De La Senne I had earlier tonight.

7 3 7 3 15Bottle at Black Smith, Zaandam. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of peppery saison yeast, citrus, lemongrass and floral notes. Flavour is above light sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.

Hazy blond with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have some floral and yeasty notes. Overall rather musty.

Sampled @ RBBSG 2017. Clear yellow color, huge foamy rough white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, dry, saison-ish indeed, yeasty, moderately bitter. Meh, don’t like it.

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow, small white head. Aroma is mild fruity, estery. High carbonation. Mild fruity. Fruity. Estery and slight bitter to herbal. Estery finish.

Bottle from the brewery, bought at their opening day. The saison in this first series of six beers from this brand, with very thickly cobweb-lacing, off-white, irregularly shaped, coarse head, clinging tightly to the edge of the glass but breaking quickly in the middle, over a lightly hazy peach blonde beer with vaguely olive greenish hue and lively string of fizz, turning into a more ochre-ish and equally cloudy peach with sediment. Aroma of ripe peach, strawberry, sugared orange juice, overripe pear, stale lime juice, withering green herbs, sourdough, tulips, hints of sour yoghurt, urine, melon, spoilt cucumber, soggy white bread, minerals. Fruity, fizzy onset, apricot, yellow plum, banana, red apple, sweetish with sourish, lime-like edges, the sourishness further accentuated by sharp carbonation but acceptable for the style. Smooth sourdough- and bread crust-like malt body with grainy sides to it, fruity esters persisting till into the finish but quite to the point for a beer intended as a saison; ends with a leafy, spicy, softly grapefruity hop bitterness on top of the juicy malt sweetness, floral and quite adequately bittering; the lime-like sourish accent from the onset lingers at the back but malt sweetness remains as well. Yeastiness is apparent as a powdery, lightly starchy impression after swallowing, with lots of retronasal spicy phenols rising up. A bit ’dirty’ perhaps, but in a saison I usually cannot be bothered by that; there is a kind of ’off’ sourishness to it as well, maybe the result of an onsetting infection, and the urine-like aspect in the nose, likely the result of old hops being used, did bother me a bit as well. Otherwise, though, this is acceptable for what it is - and like my esteemed colleagues have observed below, so far the only of these Kerel beers which can actually be called ’true to style’ to a significant extent, which cannot be said of their other beers (regardless of their quality), nor of many other new (Belgian and other) beers called saisons these days simply because the term has become fashionable under international influence.

Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Label has a Dry Hopped sticker. Pale clear golden, big solid white head. Nose is big banana, vague connection to Dupont yeast, grass, far too sweet & banana heavy. Taste is green banana, stab at Dupont style, sugar, far too sweet, soap, lacking hop,.. Body is green banana, yeast,… Too bloody sweet & banana heavy, still the most respectable beer from the 6 which we tried from the first series of this brewery.

Imported from my RateBeer account as VBDCK Kerel Saison (by VBDCK Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5

21/VII/17 - 33cl bottle with "Dry Hopped Ressurection Batch" sticker? @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 29/XII/18, brewed: II/2017 (2017-1098) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear pale blond to yellow beer, big aery unstable off-white head, dissipates quickly, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, lots of citrus, some tropical fruits and hints of citrus, smells very clean and pleasant (although a saison can smell a bit dirty). MF: lively carbon, too much, medium to light body. Taste: citrus, pretty bitter, grassy, lemon rind, bit sourish, nice one! Aftertaste: dry finish, some citrus notes, very bitter ending. This is one of the best they've put out. Now on to the stout!