33cl bottle. A clear amber beer with a off-white head. Aroma of caramel, riped fruits, yeast. Taste of riped orange fruits, caramel, toffee, some herbal malt and yeast.

Bottle. Golden color. Soft vinous, citric aroma with a hint of salt. Dry floral citric flavor with bitter walnuts and vegetable notes. Very interesting beer.

Bottle shared at Little Delirium, Amsterdam CS. Cloudy orange with a big white head. Aroma of yeast, herbal notes, citrus, green herbal hops, light spice and light fruit. Flavour is moderate sweet and above moderate bitter. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.

Golden color with a huge white head, good retention. Aroma is yeasty with floral notes. Flavor is light bittery, citrus hints with a high presence of yeast. High carbonation.

0,33l bottle at home. BB 02/2017. golden clear shiny color, light particles, rather big white head. smells of belgian yeast, light funk, citric, spices, light leather, ripe fruits. nice smell. full body, soft carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes citric, herbal, spices, lightly yeasty, some ripe fruits, lemon grass, peppery. finishes dry and light to medium bitter with herbal notes, light funk and some lemon grass. rather nice one, has a quite peppery / spicy / bitter feel to it. good balance.

330 ml bottle, bb 2/2017. Thanks to my EU Secret Summer Santa MonsterMagnet!
Amber, hazy body, with a big, frothy, lacing, light beige head.
Aroma of sparkling wine, lemongrass, citrus, some spices, slight barnyard.
Tastes dry, of lemon zest, lemongrass, peppery spices, sparkling wine, grass, some dough, some sweet bread, some sweet fruits, subtle pine.
Medium, a bit creamy mouthfeel, with a quite fizzy carbonation.
Finishes bone dry, bitter, zesty, yeasty, spicy, a bit piney, subtly sweet, subtly alcohol warming.

Very nice. Dry, hoppy and spicy, with the champagne yeast well integrated, just providing some more crispness and fizziness. Overall not an outstanding style example maybe, but very well drinkable and characterful.

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a huge white head. Aroma is citrusy and champagne yeasty. Dry, estery and fruity. Smooth fruity. Dry, herbal. Bitter and mild herbal fruity finish.

Older bottle generously donated by the proprietor of Het Haasken, a beer pub in Diest, in October last year; this proprietor knows the BIIR brewer personally, apparently, hence the donation, thanks man! Thickly ’papery’ lacing, moussy, stable, beaten egg-coloured head over a clear orange blonde beer with tiny bits of dead yeast and protein flakes floating around throughout; turns misty and more deeply ’golden orange’ with deposit. Rustic aroma of green banana, fried egg (the proteins!), jute, straw, orange peel, apricot, cava, freshly cut potato, white pepper, dusty cellar and dry haystack, celery, baker’s yeast and even bread dough, chamomille and other field flowers, dried grass, wry grape peel, raw rhubarb (acetaldehyde), some more subtle impressions of raw carrot, dried mango, wet paper. Crisp, mildly estery onset combining very restrained green banana, unripe peach and green plum sweetishness with gooseberry sourishness, sparkling carbo but not overcarbonated (and by no means champagne-like), slick and supple malt body, elementary pale malt sweetishness with a caramelly and eventually very softly bittering toasted edge, some clove-like phenols retronasally along with floral and leafy hops, leaving a drying, thoroughly but not harshly bittering, earthy, lightly spicy and even somewhat tonic-water like finish, enough to counterbalance the basic, subdued sweetishness of the onset; yeasty earthiness remains a long lasting impression, including some yeast bitterness, but the hops are, in all, well dosed here. Pleasant beer, with the ’crispness’, quenching and drying effects and frothy head stability one can expect from a saison; contrary to some of these new Belgian saisons, this one hits the right spot to qualify as such. Perhaps a tad too old already, but perfectly satisfying, bittering and to the point, though the champagne yeast factor completely escapes me, apart from a few - thinly - vinous hints in the nose. Could have been just as good without it I think but whatever: nice find, cheers to Haasken!

330ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, brass to amber colour with average, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Floral hoppy and slightly spicy yeasty aroma, hints of quince, white pepper, coriander. Taste is dry, minimally soapy and bitter hoppy, slightly grainy and bready malty basis with subtle sweetness, peppery yeasty spiciness with hints of white pepper, coriander, a touch of quince; bitter soapy finish.