bottiglia 33 cl, bel cappello di schiuma bianca pannosa persistente, colore arancio torbido, al naso classico aroma Saison luppoli spezie banana note erbacee e flloreali, in bocca è speziata frutta gialla banana pepe, corpo rotondo, carbonazione forte, lieve astringenza, dolce con amaro erbaceo accentuato lungo nel finale, media secchezza. Molto buona. Qualità Dupont c. Birraland.it 31.05.26

Can picked up from Beyond Beer webshop, Hamburg and consumed at home Saturday 11th April 2026, sat at the top of the garden on our swinging seat after a hard but enjoyable day of gardening, sunny today, lovely weather. We have Chicken Jalfrezi and Mushroom Fried Rice for tea. Pours pale yellow/gold with a mid/large clean white head. Nice yeastiness on the nose, some fruitiness also a touch floral. Light sweetness, there's a grassy bitter bite, dry throughout, fruity in the mouth, mostly citrus with lemon and grapefruit notes, dry finish, v.good, Score: 7.6

A murky and golden beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has fruitness, mango, citrus, some flowers. Taste has fruitness, mango, flowers, spicyness, aromatic. Medium bodied. Very good beer, aromatic.

Canned version of Dupont's classic dry-hopped saison - but other than the packaging, I see no difference with the classic bottled Saison Dupont Cuvée Dry Hopping (the Styrian Wolf version, which was launched in 2018 and is the one still existing today), so I wonder if there is any difference in the beer itself at all... I think this canned version - imagine Dupont selling beer in cans only ten years ago, but that aside - should therefore be aliased to the bottled version in spite of the radically different packaging and the subtly different name, but just to be on the safe side as this is an important brewery to me, I will rate this one as if I never encountered the bottled version ever before in my life, stubbornly ignoring the fact that I had every variant of the bottled version that was ever made. Can from the Jumbo supermarket in Ghent - I believe. Medium thick, snow white, quite even-bubbled, busily shred-lacing, very firm head, hops-enhanced perhaps but of course the head on even a regular Saison Dupont is notoriously stable; warm apricot-blonde robe with 'old golden' glow, some disparate but enthusiastic strings of sparkling and minute, translucent dots of yeast in suspension - but very diffusely so; shifts to a hazy peach blonde with 'dirty' beige shade in the very end. Aroma of dry biscuit, green banana, dried out white bread, lightly toasted onion, touch farmland, wet straw, raw turnip, moist white pepper, grapefruit zest, wormwood, wet sandstone, chamomile, sweetclover, bitter honey, grass, paprika powder touch, cooked parsnip, braised celeriac, something very thinly perfumey faraway in the background (almost like some expensive men's perfume - but extremely volatile and very hard to pinpoint). Crisp onset, the familiar 'yellow-green' fruitiness of that unique Dupont yeast strain bringing elements of green pear, unripe banana and apple peel, lively carbonated with a vivid minerality running underneath a smooth bread-crusty maltiness, dry yet rounded, with yeasty effects on top (clove) but quickly superseded by the hops, depositing a thick layer of spicy, leafy bitterness onto it all, with wormwoody tail, drying the finish - where nevertheless these archetypical Dupont yeast features of green banana, white pepper and clove keep lingering. Grassy, peppery and dried citrus peel-like hop bitterness, however, gets the last word - but only in the very end. A lot happens here, perhaps not in an overly showy way, because that is not the approach Dupont needs (or aspires) anyway, but in an elegantly entertaining way, as if listening to a Haydn symphony - still ending with a characterful, even powerful finale. It has, alas, been too long since I had the bottled dry-hopped Dupont Saison but I do remember it as a masterpiece in Walloon style brewing, if I may say so, and this one does the same from a vessel still regarded by the average - even beer-loving - Belgian as inferior. This only demonstrates how much imagery and prejudice influences our experience of flavour, I guess - this is simply classic Dupont saison quality to me, all things considered, though I do have the impression that the hop bitterness as such has become a bit more harsh and the aroma a bit less expressive in comparison with the bottled one. But that could easily be just my memory deceiving me.