Sampled @ RBBSG 2017. Dark orange to reddish color, full sized rough off-white head. Smell and taste some fruit, some caramel, some pineapple, dry, bitter. Average to medium body and carbonation. Drinkable, but not a black IPA at all!!

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy dark orange with a huge off white head. Aroma is toasted malty. Bitter, dry hoppy. Smooth fruity. Bitter, slight fruity. Mellow. Smooth fruity finish.

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty, slight fruity. Light herbal fruity. Bitter, slight herbal. Dry fruity finish.

Sampled @ RBBSG 2017. A bit hazy orange color, full sized off-white head, quite foamy, but lasting. Smell and taste malts, some hops, grapefruit, tart citrus peel, bitter. Decent to medium body and carbonation. Quite nice for only 4.2% ABV.

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.

At Ghent Beer Festival 2017. Hazy amber/light brown with a lasting, small, off-white head. The aroma contains hay, caramel, yeast and herbs. It tastes medium sweet and medium bitter, with a dry finish, even some alcohol popping up (which is saying something). Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Interesting balance between caramel and yeast notes, but I can’t call it a good one.

28/07/2017 @home - 33cl bottle shared by jerre. Black colour with beige foam. Nose is light roasted malts, licorice, bit caramel. Taste is roasted malts, licorice, some caramel, sweet, herbal touch.

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”. Dark amber (seriously) tanned head. Nose is poor stale old hop, herbal with overly sweet malt. Taste is soap, banana, stale old chemical hop,.. Body is caramel malt,… Poor and that is ignoring the abysmal style interpretation here, so bloody Belgian.