Bouteille 33cl, bottled 17/10/2016. Dorée, col blanc épais très actif. Arôme au nez fin citronné, avec une touche de levure arrivant bien en rétro. N’offre pas le côte hennuyer de saison, retrouve un grains pils assez basique. Palais est de dominance sèche, très belge, houblonné noble virant sur un léger citornné et touche verte. Effervescence trop haute et qui enlève du caractère des houblons. Le tout reste monodimensionnel, centré sur les grains et un relent houblonné citronné.

Bab 2016. Thnx to Tderoeck and 77ships for sharing the beers ! Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is bit yeasty, some citrus. Taste is sharp, citrussy. Some malts. Light mf, ok carbo.

Oyster and coffee stout (first time I encounter this combination), draught sample at BBF last week, rating from memory as I apparently forgot to take notes of this one - I’m getting old. Creamy, pale beige head over a black beer, toasted bread, coffee grounds, bitter chocolate, leather, some candied fig and cloves in the nose, sweetish, rounded flavor with dried fruits in the onset, supple and smooth mouthfeel, bit oily, nutty and toasted, bittersweet with black coffee impressions and spicy hop bitter touch in the end; I do not, however, remember any saltiness from oyster shells - but then, I had a Scheldebrouwerij Oesterstout last week in more ’contemplative’ circumstances and did not really pick out saltiness of any kind, seafood or not, from that one either. In any case a pleasant stout, this Cassandra, interesting enough for me to get out and purchase a new bottle for rerating in more detail.

Thank you for sharing kraddel + tderock + Rubin77! Sampled @ Bruges Beer Festival 2017. Hazy orange, off-white head. Nose is grass, green, raw barn, low vegetables, raw grains & other grains. Body is too fizzy, yeasty. Taste is fizzy, huge plaster, yeast, chalk notes, sugar, herbal & some less pleasant other grain notes. Not a fan of this one with the chalk, yeast & vegetable notes.

F: not big, white, average retention. C: yellowish to gold, hazy. A: malt, sour, wheat, fruity, herbal. T: malt, orange peels, fruity, herbal, taste is better than the aroma, for me nothing very tasty, light body, medium carbonation, thanks to the BE RB crew for sharing beers today! Sampled @ Bruges beer festival 2017.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Siphon / Kinnegar — Rule of Three (by Siphon Brewing):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5

5/II/17 - on tap @ Brugs Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2017-127) Thanks to 77ships, kraddel and Rubin77 for sharing today's beers!

Clear pale yellow beer, big solid creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: some sulphur first, later more sweet smells, malty, fruity notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body (impressive!). Taste: little bitter, grains, bit herbal, somewhat fruity, soft bitterness. Aftertaste: dry, some almonds, grassy, bitter finish, decent beer!

Bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. The saison in this series of new Siphon beers, with very frothy, dense, foamy, egg-white head, remaining closed for most of the time and leaving a thick rim of papery lacing all around; clear and pure golden blonde robe with deeper ’old gold’ tinge. Aroma of isoamylacetate (banana-flavored bubblegum), white pepper, camomile, straw, powder sugar, sweetish cooked turnip, white bread crumbs, Granny Smith apple, raw rhubarb, green gooseberries, cheese spread or even young abbey cheese, butter, faint hints of vanilla, soap (probably the wheat), grass, pancakes, pineapple slices, whipped cream, dried wormwood and, alas, a whiff of DMS (the sulfuric smell of overcooked cabbage), something I am very sensitive to and have met all too often in - especially Belgian, I hate to admit - beers. Crisp, fruity onset, the expected banana ester of course mixed with fainter hints of sweetish melon and apricot on the one hand and sourish gooseberry and rhubarb on the other hand, highly attenuated with a sharp, very minerally carbonation effectuating further sourishness, light and coarsened, but still smooth mouthfeel, made slicker by the wheat, which identifies itself as a soft, lightly sourish ’soapiness’ in the middle along with cereal-like ’barleyness’. The banana ester continues on top of this and phenols gain a certain strength in the end, but remain subtly spicy and clove-like rather than turning medicinal or chemical. Dry finish, grainy and cereally, bit soapy, with a firm dosis of grassy, spicy and leafy hops, providing a quenching, drying, appetizing bitterness that lasts quite long over the remainders of that cereally malt sweetishness. Some phenols keep lingering in the background but elegantly so. Quenching, packed with flavor and in terms of pure flavor, not that far removed from some of Dupont’s standard ales, this is a saison ’pur sang’: dryish but still juicy, bright and foamy, crisp and rural at the same time. Siphon clearly understands what this style is all about, even though this is clearly a Saison Dupont epigone - with a tad too much of the old banana ester perhaps, but that is easily forgiven in a beer as technically correct as this one - apart from that DMS whiff, that is.