Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750ml bottle from Tilquin. Dry, fruity and slightly tart with some funky yeast, loads of farmyard, hints of oak, sourness, citrus, grapefruit and earthiness. Quite nicely balanced funky saison, reminds me of the Hill Farmstead saisons.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Danish saison aged on Tilquin lambic barrels, 75 cl bottle with cork and muselet – the first of which was shot out of the bottle with a big bang as soon as the muselet was removed. A brief moment of very fierce gushing ensued, but it was fortunately brief enough to reduce the amount of loss… Towering high, very thickly ‘papier maché’-like lacing, off-white, bath foam-like head on a hazy pale straw blonde beer with khaki-ish tinge and fierce sparkling. Aroma of sharp lambic-like green plum and peach kernels, lots of dried citrus peel, green banana, dusty attic, straw, Brettanomyces-induced stale sweat and urine-like notes, unsugared yoghurt, tzatziki, fennel, moldy lemons, fermenting gooseberries, sourdough, sawdust. Crisp, estery onset, sweetish green banana and unripe pear drenched in a relatively mellow, green plum- and gooseberry-like tartness from the lambic barrel; spritzy carb, enlivening a slick, cereally, bread crust-like and wheaty-soapy malt body with a light and very dim rye touch. Bretty sweat and fermenting stonefruit notes clearly appear in the finish, adding lambic funkiness which is then tempered by a spicy, citrus peel-ish hop bitterness from the dry-hopping – making this beer end dry due to both bitterness and sourness, but both factors are well-balanced against each other. A fine modern farmhouse ale created by making clever use of a lambic element – but the lambic yeasts must have had a feast here, as opening the bottle is truly a dangerous endeavour. Could have been a bit maltier for me, but otherwise decently ‘funky’ and ‘dusty’ and in that sense feeling very Belgian, which I assume was the intention.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sampled @ Tilquin English Beer Festival 2018. A hazy yellow beer with a small white head. Aroma of mild sweet yellow fruits, pale malt, wheat. Taste of tart yellow fruits, belgian yeast, brett.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
0,15l from tap at Arrogant Sour Festival shared by Sander. light yellow cloudy color, medium big white head. smells earthy, citric, musty, peppery, grassy. nice smell. light body, soft carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes grassy, heavy spices, peppery, earthy, citric, bit musty. finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of citrus, earthy notes and spices. very nice one, quite refreshing and good to drink. 7, 4, 7, 3, 16
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as Funky Max presents Saison Vignon (by Mad Yeast):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5
5/V/18 - sampled @ Tilquin English Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2018-616) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Pretty cloudy blond beer, small creamy white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: some fake brett, smells a bit like urinals, funky. MF: very lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: artificial brett, like from a Wyeast package or something, lots of tannins, bit lemony, soapy bitterness, rather unpleasant. Aftertaste: some very bitter grapefruit, lavender notes, soapy, some citrus, don't really like this one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle - Soft funky lemon. Cloudy gold with a nice white head. Soured and sweaty notes with a light acidic finish. Very funky.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy yellowish blonde with a medium white head. Aroma reveals a nice funky yeast character, with a touch of horse blanket, and oak. Flavour reveals notes of plastic, light funky yeast, and saison yeast. Not much phenolic, plastic character, with a bitter finish. Smells good, but the taste doesn't follow through.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy and straw colour, and a thin head. There's some mellow gueuze funk, a touch of sweet malt. It's got a touch of sweet malt, a touch of wood and funk. I'm not getting much dry hop, and some floral notes. A touch of tartness. It's decent...I'd actually like more funk out of this.
