7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Saison from this young and small Walloon microbrewery, a one-off created for the BXL Beerfest 2020, which never took place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Huge, inches thick, foamy, audibly crackling, egg-white, thickly cobweb-lacing head, slowly diminishing over a misty straw blonde beer with warm golden hue and lots of fierce sparkling. Aroma – after the sting of carbon dioxide has faded – of freshly cut green Granny Smith apples, dry hay, Conference pear, dry white bread, raw parsnip, old dry lemon zest, unripe banana, dried thyme, gypsum, dry earth, hint of soap. Crisp, very fizzy onset, green banana, green apple and green pear notes with subdued sweetness and lots of minerality from the carbonation; supple, soft mouthfeel, dryish, nice white bread crumb-like malt character with slight soapy edges as well as ongoing minerality. Spicy effects in the finish, thyme, lemon zest, lemonbalm, chamomile – alongside of and intertwined with a drying, grassy hop bitterness, spicing up a soft bready yeastiness and maltiness. Crisp, quenching, technically flawless but ‘traditionally made’ saison and in that sense perhaps the least surprising beer from the six bottles BXL Beerfest pack, but at the same time very correctly made and very well balanced, focused on its own character (saison in this case) more than other Nectar Bohème beers I had; at the same time a typical Nectar Bohème brew and perhaps one of their best so far. Enjoyed it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2020
at 15:03