Erm, perfumey

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

One of two beers from a new contract brewery, erected by two hobby brewers in Ghent (Sint-Amandsberg to be precise). Stumbled upon this beer ‘by accident’ at café Afsnis in Ghent, where the beer menu has shifted from boring to interesting a few years ago… Medium thick, snow white, mousy, slowly opening head, hazy pale orange-tinged peach blonde robe. Aroma of peach, melting caramel, white bread, honey, halfripe banana, red apple peel, rainwater, (strangely) raw cauliflower and very vague background DMS, sweaty note. Fruity, moderately estery onset, peach and light banana, very crisp and stinging carbonation (somewhat painfully numbing even) with very pronounced minerally effects; light sourish undertone, smooth bready and very lightly caramelly malt body, residual honeyish sweetness but not too much so. Peachy fruitiness lingers in the finish along with phenolic spicy notes, a weird and doubtlessly unintended sweaty-funky note and a gentle, floral hop bitterness. Drinkable alright, but not free of off-flavours (however mild) and lacking in drying, noble hop bitterness to fully qualify as a ‘saison’ in my book, there is still some finetuning to be done here, I think.