Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Saison and honey beer flavoured with coriander and pepper apparently, from a hobby brewery in Zwevegem testing the market since only recently. Thick, foamy, egg-white, very dense, fluffy, pillowy, plaster-lacing head on an initially clear, warm and pure metallic 'old golden' beer with a column of enthusiastic sparkling in the middle, turning misty and more apricot-hued further on. Aroma initially dominated by stingy carbon dioxide, but when this effect fades, impressions come along reminiscent of bread crust, pear blossoms in spring, dry spice cookies, coriander seed, banana peel, ripe apricot, macadamia nuts, honey (effectively used), sweetclover, roses even, background hints of baker's yeast, damp earth and beech leaves. Crisp, spritzy onset, sharply (over)carbonated which distracts from fruity esters in the way of ripe apricot, Durondeau pear and plantain, sweetish but not too much so, the sweetness nevertheless increasing due to brioche-bready and dry cookie-like malts, spiced by coriander seed but also with a slight metallic edge. Retronasal flowery effects of pear blossom and sweetclover, paired with a slender, elegant floral hop bitterness, which remains relatively brief and, for a saison at least, too restrained. Lingering honeyish, fruity and malty sweetness along with these spicy notes (the coriander becoming quite soapy in the end and the pepper being discernible yet gently so). In all, quite elegant and light-footed, fit for a beautiful spring day like today, but the 'saison' moniker has clearly been used mainly for commercial reasons here, as is the case with so many other contemporary Belgian blondes; a sweet, mildly spicy, flowery, summery blonde rather than a true saison, but not the worst I had in that segment.