Dupont Avec les Bons Voeux

Brewed by Brasserie Dupont
Style: Saison
Tourpes-Leuze, Belgium

bottle Pours a hazy yellow with a huge white head. Good head retention. Notes of lemon, earth, dust, funk, cheese, dough, pear. Complex. Awesome beer. neat stuff. A big bodied world class saison.

Paired with Thanksgiving dinner. Pours a hazy dark yellow with a thick white head. Aroma is an awesome blend of funky, earth, horse blanket, tart sour apple. Smooth malt body with touches of citrus. An outstanding brew that I was surprised I never rated.

Smells of light malts and heavy yeast smell. A bit peaky, but not quite citrusy. Very opaque, lots of thick particulates, very light orangy, lots of head at first. Tastes the same as it smells, light-medium malts, lots of yeast in the taste. Palate is also affected a lot by yeast, very fizzy and warm bubbles in the mouth. It’s almost too much, but the yeast flavour binds it all together, sort of. A pretty nice beer, but almost too much fanciness, or maybe because I’m new to saisons.

Bottle. Poured a deep gold with a thick white head. Aroma was full of yeasty, floral and fruity notes. Flavor is well balanced with the notes listed above, as well as a bit of sourness.

From the Bottle at the Falling Rock Tap House, Denver 26/09/2009 Some malt aroma. Golden coloured and a little hazy in appearance. Bready and strong in alcohol with a crisp slightly dry and bitter malt finish.

Very musky saison beer. A highpoint in all saison-brews, at least in my book. This has all it needs: dryness, muskyness, sourness and it’s refreshing like nothing else! An awesome beer, deserves the 100 percentile, definately!

750. Huge rocky head with the definitiion of ’lacing’ happening. Nose is peppery yeast, pears, a little watermelon and a slight funkiness (like prosciutto/melon balls), wrapped up in some booze. Taste is the nose, a touch of tart sourness and, IMO, the heat playing prominently in the finish,, taking away from some of the delicate spiciness the nose promises. Good stuff - not as complex, refreshing and wonderful as their "normal" saison, but good stuff nonetheless.

750 ml bottle from Jonathan Ron. Poured a cloudy honey golden brown body sitting underneath one of the most impressive heads I’ve seen in a long time. The head was a large fluffy bright white that left giant dollops of marshmellow sized lace on the side of my Hennepin glass that would drop into the body as I rotated my glass after each sip. The aroma had lots of pepper, flowers and bread about it with some underlying honey and citrus fruits. Medium bodied with small bubbly champagne like carbonation and a finsih that is so dry it actually dried out the top half of my throat. Flavors of dried out flowers, bread, pepper, thym and citrus. Nice but I think I prefer the regular ole Saison Dupont more.