Baladin Wayan

Brewed by Le Baladin
Style: Saison
Piozzo, Italy

Serve in Tulip

My 2nd favorite out of the Baladin beers available to me at the time. This almost has a creamy tropical fruit nose, definitely exotic smelling with some mango, a bit of coconut, seasalt, grains of paradise, quite spicy on the palate, but well balanced, and has a nice zing of carbonation, with a wonderful creamy mouthfeel, this beer is truly a pleasure to drink.

Murky amber with a frothy head that lingers. First whiff is roasty, nutty malts, then peaches and mangos. Light carbonation with a creamy smooth mouthfeel. Good flavors of bready pale malts with lightly sweet peach and mango. Lots of subtle spicy goodness here. Enjoyed this one.

Bottle, 10th Beer @ PP Belgian Fest. Pours gold orange with a bright white head. Nose is sweet and there is a spicey kick. Tastes is sweet and spiced, decent interpretation of a saison.

Bomber of smooth drinking Belgian, neither too sweet nor bitter. Pours thick foamy orangy off-white head and orangey-white body. Above-average creamy mouthfeel. Mild yeast understated spicy aroma. At the 5.5% stated on the bottle, most drinkable

Too bad, I was excited to try this. Clear medium gold, slightly fizzy head lasted surprisingly well. Aroma was nice, lots of orange, faint coriander, a bit of ginger, inviting, even some pleasant spice. The flavor however did not match at all. Very thin in the mouth, very light note of ginger and coriander, and an abrupt, thin finish that was almost like a very mildly infected lager. Not good. I wonder if this was a bad bottle perhaps, but I can’t justify another purchase at this point.

Bottle. High fluffy but lasting white head. Hazy light yellow body. Sweet banana aroma. Light and pretty watery fruity flavor with low carbonation and a long sweet aftertaste.

golden orange pour, bright as a marching band trombone, and peppered like a plate of fetucinni with bits of grist, trub, and the scattered super nova remnants of a vast yeast colony; yet for all that flotsam, it remains almost clear. the firm head, with both the color and fidelity of a pug dog, makes a worthy crown. wayan smells like a coconut husk door mat with a peculiar straw and chaff essence; but moreover, this mat was probably used outside a downtown strip club with it’s disagreeable notes of something akin to cigarette butts and years of spilled watered-down parasol punches--strong on fruit but short on booze. it’s got a bit of ginger, damp terry towel, banana, almond, baker’s yeast, and white dutch cheese. the animated carbonation chatters away on the fore-tongue, while a gator ade kind of sweetness swims over the palate with a watery feel. wayan is a grainy ginger ale, perfumed with every bath oil extract known to womankind, with virtually no hop effect, and finally with a buzz and complexity that would bore a boweevil. big fat thanks to ME for totting this pompous burden all the way back from italy. merda, i could’ve brought another bottle of braulio instead.

UPDATED: OCT 26, 2010 Cloudy yellow with a lasting off-white head. Spicy and fruity aroma, with a good deal of coriander. Fruity and spicy dry flavour