Dupont Avec les Bons Voeux

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

Poured a volcanically effervescent golden with a large frothy white head. Aroma of sweet flowers, grapes, some dry alcohol. Flavor is quite strong... lots of floral sweetness coming through, alcohol, a touch of sweet cream, some herbal hoppiness. Body was not as fizzy as I thought it might be given the effervescence, but I would attribute that to the beer’s strength. It drinks and tastes like a big beer. But good, complex, and would go well with a nice cheese.

On tap @ hopleaf. Cloudly yellow with a white head. Citrusy, yeasty, spicy aroma. Taste is lemon citrus, vanilla, yeasty, with some spice and some bitterness towards the finish. The difference is negligible between this and the Dupont Saison. This one is twice as alcoholic? 3.9 overall

750ml bottle, served at basement temperature of 55°. Just wonderful. 4.1 overall.

750mL bottle from 2008. A hazy old gold pour with tons of little floaties and a HUGE light-tan head with tiny dark flecks. Funky aroma with some lemons, oranges, pepper, wheat, and freshly baked bread. A crisp, medium body with a very soft feel. Flavor starts off with a yeasty tanginess that features some oranges and hints of bananas. Finishes crisp with some dryness. A peppery spiciness and warming alcohol throughout.

New -several samples of the 2004 - how can you tell? L04 on the label. The 2004 is different than this beer has been in several years, apparently. It’s dry-hopped now, and it cuts the sweetness considerably. Like liquid flowers and herbs, flowing all over your sweet cottony saison. Lovely. Original: Highly spicy and also pretty sweet and also a lot of alcohol. Umm. That’s not bothering me tonight! Actually, I like the little bit of barnyard stink in the nose, the itty bitty wafts of candi sugar, but there’s no weird ’herbal essence’ or minerality. It is a lot like a triple. Just enough funkiness to keep it real interesting. But Fantome Winter and de Pipaix are the real loves of my afeared Saison life.

2007 vintage, cloudy honey gold hue, with a thick white head, leaving laces, yeasty, fruity, floral bouquet nose of lavender, rose petal with some spicy, lemon, grapefruit, peach, tangerine hop fruitiness, with some honeyed ppale malt in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, honeyed pale malt, fruity, herbal flower character of lavender, with a faint fruitiness of ripe apples, with a good flowery hop citrusy, of lemon skin, leading towards a warmth, fruity, leafy hop dryness finish.

Spectacularly complex saison. Wild yeast strains, weird wonderful Belgian spicing...difficult to deconstruct...coriander, orange peels, flowers, herbs, cut grass, pepper, lemon zest... Thoroughly refreshing, with exotic flavors and spritzy texture dancing on the tongue. Pairs well with food...I had it with a gourmet vegetarian pizza. Does not get much better than this!

Bottle, April 07. Enormous, striking, saazy hop aroma and horse saddle. Very perfumy and refreshing. Hazy golden-yellow color, very shinny with a medium, creamy, white head. Yasty, phenollic, fruity oranges flavor with comfortable earthy hop notes. Not even the slightest alcohol burn. MF is light to medium, packed with flavor and a sudden, refreshing dry end with an earthy hops aftertaste. Amazing drinkability. Exceptional, flavorfull Saison.

[bottle from beers of europe rating #400] The aroma is yeasty, fruity: peach banana, herbal notes of coriander. fullbodied, dry peppery finish, slightly bitter.