Moinette Biologique

Cloudy blonde body with an initially large white head. Funky aroma with barn yard, flower petals and some fruity notes (pineapples). Taste and mouthfeel is just great. Signature wild/funky Dupont yeast prevails. Very Saison indeed. Complex taste includes wild flowers (including dandelions), some fruity notes (peach, pineapples), mineral spices, a drop of vanilla and a rather generous amount of soft belgian hops. Finish blends the funky nature of the beer, a nice tartness and a soft but dry hop bitterness. Wow! Labelled Dupont Forest in North America and Moinette Biologique elsewhere. I guess it makes it a Biological Forest. Is there another kind of forest?

Bottled. A hazy orange coloured beer with a rocky white head and sticky globulous lacing. The aroma is yeasty and a little lemony with some peppery hop notes. The taste is also yeasty and peppery. Not the funk I would expect from a Dupont saison (if indeed that’s what it is), but good clean flavours. Finish a little on the short side, but very drinkable.

bottle. Thanksgiving dinner. hazy golden pour with huge white head. spicy yeast aroma. a tad funky as well. very smooth and lite. warming spice and pleasent yeast. dry finish. great with the Turkey.

(07.28.06) One pint 9.4 oz green bottle from DiCarlo’s, Mundelein, IL. 7.5% ABV. Cork labeled 2005. Spicy, slightly funky skunked aroma. Pour hazy orange with giant creamy head. Soft carbonation. Medium bodied ale that starts with light malt sweetness and fruity (orange peel)/spicy (coriander) flavors. Finished dry and clean with spicy finish. A delicious ale, well-balanced and clean tasting.

33cl; thanks, Luiss, even though I can easily get this beer here! Pours a cloudy amber with a humongous bubbly platinum blonde head. Pretty solid hay and hore blanket and funk on the nose, but not sharp or tart or overpowering--just pleasant notes. Medium body, maybe actually on the light side of medium. Tingly carb but not fizzy or sharp. Citrusy, very slightly funky, and green apple on the palate, falling to an earthily bitter finish. Great stuff, very drinkable and clean and strong.

0.25L Bottle. Cloudy orange, low creamy lacing head. Minerallic yeasty and estery orangepeel notes. Hard dry and edgy minerals, estery fruit, metallic plateau. Quick finish, dusty yeast aftertaste. Sparkly mellow mouthfeel.

Tiny bottle. Pours gold and grainy, with a large fluffy white head. Aroma is surprisingly smokey to me, like a pungent german hefeweizen, also sour and bready. Becomes yeastier smelling as it warms. Taste is sweet at first, a marriage of wheat, clove and peppery tastes. Finishes with a noticable hop flaovr and a slightly roasty dryness. The carbonation was very high, but as the beer nears room temperature, it all melds together to form a wondeful creamy texture. Very smooth beer in pretty much every regard, and thoroughly interesting.

Hazy golden color. Malt aroma, with some spices. Good malty body, dry edge, spices (coriander), high bitterness, with a touch of bitter orange peel.