4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of pepper, lemons, and yeast. The flavor is sweet and acidic with notes of yeast, brettanomyces, lemons, and pepper, leading to a dry finish.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
75 cL bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is barnyard fruity, citrusy and orange fruity. Smooth fruity, orange fruity and smooth barnyardy. Smooth and fruity finish. Crisp citric and barnyardy finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at Moeder Lambic.
Hazy golden coloured with a medium sized white head.
Fruity aroma of spices, brett and hops with acidic notes.
Fruity flavour of brett and oak with notes of soap and spices and acidic notes.
Tart finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Cloudy yellow/golden - white head. Zesty, fruity, peppery, spicy, medium carbonation, bretty, acid, wooden, nice oakey, mild hoppy. Nice.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle @ Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Brussels.
Pours slightly muddy yellow with a lovely, big, staying, frothy, white head. Great duration. Aroma has sweet malts, brett, light sugar, citrus and green apple. Medium carbonation, fine dry and creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is fairly tart at first, some soapy hints, pepper, dryness, lots of funky brett. Malty sweet with a lingering, hoppy and bretty dryness. Very yummy, perhaps not worth its price, but still yummy.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Hazy pale yellow with a lasting white head. Aroma of exotic fruit, grapefruit and leather. Dry and slightly tart flavour of brett and a touch of pepper.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Bright golden color, small white head. Aroma of straw, hay, lemon peel. Taste has barnyard, lemon, hay. Nice.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle shared at Spuyten Duyvil. Pale golden-straw colour. Aroma is really great. Big bright fruity nose. Quite a lot of tart sourness with a distinct Cantillon-esque funkiness. A bit of tartness and some strong leathery notes. A light lemony tartness as well with a touch of soft cologne and some funky bretty spiciness. The flavour is less intense than the aroma would suggest but it does have a pretty prominent tartness and a funky dry leathery character. There is a bit of grassiness with a touch of light bitterness. It smells a lot more sour than it tastes. There is a touch of sweetness even on the back, despite the strong tart character. Solid stuff really.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle shared by ryan. Pours clear gold with a medium, fizzy white head, medium retention with light lacing. Aroma is spices, pepper, hay and straw malt, and hoppy with earthy barnyard notes. Flavor is subdued malt with spices and pepper, grassy hops, earth notes and a dry finish. Medium-light body, low warmth, high carbonation.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Very good dense white head, lace; hazy yellow beer with a green shine. Again lambic Cantillon nose, wry, with unripe grapes, lunaria and other green fruit. Little spicy bitterness, helping to relieve the expected acidity. Root vegetables and health spices, with again such a bitter-vegetable aftertaste, not unlike artichokes. Quite some astringency, wry, medium bodied, bit spritzy. Very special, but the balance is not always ship-shape. And I have grave doubts about a Saison, containing real lambic - old-style Saisons had their own spontaneous infections.
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