Saison de Pipaix

Brewed by Brasserie à Vapeur
Style: Saison
Leuze-Pipaix, Belgium

Serve in Tulip

Old looking 33cl bottle thanks to Hopscotch. Pour is deep, hearty looking cloudy copper with almost no head. Aroma is brandy, lactic acid, mild funk, apricots, brett-like aromas, and a little green apple. Flavor is more delicate than expected. Lightly sweet and sour up front with a smooth transition into a lightly woody and funky middle. The finish is a bit smoky, with a touch of roasted malt and light hay. Really a different saison but quite tasty. Much easier to drink than I was expecting. Happy to have tried this one.

Aroma of gorgonzola cheese, apples, and belgian yeast. Taste is belgian yeast, dry apples, dust, and cheese. Finish is a bit sweet, some dryness. Yummy.

Pours a darker-than-expected copper color with a quickly fading white head. Pear, old flowers, light wood and spices in the nose. Flavor has notes of ginger, lemon, hay, orange, apple, herbal noble hops and light toastyness. Very well-balanced, ample bitterness for the style, ends dry. Medium to light bodied with spritzy carbonation.

Bottle . Pours an hazy amber/orange color with a modest white fluffy head. At first sniff I get the yeast, then I get a nose full of lemon and pepper. Kinda strange. The taste is very dry, tart, and very peppery. This is not a bad brew, but It’s not what I expect a saison to taste like.

In short: A really fucked-up dark-blond beer of some kind. All kinds of flavours that do not work together but make for an “special” beer. Very good, no. Intriguing, yes.
How: Bottle 750ml, corked. Consumed when about 1 year of age.
The look: A small white head over a cloudy dirty orange body with lots of small particles
In long: Strange musty nose with fruity sourness and a weird wild yeast component that I’d describe as lichen. Taste has a lot of elements. The beer is complex for sure, but cohesive it is not. In no particular order. Baked fruit cake, green apple, orange peels, bread, Acetaldehyde, white grapes sourness, sharp acidity. Feels really “off” yet it is also very intriguing and I had to All over the place really so I’ll stop here, the important thing anyway is that I’ve plugged in Acetaldehyde in one of my rating.

11.2 oz bottle 6/30/09 (Courtesy of Hopscotch)-Pours a cloudy amber with a small white head. Aroma of sour, funk, floral, and citrus. Taste is of the same with a bit of wood, vanilla, and slight orange. This light to medium bodied brew is nothing to write home about and a little bit bland but still drinkable.

0.75l - Fizzy liquid with a cloudy copper color, no real head, yeast mainly on nose with some underlying starch/dough. Metallic and bland on palate. Boring.

Corked and capped bottle. Pours cloudy amber with a scant white head. Sour lemon and funk nose. Light body and carbonation. There’s a bit of fruit here, but the main feature is sourness.