Bailleux Cuvée des Jonquilles

Brewed by Bailleux
Style: Saison
Gussignies, France

750ml Bottle (Cork popped with a loud ’bang’): Aroma of yeast and some doughy bread. Poured amber/orange/gold in color with a small, fizzy, white head that disappeared quickly but lasted around the edges. Cloudy. Sparkling. Full of tiny, small, medium, and large-sized particles throughout. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of yeast, slight malts, and a hint of hops. Light to medium body. Tingly, then slightly dry texture. Carbonation is fizzy and lively. Sweet, yeast finish. Kinda boring. Just lots of yeast.

Bottle. Big POP as the cork fires into the ceiling and the beer starts to flow. Dark yellow with a thick merangue white head. Earth, grass and barn aroma. Flavour starts where the aroma ends. Creamy milky body. Taste of earth, straw, banana cream, barn and soft spice.

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden with a large white head. Spicy yeast, citrus, grass, floral and dusty. Bread y with earth and a drying finish. Good.

Bottle au Baron, at the brewery. Very floral hoppy aroma. Citrusfruits, refreshing, well balanced. Good.

A huge pop upon the opening surprises for what seems to be a rather old beer. The musty, lightly oxidized aroma also hints at dryness to come and delicate spicy yeastiness, so much that beyond the negative first impression, we are quickly won. An old treasure lies beyond those cobwebs. Very herbal and most of all, incredibly put together hops. Delicious hallertauer, done perfectly - spot on as I like them with a floweriness you want to suck on, a glass you could never tire of all paired with that musty yeast. This is between burgerbrau’s wolnzacher hell in top shape and de ranke’s guldenberg or a softened xx bitter. Spotty powderiness, likely from the lack of freshness and a redundant grainy maltiness are the only factors to keep it away from a 10, and this was done mostly on hops alone. Medium bodied, very soft carbonation. It may not be in top shape, but it’ll make you feel young, as you rediscover the pleasures which first brought you into good beer.

Bottled. Apparently I drank this with skortila and Bullit, but I did not take notes. But I know I had about the same opinion about the beer as they had :P. Anyways, for a French beer, it’s quite ok.

Bottled. Aroma has yeast, floral hops, is a bit citric and has some spice. Hazy, yellow coloured with a white head. The taste is a bit sweet, has citrus. Some yeast, floral hops as well present. Light-medium bodied. Refreshing.