Bottle: Poured a burnt coppery redorange brown with a thick lasting cream head. The aroma was orange peel and fruit, with some dry malt. The taste was bitter orange peel and subsided for a dry finish.

(Draught@Arendsnest, Amsterdam) Clear, dark reddish amber with a largeish, lasting and lacy head. Mild aroma of berry jam and grainy, mildly tart malt. Neutral-malty, mildly roasty flavor. Medium-bodied with medium carbonation. A bit grainy and homebrew-like, but pleasantly neutral. Doesn’t offer much flavorwise, though.

33 cL bottle at Pothuiske in Maastricht. Dark amber color with a lasting beige head. Grainy, bready, dry-hoppy nose, some biscuity malts, with some apple-cidery aspects. Flavor brings only light sweetness and a nice, sustained level of bitterness that lasts beyond the dry finish. Here you can taste real overlap between the porous styles we call "pale ale" and "saison."

Draught, 6.5% at ’t Arendsnest. Fruity aroma, nice and citric. Quite dark red/brown colour, and rather cloudy. Nice tan head, very big and very stable. Good flavour, mildly teaish with some orange juice notes. Medium bitterness. Good balance.

Draught, Arendsnest. Huge and spectacular beige head, in a chalice of all places!, leaves constant and methodical lacing over the surprising murky brown body. Yeast forward nose offers a light funk along the confident cotton-candy, biscuits, chocolate milk and various esters. The dark toasted malts feel coherent with this proactive yeastiness. Certainly a bit sweet of a beer, but supported by enough spicy hints (though perhaps not the usual ones: cloves, nutmeg) to be a distant cousin of the saison style. Let’s call it a Christmas example if such a thing may be excused.