Dupont Avec les Bons Voeux

Brewed by Brasserie Dupont
Style: Saison
Tourpes-Leuze, Belgium

[2007 Bottle, consumed December ’08] Pours hazy orange with a good, lasting white head. Aroma is really nice with a lot of yeast, coriander, orange, and a little more malt than I had expected. The taste has similar characteristics, with some alcohol and hop bitterness also coming into play. Good mouthfeel with a dry finish. A really outstanding saison that is one of the better ones that I have had. I will have to try this side-by-side with Vieille Provision some time.

Pours hazy orange amber with a thick white head. Spicy aroma with hay, orange peel, and yeast. Flavor is malty, spicy, grassy, with a hint of hops and citrus. Good mouthfeel, very complex. Nice beer.

Pours a hazy gold with a huge white head. Highly carbonated beer. You can smell the spritzy carbonation in with some sharp, tart citrus, sweet breads, and Belgian yeast. Very dry flavor. The citrus and bread make a very robust tart, grassy flavor. The finish is very dry alcohol, and the overall body is very carbonated and herbal.

An orangy golden hue. Mountainous foamy head that lasts. Fresh clean grassy/woodsy scent and nearly chlorine smell, like the hair of a young girl who just got out of the pool, but maybe that’s just the scent of summer I’m gettiing. Clean grassy pepper and hop at first sip with one of the best overall palates I’ve come across. The mouthfeel is fantastic. Fresh hop is always on the periphery, begging to be noticed. The palate to me is center-stage but just behind that is the wonderful aroma, which I gave an ’8’, and then looking back at my review of the Orval, which I gave a ’9’, that makes sense, because no brew has equaled the nose on that one. This is a very special brew, and I certainly prefer it to the classic Dupont, which I wish could be my affordable everyday beer. Love it.

Very beautiful rosy-appled-orange colour with a milky murky haze. Tangerine peel, apricots, cloves all greet the nose when poured and the head is soft, fluffy, and bountiful. Taste showcases candied fruits, melon, pepper, anise, slight hay and woodsy tones. Seems like a festive beer and good drinking all year ’round. Delightful.

75cl bottle. Hazy gold with a big, lasting white head. The aroma is just beautiful beer: hoppy, bready, malty, yeasty, spicy, fruity... The flavor is somewhat sweet and bready to begin, jammy in the middle, and then dry and lightly alcoholic, with bitter hops that leave an orange and spice flavor. The body is medium with ambitious bubbles. Almost brings in a tripel cameo before being firmly Dupont. Great stuff.

Bouteille de 750ml Dégusté à l’autre-oeil avec Viak et Glandine dans un verre tulipe. Apparence orange ambré avec gros dépôt de levure et une mousse intense et collante marquant chaque gorgé. Arômes floral d’agrumes au bouquet somptueux et herbacé. Un goût riche de poivre, de raisin, de fruits mûres et de levure fraîche, j’adore!

Bottle 375ml. Apperance; Orange, a bit hazy with some yeast floating, with a frothy head. Aroma; Some fruits, lemon/Citrus and yeast, with a lightly sour and alcohol ending.