Dupont Avec les Bons Voeux

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

This one set me back a serious $9.75 here at my local Northcoast Coop. At this price you would expect this to be incredible. It was indeed excellent, and maybe even worth the price. Poured a rich gold color with some haze and with a big fat white head that rose up out ot the glass like a cauliflower. Rich nose of fruits like bananas and pineapple, along with apricot, spices, and hops as well. So many aromas words kind of fail me here. Very smooth mouthfeel. Flavors are rich and delightful. Slighty sour and bitter finish. Exceptional beer.

If you like the saison sytle of beer, then you will love this. Everything that makes a saison what it is is all right here. Aroma is spicy, grassy, citrusy, malty and bready. Pours out a rather large fluffy head, bright orange color...looks really inviting. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, rather spritzy in the tongue. Flavors were interesting enough to keep even the most jaded reviewers attention. A little citrus, hay, vinegar, yeast, peppery and my favorite...a little funk going on. It’s not real prominent in any one flavor profile but it does a lot of little things really, really well.

Bottle courtesy of Matta. Pours dirty golden yellow with just a ring of bubbles. Very sour like skunk aroma, oddly not a bad skunk aroma. Little too carbonated. Flavor is strange yeast with a nice sourness to it. Also has a stramge sweetness about it. Very complex brew, I would probably rate higher to style. But overall very good anyway.

Kulminator, Draught. Hazy yellow blond coloured with some slight carbonation and a creamy average white head. Fruity yeasty aroma. Taste is creamy, fruity and little yeasty, very nice. Finish is bitter sweet, with some fruity hints and a slightly alcoholic yeasty touch. Very nice strong beer. Love it.

(Bottle) Pours clear deep golden with a big, creamy off-white head. The aroma is full of dust, wood, citrus/orange/mild lemon, toasted white bread, coriander, and sweaty cheese. Barnyard-like tones of urine, wet earth, cow fur and cow droppings. Light citrus juicey sweet but otherwise chalk dry on the nose. A whisper of herbal hops. The flavour is near medium sweet, light to medium bitter and light to medium acidic. Tones of wood, orange/lemon citrus, barnyard and crackers alongside floral hints. The mouthfeel is medium carbonated, numbing alcohol-ish, dusty dry and light round. Dusty, citric an tart woody finish. Medium bodied.

750 ml bottle thanks to Santa Claus, thanks. Pours a golden color with a huge foamy white head, and tons of lacing. The aroma is quite nice; sweet citrus and fruit, lemon, apples, lots of yeast, sweet bready notes. The flavor is great; sweet citrus and bready flavors, yeast, a dry concoction of full dry flavors. No noticeable alcohol at all. Very nice. A very full mouthfeel.

Tried at Holiday Wine Cellar beer tasting. Thick nice white head. Orange amber color. A nice typical sour beer. 8,3,8,3,16:3.8 Tried again at 2008 Woodshop hosted by cquiroga. Dry lots of carbonation. Meh. 7,3,6,4,14:3.4

75cl bottle from Willow Bend Liquors (Tampa, FL). Pours a cloudy caramel-golden color with a thick, creamy, three-finger head that settles quickly but provides ample lacing throughout consumption. Smells strongly of spice, bread, yeast, straw, fresh grass and citrus peel. Clearly visible particulates. Medium-bodied ale with a somewhat creamy mouthfeel. Flavor is slightly of honey, caramel, and spice with larger notes of bread, straw and yeast. Somewhat quick finish. Alcohol seems to come through more as the beer warms.