Dupont Avec les Bons Voeux

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

Bottle from 2003, aged 1 year. yeallow, slightly hazy, perfect white head. Mellow citrus aroma (orange or lemon peel). Smooth light mellow malty citrus flavor. Slight orange or lemon peel bite in the finish. Sooper smooth and drinkable. Tastes non-alcoholic....

Perfect gold with a orange tinted center. Slighly paled and definately hazed from the tons of activity that swirls and dances around within. Carbonation is fevered and running for a long time after every pour. Tiny specks of yeast and spices thread themselves inbetween the bubbly action. The head is towering and creamy with a lightly stained whiteness that resembles home made whipping cream. Not to mention the staying power this cap has. It takes for ever to subside from all the carbonated action. Only from sipping does it get taken away. The lacing isn’t really lacing at all, its left over creamy clumps and shelves that sit around the top of glass in areas that I’m not sipping from. Incredible appearance! I could go on, but... Aroma is adequately forward with a lemony spice, dried grasses, airy yeasty dried spice, and pale breads. As it begins to finally settle in after a length the warming temp tends to get an over riped, fruity funk of pineapple and banana skins. The malts really turn it around into something quite different. Still takes alot of wiffing to get the subtlities down as well as its overall nose. But quite capativating, non-the-less. Taste is firm and standing tall. Takes you right in and begins the ride of complexity thats nearly overwhelming. Lots of weird but interesting spices fly up and down and around the center of a pale bready, semi soured tangy center of sweetness. Yeasty things are always there as is a fruity sense of dulled and over ripe citrusy stuff. Kinda stuffy, fairly bold, easliy rich, inticing, slimming dryness, moderate malts, and faint notes to citrus peels and their bitterness and parching effects. One super complex flavor thats ever changing from sip to sip. Something new captured in every sip. A nice aspect to what seems to be its dulling character. I think its the spices, which are peppery, yeasty, floral, dry, grassy, and not withstanding any real overplay as it helps balance the funky fruity paled sweetness. Feel is solid and active, at first, once it settles and is at the bottom, trailing end of its offering, it gets completely awesome. Warm, spicing, airy, creamy, rich, malty, spicy again, some dryness, more spices, wow, it never stops making an impression. Some lasting sips bring the warmth right into the nose with spices and warmth. To me that’s an impression. The drinkability is quite good and can be put back easliy enough, yet that 9.5 % sneaks right in and lets you know and reminds you to slow it down for full enjoyment at the proper stage of the beers’ life. An incredible Saison thats sure to blow the mind of any worthy connoisseur of the style. Seemed at its peak of interest to me at around 60 degrees. So serve warmer then the norm for most and enjoy.

Bottle - 750ml. Superb cloudy golden body with average, lasting white foamy head. Fresh hoppy aroma with banana and coriander hints. Its sharp, well balanced taste carries herbal notes and hides the alcohol perfectly. Ends with a long bitter/herbal finish. Another excellent Saison from Dupont.

What a fantastic beer this is, and I hope this rating doesn’t bring anymore tears to drewbeerme’s eyes. Pours an unclear orange golden with lots of fine tiny bubbles and a huge rocky white frothy head 4.5. Great aroma floral and spicy, noble hops, yeasty, orange peel, noticeably malty. Flavor is spicy and rich, floral hops, lightly fruity, some candi sugar, very yeasty, seems like a touch of nutmeg, lightly funky, cheesy, the sweetness really disguises the coriander, some citrus. I could drink this all year long. Just a hint of alcohol present, but doesn’t at all elude to 9.5%! Fantastic finish, quick leaving a longer lasting yeast aftertaste. One of my favorites. This is the beer equivalent of a vodka soda with a splash of lime, i.e. delicate sweetness while still being dry and extremely crisp and refreshing, ok maybe thats a stretch. Medium bodied, softer abundant crisp carbonation with a very quick clean finish. [simply amazing with some blue veined cheese]

nice light belgian, golden fruity, pilowy white head.malty spicynose.fruity flavours with nice pale malt, sorta peppery. nice beer.

750 ml bottle from Jonathan Ron. Poured a cloudy honey golden brown body sitting underneath one of the most impressive heads I’ve seen in a long time. The head was a large fluffy bright white that left giant dollops of marshmellow sized lace on the side of my Hennepin glass that would drop into the body as I rotated my glass after each sip. The aroma had lots of pepper, flowers and bread about it with some underlying honey and citrus fruits. Medium bodied with small bubbly champagne like carbonation and a finsih that is so dry it actually dried out the top half of my throat. Flavors of dried out flowers, bread, pepper, thym and citrus. Nice but I think I prefer the regular ole Saison Dupont more.

Spicy, yeasty aromas, cinnamon, corriander, citrus. Pours cloudy gold with a thick white head. Must flavor, yeasty, apple skins, spicy yeast, corriander, grains of paradise, rich and smooth with spicy hops, grassy notes, with lot of sweet malts. Great Beer!

On tap at the Flying Saucer. Gold in color and a little hazy with a decent sized white head. Aroma is of hops, heavy spices and fruit. Taste is of fruit, citrus, and spices with a decent alcohol warmth.