Dupont Avec les Bons Voeux

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

2002. Cloudy orange, belian white looking beer. Nice developed head (from five or six pours. Nice high foam, lace. Smells of coriander, orange peel, bubble gum, vanilla. The taste is very tart, nice bitterness but quite acidic. Some citrus peel flavors going on as well. Nice but the bitterness lasts for quite some time. Dry mouthfeel. This would be nice with a sweet dessert.

Fresh cut hay, overripe melon, citrus-lemon-lime and some lightly spicy, grassy hops in the nose. Opaque tan-yellow with generous and lasting white head that recedes slowly with some lacing. Plenty of yeast in suspension. Generally spicy flavour has all the notes of the aroma with a strong herbal/spicy character. Medium-light body with refreshing strong effervescence. Bottle sampled at the Voyager par des Papilles group tasting Feb-05.

Bottle. Cloudy orangy golden color with thick white head. Aroma is grassy and herbal. Floral, herbal taste with some spice. Very, very smooth. Almost silky. Excellent beer.

This blonde ale poured with a generous white head, eliciting a musty yeast aroma. The flavor is spicy and fruity, with a carbonated mouthfeel and a smooth slightly bitter finish. Similar to, but much more complex and balanced than the Dupont Saison.

Pours light golden with a mostly maintained foamy off-white head and an effervescent body. Aroma is wonderfully yeasty: notes of honey, bubble gum, barnyard, herbs, and pineapple esters. Taste is well balanced with both explosive esters and lightly bitter herbs. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with lush carbnonation. This is most delicious!

I had the chance to sample this on tap at Rich O’s. On tap it is not as estery, and rates closer to a 4. Still an excellent beer, but no bouquet of esters that makes this so delicious.

75 cl fles, ’tht’ okt 2010. Gouden met een fijne neveligheid. Een gulle, levendige, wandklevende kraag. Aromatische hopgeur met zachte citrustoetsen en een lichte kruidigheid. De smaakaanzet is zoetig, doch snel overvloeiend naar een droge, licht fruitige, likeurachtige bitterheid met een ontzettend lange herbaalbittere afdronk. Stevige body, zeer verwarmend mondgevoel.

Thanks to JPDISPO for opening up this one (and thanks to Clark for the bottle that I’m now able to cellar!) Hazy body with some sediment, and a muted golden-yellow color underneath a head mirrored after pillowy laundry suds and snowstorm lacing. Sugary lemon rinds turning south tempt the senses, followed by coriander and sweet orange peel. Lemon grass and lime juice brush on willow wheat come out in the next waft. Bitter orange peel graces through soon thereafter, moments before the yeast strain lets you know it’s the reason why we’re all here. Take a sip and we’re quite certain that this is one seriously flavored saison. Buttery sweet dough and vanilla buttercream seep in over sucked on lemonheads. Coriander gives a subtle scratch, but the confectionary bakers delight pursues and even sweeter path. Big puffy effervescence and in the dry recession, the spices coriander and chamomile rise up splendidly. Bakery lemon meringue cuts close to spruce. Light hotness if you open the mouth up to the atmosphere post-gestation. Lemon peel and dry beet sugar give a hot, warming finish. This is a beautiful thing.

Very good! I’m liking these Belgian Saisons. The taste of this was like citrus, wheat and malt combined. The aroma was similar to Aventinus which of course pleases me. The alcohol was barely noticable. Really a wonderful beer. I recommend it.