Saison de Pipaix

Brewed by Brasserie à Vapeur
Style: Saison
Leuze-Pipaix, Belgium

750 Bottle at 55 F out of Westmalle Glass Got from Brusin’ Ales Appearance is a Dark golden hue ~7 SRM unfiltered and cloudy with a white durant rocky head. Aromas of boysenberry, honey, Spicy, apple cider. Apples marry the back of the tongue with oak, apple cider, star anise, cloves, cinammon, ginger bites, sweet orange peel. backdrop of dry sour spicy orange peel and like all vapeur Ales, That ever present 30 second after swallow tribute to Black pepper the middle of the tongue (Complex and nice) fades in. This was originally the intended flagship of Jean Louis Diet all though Conchone with it’s sexy label accounts for 70 % of the total production. HIGHLY Recommended

Orange-amber color with a lasting, white head. Aroma is sweet, funky and sour all at once. Flavor is fruity like stewed tea, with some herbs and fungal must in there. A little spicy. Bitter and dry toward the back end. I reckon every bottle of this is a bit different, though. I’ll be back.

cloudy dark orange with a small white head. sour pear, peach, grapefruit, pepper flavor. very musty and barnyardy. earthy, citrus nose.

Bottle from 1991 - Deep beautiful dark golden body with a big beautiful white head; Big balanced elegant nose, very saison with different citrus fruits, earthy spices and a bit of salt; Soft a little thin fresh body, pleasant sharp carbonation, balanced, settled, fruity sour fresh; Very long finish, elegant earthy spicy aromas, rotten apple brett like aroma, grapefruit juice like sour. What an amazing beer!

Sampled 1994 vintage at DLD07. Pours orangish copper with a bit of a whitish head. The aroma is filled with spicy, yeast, sour and all the funk you could imagine. The taste had most of what was on the aroma and came across more like a gueuze than a saison. I would love to try this fresh to see the difference, but the very aged version was tart, unique and very enjoyable.

Bottle 1994 vintage @ DLD: Poured copper with an off white head. Aroma some spice, yeasty, slight sourness. Flavor, spices, yeasty, a nice soft funkiness. I thought it was pretty good, especially for something so old.

Lightly cloudy orange colored body, low carbonation gives a thin off-white head. Nose has a scent similar to some brett or some sour yogurt years, along with a large dose of grapefruit and peach. Good hefty spiced yeast. Light to moderate bubbly texture, and moderately thick body as well, almost chewy or vinuous. Spicy and fruity, not too sour, just a little bit, and overall the flavor profile centers on old manadarin oranges. Good stuff but not the ideal saison, but I pretty much compare every saison to Dupont. Most of the spicy orange flavor shows up in the finish, which is interesting and nice, but overall it’s just doesn’t hit the spot.

Unknown vintage although I’m pretty sure I bought this in early 2006 but who knows how long it was sitting on the shelf. The beer pours to a hazy sexy brass colored body with a lasting creamy light khaki/off-white head. Nice lacing. Great looking slow and tiny carbonation. The aroma has strong notes of red delicious apples, light lemons, basements, cork (which I suspect is the lichen), and something about it is simply appealing. Smells fresh even though I know it isn’t. The flavor is very earthy. Interesting spices and citric acid. Lemon. Light star fruit, red apples, and spice. Intriguing. The palate is lightly drying. Finishes clean with only a mild lingering spice. Moderate carbonation. A nice saison.