Saison dEpeautre

Brewed by Brasserie de Blaugies
Style: Saison
Dour-Blaugies, Belgium

Bottled, 0,75 ltr, vintage 2005 (BBE 2008)
Hazy yellow color, lots of floating yeast, big cloudy white head and lots of lace. Spicey peppery nose with grass, barnyard, lemon and metal. Spicey, woody, peppery, lemony hoppy flavor. Quite typical saison flavors, woody-wheaty notes are propably from spelt used here. Drinkable and good saison, but not so complex and interesting than eg. Fantomes.

Thanks Jeremy for bringing this beer for the Tennessee/Florida game! Pours a cloudy, yellow color with a slight lacing white head. Spicy aroma, with a hint of lemons and other citrusy notes. Defintely a sense of some pepper in the taste. Dry malt as well. Kind of sour, but not really. Lemon zest at the end. A decent saison.

Hokey Smokes! With the way the cork fired from the bottle neck, this is the closest I’ve come to losing an eye whilst drinking beer! (Of course, one must discount some of the juvenile brawls that I found myself in the middle of when I was a kid guzzling swill... all that was available in those days.) (And some of the juvenile brawls that I found myself in the middle of when I was a programmer guzzling swill... all that we had to do when running tests late at night.) (And some of the juvenile brawls that I found myself in when the soon-to-be-ex was....) (Enough!!!)
Anywho - this stuff is a hard pour, each trickle generating an eruption of light, fizzy, annoying foam. This isn’t a head; it’s an invasion! The aroma is yeast-filled with lemon, sugar, and rotting hay. It fizzes up madly, annoyingly, in the mouth. The taste is a sour flavor, malt gone bad with wheat and dying grasses. I.e., Not bad. The finish is tart and bitter (hops at last!) and strangely refreshing. I’d have it again, but someone else will have to open the bottle and pour.

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Bottle. Yeast and wheat aroma - similar to a Weizen. Tan-yellow color - cloudy with ample lasting head. Slightly sweet wheat flavor that ends dry. I really like this beer - it’s like a dry Hefeweizen - very nice.

Bottle: Pale yellow, very cloudy and dull, large fizzy white head, falls quickly, strong carbonation, sparce lacing.   Other than the carbonation it seems rather still.   Spicy nose, fairly strong, slight citrus, strong wheat aspect.   Very spritzy in the mouth, wheaty, with a soft spiciness.   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Slight sourness before the finish, but finishes fairly clean.   Not as floral or sharp as I would have liked.   It seemed rather still after the head died down.   Decent, but just not interesting enough.

Sourish, spicy and yeasty nose. Hazy yellow body, small white head. Quite spicy and yeasty flavor.

07.16.05 BCTC Hazed straw, lasting but bubbly head. Mild corn aromas of grass, light funk, more grass, weeds. Flavor adds light melon. Super effervescent, airy.

08.01.05 750ml (2004) and I have to say I concur 100% with my rating from BCTC. Also, it would be good to note that this bottle almost killed me as the cork and cage FIRED off of the bottle after three turns. Beer geyser that I foolishly tried to plug with my finger shot 8 feet to the right and two feet overhead onto the kitchen cabinets. Exciting, and I only lost about 100ml. This beer is one of the best 3.4 beers I’ve ever had. It’s like a 3.4 +

(Draught) Sampled at the Belgium Comes To Cooperstown 2005 in Cooperstown, NY. Shelton Brothers booth. Muddy and cow pasture. Fizzy, light and watery. Above average.