Blikken & Blozen - Brouwerij De Molen

biboergosum

Alberta (Canada)

3.98/5  rDev +1.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

330ml bottle. The name seems hard to translate. More maybe on that later. For now, it sounds like the Dutch term for what one too many of these will render you.

This beer pours a hazy, dark orangish amber colour, with a rising tower of over-ebullient, tightly foamy, and creamy ecru head, which settles in for long while, before giving up an Ayers Rock sort of wall of lace around a portion of the glass.

It smells of sharp, muddled tropical fruit, juicy oranges, spicy yeast, caramel/toffee malt, and floral, musty hops. The taste is semi-sweet orange, tangerine, pineapple, and lemon fruit, bready caramel malt, faintly funky, and still warmly spicy yeast, and a pleasant leafy, perfumed hoppiness (the only indication, and an indirect one at that, of any booziness).

The carbonation is a little edgy, but generally easygoing, the body a sturdy enough medium weight, and pretty smooth, with just a wee bit of cloying pull. It finishes off-dry, the malty sweetness keeping its wits about it, while the fruitiness trembles, and the yeast moseys on out of town.

Apparently this is a 'dark saison', which could verily be amended to 'imperial dark saison', a style bastardization that I've come across recently. If we're to give up on the original sensible reasons for the base style to exist, then I guess it's time for new denominations to come about, which is only natural. Blah blah blah - overall, this is a rather tasty offering, balanced enough with that kitchen sink of ingredients thrown at it, and the alcohol does well to be all sneaky and such.

Serving type: bottle

04-17-2013 02:44:09 | More by biboergosum

MattSweatshirt

Texas

3.93/5  rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

33 cl bottle bottled July 12th, 2012 and consumed September 6th, 2012.

Pours out a hazy orange with a big fluffy whiteish head that won't quit.

Lots of sweet tropical and citrus fruit in the nose. The funky yeast slips beneath the dry hopped smell.

Not much of the wonderful fruity aroma on the taste. There is some orange in there though. It is more straightforward saison. Lots of yeast character and some hop bitterness. This is a highly effervescent beer. Just moves right along tingling your palette. After a while the carbonation becomes taxing for the tongue.

This is definitely a beer to have fresh. Worth trying for the saison and hop lovers out there.

Serving type: bottle

12-07-2012 23:02:04 | More by MattSweatshirt