Brasserie de la Senne Double Saison (with Brett, Bottle Only)

Double Saison (with Brett, Bottle Only)

 

Brasserie de la Senne in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

Collab with: La Brasserie du Mont Salève
Farmhouse - Saison Special Out of Production
Score
7.45
ABV: 8.0% IBU: - Ticks: 20
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8.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle at Moeder Lambic Original. Can't initially feel the alcohol. Nice grainy and fruity aroma, berries but also some spice. Taste is good, strawberry and cream, some more tropical fruit, quite a hoppy finish. Maybe starting to feel the bite, but this is great. Score slightly down because I'm not a fan of strong saisons, but still this is great.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:05


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle, slow gusher. Glowing hazy golden color with huge white head. Aroma is Orvaly bretts, pear, tropical fruits, white wine, hay, funky horseblankety/leathery flavours, tickles in the nose. Taste is tropical fruits, bubblegum, earthy, hay, leathery, white pepper and some phenolic booze in the back. Good chewiness, soft velvety mouthfeel with spritzy carbonation. Excellently made, lovely dry vineous Brett-Saison that has just a tad too much booze flavours in the aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Apr 2018 at 19:45


8.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle dated Feb/2016 from Craft Brewed. Pours a glowing gold with a full 2 fingers of rocky foam that lingers. Lovely brett nose with hay, horseblanket, lemon, wheat husks, green pineapple and passion fruit as it warms. Starts to get more tropical as it warms up a bit. Dry on the palate, with hay, fresh lemon zest, mineral notes and a nice mild tropical note that comes off like dried apricot or dried pineapple. Bitter peppercorn and grassy notes on the finish. Great stuff. --- Beer merged from original tick of Double Saison on 07 Jan 2018 at 15:13 - Score: 8. Original review text: Brett nose, lemon, wheat husks, green pineapple and passion fruit as it warms. Bottled 23 months ago. Classic De la Senne dryness. Awesome!

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jan 2018 at 12:28


6.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

The bottled version of this collab of Senne with Mont Salève, refermented with Brettanomyces and in that sense a different beer from the draught version I had at Gollem a few months ago. Very fierce gusher, there was no way I could reduce the loss of 1/4 of the bottle violently spouting out during even very careful opening - a huge disappointment especially because this is a Senne beer, which I tend to expect technical perfection from. Initially towering high, foamy head, settling to a thick, very irregular, 'papery' lacing, moussy, egg-white head over a completely cloudy, 'summery' pale peach blonde beer, yellow-ochre-ish and milky with sediment. Aroma is evidently very Bretty-estery, with hints of moldy grapefruit, fermenting apples, spoiled yellow plums, white grapes, sourdough, goat cheese, old socks, stale urine even, damp hay, very old abbey cheese, armpit sweat, parsnip, baker's yeast, moist white pepper, raw potato juice, horseradish, old moldy bread. Very fruity, vivid onset, lots of esteriness with sweetish notes of peach, pineapple and a soapy starfruit hint, surrounded by a soft sourishness (gooseberry, raw rhubarb), in a sharply carbonated environment; bit coarse mouthfeel with minerally 'stings' as a result. Bready malt middle with sharper grainy edges, still a bit 'fluffy' though, providing a mellow basis for the bone dry Brett effect stretching well into the finish, where the impressions of sweat, old cheese and fermenting stonefruit come to full glory, above a very earthy, deep, peppery, citrus peel- and wormwood-like, firmly bittering hoppiness, adding spiciness to a dry, yeasty, almost powdery, estery finish. Well-intended and this could have worked very well if the fermentation did not spin out of control - no infection or anything like that, just too much Brett, I'm afraid. The gushing (and overcarbonation) aside, this is however a very enjoyable beer, more a modern 'wild ale' than a true saison, but complex, rural, uncompromisingly bitter and dry - nothing wrong with the flavour as such if you're into this style of beer, and in fact very quenching and highly drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Sep 2017 at 07:28


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

0.33 l bottle from ’Dranken Geers’, bottled in February 2016. Slightly hazy, golden yellow with a large, a bit fluffy, stable, white head. Sweetish, very funky, slightly fruity-grassy and a bit floral aroma of lemon peel, lots of sweat, urine and some gooseberry. Slightly bitter, intensely funky, slightly fruity-grassy and a bit floral taste of lemon peel, pineapple, gooseberry, massive sweat and urine, followed by a medium long, moderately bitter, rather dry and quite grassy finish. Thin to medium body, very effervescent and a bit astringent mouthfeel, lively carbonation. Very nice, lots of brett funk, refreshing.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2017 at 15:58


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Hazy pale yellow color, big white head with good retention and lacing. Lemon and white pepper aroma. Taste is lightly dusty citrus, dry finish with funk and pepper. Very tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2017 at 08:38


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle 330ml. @ home. [ As De la Senne / Mont Salève Double Saison (with Brett) ].[ Trade by Dedollewaitor ]. Clear medium yellow color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, wheat, moderate hoppy, herbs, moderate to heavy yeasty, saison yeast, spicy fruit - hops, citric, light funk - barnyard. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, spicy - herbs, saison yeast, funky, hop bitter, citric - fruity, brett, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to lively. [20161228] 8-3-8-3-15

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2017 at 04:48


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

0,33l bottle at home couretsy of Saeglopur, big thanks. Bottled 11.02.2016. BB 11.02.2021. yellow cloudy color, quite big white head. smells musty, dusty, some funk, bit pukeish, lightly fruit, peppery. decent smell. full body, medium carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes musty, rather bretty, some fruity notes, lightly citric, some funk, bit soapy. finishes rather dry with notes of fruits, brett and some soapy notes. decent but not totally my thing.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Dec 2016 at 14:08


7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as De la Senne / Mont Salève Double Saison (with Brett, bottle only) (by Brasserie de la Senne):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

29/IX/16 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: 11/II/21, bottled: 11/II/16 (2016-1193) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!

Cloudy light blond beer, big aery white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: funky, very floral, sourish, lemony. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: funky, horse blanket, some citrus, hoppy bitterness, some grapefruit. Aftertaste: fruity, funky, floral, bit soapy, nice bitterness, bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2016 at 16:10


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Bottle shared with kermis and 77ships at Beerlovers. Thin white head. Very hazy blond pour. Refreshing

Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2016 at 13:01