La Sirène Saison
La Sirène Brewing

 

 

 

Bottle: Poured a hazy dirty yellow color ale with a nice large off-white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of rustic malt notes with light peppery yeast undertones is quite pleasant. Taste is a mix of rustic malt notes with some peppery yeast notes with light hay undertones. Body is about average with excellent carbonation. Classic style saison which is great and unfortunately always underrated.

Excellent saison. Pours out a mildly cloudy golden with abundant fluffy head. Head sustains throughout. Flowery, savory aroma, taste is hay, grass, meadow and some coriander. Mildly savory finish. Could be straight out of Belgium.

Pours saison-like, essentially hay colored hue. Nice little funk on the nose. Has a little more of a tart character than a "traditional saison". Very nice, would have again.

 

 

 

From bottle, poured a very hazy Yellow with a thick fluffy two and half finger head that had pretty good retention leaving a quite thick lace ring, with quite a bit of sediment. Aroma citrus, orange, lemon and pear. Taste sourness, orange, lemon, apple, pear banana very interesting and refreshing.

Don’t really like it when a beer doesn’t have a bottled date or even a best before date, and there were none here. Poured from a 375ml bottle into a tulip glass.

A: The beer poured a very hazy golden orange colour with a thick fluffy two and half finger head that had pretty good retention leaving a quite thick lace ring. There was also quite a bit of sediment at the bottom of the bottle.
S: Crisp funk with citrus orange, lemon and pear
T: Tart sourness, funk, orange, lemon, apple then leaves a lasting pear aftertaste.
M: Crisp, light with good carbonation.
O: A nice crisp saison that I would probably buy again. Very refreshing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a pale golden colour, slight cloud. Head is white and fluffy. Lace is fairly sparse, but still looks nice.

Smells spicy, with wildish barnyard characters. Slight cherry back note, with pepper, a touch of vanilla and almond meal. Phenolic tartness on the back. Decent but standard.

Taste is big and saisony. Odd sort of funk throughout, with tangy peach overtones, crisp apple and mediciney, cherry-cola notes. Red pepper, capsicum and beetroot, even. A little too phenolic on the back for my liking, but nice natural flavours and esters coming through.

Fluid body, with a bit of texture. Not bad.

Decent, but quite phenolic saison. Very Belgian in style.

Cloudy straw colour. Big white head. Fair head retention. Good.

Banana, clove and wheat aroma. Nice. Lovely spicy note. A little herbal. Good.

Another solid beer. Good clove and coriander notes. Some fruit. Very light malt. Tasty.

Medium-light body with moderately-high carbonation. The way it should be.

A solid beer. It doesn't have all of the same earthy deliciousness of the best Belgian examples. Good but not phenomenal.