Saison Lacombe Printemps W/Brett
Blindman Brewing

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - this was the most recent F*@K Cancer charity brew on their growler station, and since I don't think that the regular Saison Lacombe Printemps uses Brett, I thus deem this as a newbie.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with one fat finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves little in the way of lace around the glass as it quickly wafts away.

It smells of gritty and crackery wheat malt, some further cereal graininess, subtle musty and dirty gym sock funky notes, a slight sour generic light fruitiness, and very understated leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a lesser edgy wheatiness, thankfully laid-back Brett essences (just a mild, indistinct funkiness, really), a separate earthy yeastiness, and more leafy, grassy, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its quotidian frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, nothing really getting in the way of a good time here, it would seem. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt and hoppy fruitiness carrying the lingering day.

Overall - like my Mom always used to say about cheap chicken noodle soup (it's as if the chicken walked through the pot in rubber boots), the same folksy adage applies here. M. Brett has a very, very minor effect in this brew, almost ephemeral, but that's a-ok by me. What we are left with, is a simple, somewhat hoppy Saison, which is very drinkable and enjoyable on another sunny August afternoon. And oh, right - yeah, FUCK cancer - I miss you Mom.