The Bruery Saison de Lente

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Pours a semi-cloudy pineapple juice color with a one finger head that stays a long time. Carbonation is very intense and forms a tornado in the glass. Aroma is slightly sweet with hints of banana, spices, and flowers. Taste is metallic with hints of light malts and spices. Finishes off watered down and dry. Slightly soapy. The body could be less watered down. Good warm weather beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Embrace the Funk Fest. Light straw yellow/orange golden color, white head and lacing, nice carbonation. Zesty citrus, funky yeasty, Brett aromas and initial taste, tart and zingy, some citrus zest, more funk and light barnyard earthiness, some floral bitter linger with more funk/Brett. Nice Saison.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

This poured a bright golden color with a white head. Aroma is lemon, apricot, spices. Flavor is slightly sour with some citrus and grassy notes. Overall this is refreshing and good.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

750ml bottle -

This one is definitely a very nice saison and the fact that it's got some brett in there to gobble up some extra sugar sure didn't hurt the complexity of the beer. When popped open the bottle, there was a little eruption of foam, but nothing over-the-top. Huge, fluffy head with minimal dissipation...clingy lacing all over the place. The aroma was alive with notes of lemon, pepper, orange zest, floral, bready and what I can only liken to smelling an empty sugar bag. The flavor seemed to match the aroma blow-for-blow with strong citrus flavors, lightly herbal, funk, peppercorns, wet leather and just a showing of alcohol. And to my suprise, the bottle was gone before I realized it. Light, full of flavor, never heavy and there just the right amount of complexity to keep my tastebuds in wanting more and more. Great beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Aroma is typical Belgian Yeast. The flavor is dry and the mouthfeel is very effervescent with a lasting head. While the beer is light and refreshing, it is somewhat unremarkable.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

A nice spicey, yeasty, brett smelling saison that I really liked at first whiff. Then you put it in your mouth and it's pretty average. Dry, thin, refreshing but one dimensional. It lives up to the billing but not much more, too light for me.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Woah! This one is part of the big head club. Pours a huge glass of foam with a foam head lol. The head is sudsy and lasts quite awhile. Golden yellow. Aroma is yeasty, grassy, zesty. Flavor is same along with honey and pepper. Clean dry finish.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours out in a cloudy golden appearance with a rich eruptive white head. Rounded funky yeast, dried oranges, mild lemon and and white pepper corn. Medium-bodied with with rounded fruity and still subtle funky notes of mild herbs, dried oranges, jasmine and mild coriander. Flavorful but really rounded edges. Mild funk, bananas, dried oranges and coriander in the chewy yet smooth aftertaste. A smooth but a very tasty Saison if there's such thing. Another intriguing Belgian-style offering from The Bruery.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottle from SL. Nice score for those guys, glad it made it East. The pour was golden to straw, hazy, nice white head, big enough to get the bottle into the glass in less than three pours. The aroma was wheat, pepper, light yeast. The flavor followed, the spicing almost seemed to have some cloves in there too, but the pepper zing was quite nice, slight on the flavor, good zing factor, though. Light fruits, Mouthfeel was moderate to full for the style, nice carbonation in the mix. Very well done, smooth drinker.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Sampled on 7/20/2010. This saison pours a medium orange gold color from a 750ml bottle. Medium to large sized white foamy head, with nice lacing and excellent retention. The aroma is citrusy and spicy, floral, herbal and spicy. A very floral beer, the aroma seem to explode from this beer, it might be just this particular bottle. I have had this beer several times, and I am not sure why I haven’t rated it till now. Medium to light bodied saison. The malts are fruity and sweet, lots of peach and apricot as well as some citrus. The hops are herbal and floral. Very lively carbonation. Yeasty and bright, with some brett, which sort of sneaks up on you, it is most noticeable in the crisp and dry finish. A very nice beer for a warm summer evening. Could almost be a good session saison. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is crisp and dry. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.