Brasserie de Franchimont - Chinelle Saison

Aroma initially dominated by prickling carbon dioxide but this fades quickly as usual, making room for impressions of warm white bread, freshly cut red apples, old orange peel, honey-glazed carrot, soggy rusk, pear juice, clove, sweetclover and a fortunately vague whiff of background DMS. Spritzy onset, very fizzily carbonated, estery fruitiness reminiscent of red apple, peach and banana, sweetish with a soft and 'fluffy' bready maltiness continuing this restrainedly sweetish effect towards a more spicy finish with the carbon dioxide still tingling along; notes of clove and even aniseed turn up, along with a floral and bit earthy hop bitter note and lots of lingering fruity and eventually somewhat 'dirty' yeastiness. Dryish in the end, with enough spritziness and spiciness to qualify as a (classically styled) saison, too bad for the heavy gushing though.