’tis the Saison

As my wife and co-blogger mentioned, we went out for dinner the other night without kids! For those too young to know, that’s a very exciting thing to us parental types.

In any event, I was pleased to note that the restaurant, already discussed in this post, had a number of beers from the Belgian farmhouse brewery Dupont, including the highly regarded Saison and the relatively rare Blond ale. In one of those rare moments of luck, I ordered the Saison Dupont, which was quite tasty, and my wife ordered the Foret Blond, which she preferred (and which I didn’t find on Dupont’s beer list). I thought the blond was a little bland, not to be punny about it. In any event, both were good.

Brewery Dupont is a bit of an oddity in the brewing world, in that it is one of those rare farmhouse breweries which remains more or less right where it started in 1844, in a farmhouse located in rural Belgium. In addition to traditional Belgian bottle-fermented ales, Dupont also has a range of organic beers. For those who will be in Belgium any time soon, there’s also a bakery and what they term a “cheese-makery.” Do we have a better word for that? In other words, they’re doing just about everything I’d want to do if I had a farmhouse and enough cash to sustain me.

In any event, I’ll be near Belgium next week, but doubt I’ll make it over for a tour, so I’ll just have to be satisfied with the beer for now. Dupont fans, try it and let me know what you think!

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