Super Saison

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2023 issue of Zymurgy Magazine

By Ryan Pachmayer

My introduction to super saison came years ago at the Bull & Bush Brewery Christmas party when I used some of my beer tokens on Brasserie Dupont’s Avec Les Bons Vœx. Dupont’s classic saison was one of my favorite beers, but I’d never tried this larger, 9.5% offering. The party was centered around vintage beer, and this version was about five years old.

From the first sip, I knew this would be a winner. The beer was strong, but not boozy. It had amplified characteristics of the classic saison, but it felt like a totally different beer. It was dry, yet rounded and infinitely complex. I bought several more samples that night and it became one of my fondest memories of the festival, next to some of the vintage Thomas Hardy’s and Samichlaus beers.

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